1. Mood Disorders

2. Mood Disorders
Psychological Disorders characterized by emotional extremes.
Dysthymic Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Bipolar Disorder

3. Depression The common cold of psychological disorders.
It is like a warning that something is wrong.

4. Depression

5. Depression

6. Major Depressive Disorder
A person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more weeks of depressive moods.
Includes feelings of worthlessness and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities.

7. Dysthymic Disorder
Suffering from mild depression every day for at least two years.

8. Seasonal Affective Disorder
During winter time, people often go to work when its dark, and come home when its dark.
Darkness = depression.

9. Bipolar Disorder
Person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.

10. Bipolar Is not the same as “multiple personalities.”
1 person who swings through a manic and depressed state of mind.
Manic- happy or over excitement

11. Bipolar Brain

12. Suicide

13. Suicide