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Mood Disorders

Palmetto Behavioral Health Treats Mood DisordersIn and given year, about 7 percent of Americans suffer from mood disorder.

Major Depressive Disorder. Major depressive disorder features one or more major depressive episodes each of which lasts at least 2 weeks.. Since these episodes are also characteristic of bipolar disorder, the term “major depression” refers to both major depressive disorder and the depression of bipolar disorder.

Dysthymia. Dysthymia is a chronic form of depression. Its early onset and unrelenting, “smoldering” course are among the features that distinguish it from major depressive disorder. Dysthymia becomes so intertwined with a person’s self-concept or personality that the individual may be misidentified as “neurotic” (resulting from unresolved early conflicts expressed through unconscious personality defenses or character disorders)

Bipolar Disorders. Bipolar disorder is a recurrent mood disorder featuring one or more episodes of mania or mixed episodes of mania and depression. Bipolar disorder is distinct from major depressive disorder by virtue of a history of manic or hypomanic (milder and not psychotic) episodes.

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Did you know...there is a cluster of mental disorders best recognized by depression or mania. Mood disorders are outside the bounds of normal fluctuations from sadness to elation. They have potentially severe consequences for morbidity and mortality. Palmetto helps patients deal with these disorders every day.

People have been plagued by disorders of mood for all of recorded history. One of the earliest terms for depression, “melancholy,” literally meaning “black bile,” dates back to Hippocrates.