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Mood Disorders: Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Risk, and Suicide Prevention

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Summary

Mood disorders involve severe disturbances in mood and emotion that can affect how a person thinks, feels, and functions. This lesson introduces the main categories of mood disorders and explains the defining features and course of major depressive disorder.

Everyone experiences changes in mood. Feeling sad after a loss or excited after good news is a normal response to life events. Mood disorders are different: mood changes are more extreme or persistent, distort a person's outlook, and interfere with functioning in relationships, work, education, or self-care.

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What is a mood disorder?
A disorder involving severe mood disturbances that can distort outlook and interfere with functioning.
What is anhedonia in depression?
Reduced interest or pleasure in activities that were previously enjoyable.
What are the central features of major depressive disorder (MDD)?
Depressed mood and/or markedly reduced interest or pleasure in activities.
What does it mean that MDD is episodic?
Symptoms may be intense for a period and later lessen, though they can recur or persist.
How can MDD affect a person's life?
It can impair work, education, relationships, self-care, and physical health.

Quiz questions

  1. What distinguishes a mood disorder from ordinary mood fluctuations?Answer: The disturbance is severe or persistent enough to impair functioning or distort outlook.
  2. What minimum duration for depressed mood and/or reduced interest is described for an MDD diagnosis?Answer: At least two weeks.
  3. What history is central to the bipolar disorder diagnosis described in these notes?Answer: At least one manic episode.
  4. What is associated with a greater likelihood of future depressive episodes?Answer: A history of previous depressive episodes.
  5. What does the seasonal-pattern specifier describe?Answer: Depressive episodes linked to a particular season and improving at other times.

Based on Psychology 2e by Rose M. Spielman, William J. Jenkins, Marilyn D. Lovett (OpenStax), licensed CC BY 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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