Mood Disorder

Mood disorder conditions have two major groups: depressive disorders and bipolar disorders, affect people emotionally. You may constantly feel sad or may be anxious. If you have bipolar disorder, you’ll likely have extreme mood swings ranging from being very sad, empty to being very happy.

Depressive Disorder

Depressive disorders cause loss of pleasure in most or all activities and ultimately affect your quality of life. You could have less energy, trouble sleeping, trouble concentrating, changes in appetite and lack interest. You also could have feelings of worthlessness or guilt and be in pain and tired. When you are depressed, you may feel sad or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities.

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder, formerly named manic depression, is a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings ranging from emotional highs (mania or hypomania episode) to lows (depression episodes). When depressed, you feel sad or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities. When your mood shifts to mania or hypomania, you feel euphoric, full of energy or unusually irritable. These mood swings can affect sleep, energy, activity, judgment, behavior and the ability to think clearly. Episodes of mood swings may occur rarely or multiple times a year.

You can manage mood swings and other symptoms by following a treatment plan, medications, and psychological counseling (psychotherapy).