Mood disorder questionnaire

Mood disorder is gradually becoming common phenomena in today's time. Let's explore more about it.

Mood disorder

Usually we all experience feeling and emotions. Feelings and emotion are the common concepts in the world of mental health.

We do not experience same kind of feelings and emotions, in every situation, we feel ups and down in that and sometimes its intensity also varies e.g., feeling of being pushed in the crowd of train or bus and someone pushed you in public by speaking insulting words, in both the situation intensity of the anger emotion is different.

So change in the feelings and emotions is common, but when feelings and emotions become out of control then it will be hard to adjust with.

When the emotions of an individual become harmful for himself and for the society at that we can say that person is having mood disorder.

In DSM-V mood disorders are explained under the title Bipolar and Depressive disorder.

Among all mood disorders we will get detailed information about Unipolar and Bipolar disorders.

(a) Bipolar-I disorder

Bipolar-I disorder is known as depressive disorder. The main symptom of this disorder is depression.

If the symptoms like reduction in the physical needs like hunger and sleep, reduction of weight more than 10 kg within three months (without any medicine or physical strain), sleep disturbance, lack of libido, lake of interest, reduction in feeling of joy, experience of uselessness, suicidal tendency etc. are seen in the behavior of a person for at least two weeks then we can say that, a person is suffering from Bipolar-I disorder.

(b) Bipolar-II disorder

In Bipolar-II disorder both depressed and maniac emotions are simultaneously experienced by the patient. In this disorder mild mania is already experienced by the person, in which a person becoming more irritating.

But changes in his nature does not obstacle in his social and occupational responsibility and he is not required to get hospitalized. So this symptoms not known as symptoms of the disorder. It gradually turns from mild to moderate.

A person becomes impatient and unable to concentrate on one thing for a longer period of time. When mania and depression both disorders are experienced at different time intervals, it is known as Bipolar-Ii disorder.