{"id":119801,"date":"2020-07-16T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/?p=119801"},"modified":"2023-03-15T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:35:12","slug":"mood-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harleytherapy.co.uk\/counselling\/mood-disorders.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mood Disorders – Do Any of These Sound Familiar?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By: Jeremy Noble<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

by Andrea M. Darcy<\/span><\/p>\n

Not yourself lately? Or feel all over the place?<\/strong> Mood disorders are treatable conditions that many of us experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is a mood disorder?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Mood disorders are pretty much what they sound like. <\/span><\/p>\n

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They are a group of mental health diagnoses<\/a> were the main issue is changes to how you feel that don’t match what is going on around you. These make day-to-day life a challenge, or, in a worst case scenario, leave you suicidal<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also referred to as<\/strong> \u2018mood affective disorders\u2019, you probably know a few already, like depression<\/a>, bipolar disorder<\/a>, and seasonal affective disorder (SAD)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The classification of mood affective disorders<\/h2>\n

Mood disorders are described and diagnosed in slightly different ways, depending on<\/strong> what country you live in and what diagnostic manual is being used. And the way they are classified has seen a lot of changes of late.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

America has their own manual<\/strong>, the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders” (DSM)<\/a>. <\/span>In the previous version, the DSM-IV, mood disorders formed their own section. <\/span><\/p>\n

The latest version the DSM-V, however, has done away with the section<\/strong>, making separate sections for ‘bipolar disorders’ and ‘depressive disorders’. And they have taken out ‘mood disorder not otherwise specified’. This means a psychiatrist<\/a> has to slot you under bipolar or depressive, even if your symptoms are ambiguous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The rest of the world tends to use the<\/strong> World Health Organisation’s “International Classification of Diseases” (ICD)<\/a>. This is currently in the process of being updated from version ICD-1o to ICD-11, so we may see changes there, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the governing body which puts out the guides for diagnoses that most UK health practitioners use, avoids this confusion entirely. It doesn’t even use the category ‘mood affective disorder’. It instead chooses to recognise and advise on each mental health condition separately.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Common mood disorders<\/span><\/h2>\n

There are certainly a lot of mood disorders, if you take into account subsets and variations.<\/strong><\/p>\n