Mood disorder has become a bit of a generic term when discussing mental health. A person with any sort of emotional or psychological difficulty — generalized anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, phobias, etc. — may be described as having a mood disorder. But in reality, the term mood disorder refers to one of two specific conditions: depression or Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression).
Depression is certainly well known, if not actually understood. Many people refer to feeling sad or disappointed as being depressed. This is a factually incorrect description. Depression is, in part, a chronic change in ones mood, outlook, or behavior. Normal sadness and disappointment dont linger on for weeks at a time.
Bipolar Disorder is a swing between feeling euphoric mania, and major depression. Bipolar Disorder can have a severe impact on the lives of people inflicted with it, as the euphoric mania stage sometimes results in excessive, irresponsible behavior — spending a great deal of money unwisely, for instance, or inappropriately interjecting oneself into certain situations — while the major depressive stage can leave a person almost completely...
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