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Mood Disorders Learning Center
When you're talking about a mood disorder, you may be just trying to classify 1 of the 3 major areas of psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric disorders ...
What is bipolar disorder? William Lawson: Bipolar disorder is probably a group of disorders but we like to look at it as one disorder that's characte...
Bipolar illnesses comprise of depressive episodes, as well as, distinct manic episodes. And briefly in a manic episode it can be thought short hand a...
So bipolar 1 disorder includes depressive episodes and also manic episodes which are the full extreme of the elevated moods. Individuals have limitle...
Technically speaking, Season Affective Disorder is not a separate diagnosis but is actually one of the sub-types of Major Depressive Disorder. But, f...
That very first thing I want to emphasize is that in individuals who have poor disorder generally are going to require treatment. The extremes of man...
The question about who takes depression medication is complicated because the terminology can be so confusing. Medications that are called anti-depre...
Major Depressive Disorder, also known as Clinical Depression, is one of the main illnesses that psychiatrists deal with. And it's not simply a matter...
So depression and anxiety are two of the most common experiences that people have and two of the most common reasons that people come into treatment....
There's a lot of confusions surrounding what a Mixed Episode is and let me start out by saying that according to the Diagnostic manual somebody who h...
Female Speaker: There are about 23 million people in the United States who are estimated to have been, diagnosed or living with a mood disorder of so...
This is a good example of how confusing terminology causes a lot of problems in understanding different aspects of psychiatric treatment. Why would y...
There are a few different things to understand about this question. First of all, there's a problem with terminology in understanding exactly what on...
I want to start off by clarifying that it is difficult to talk about any category of medication as a whole because within every category there is gon...
Friends often ask me, what things can they do to help preserve their mental health. And I have them go back to the basics, which are diet, sleep, and...
Because suicide is so final and so tragic, it's very important for psychiatrists to err on the side of safety. But I want to talk about the fact that...
