definitely an unpleasant condition. non-pleasurable mood with hallucinations and/or disordered thoughts.
Whenever a sentence begins with 'if', 'because', 'when', or 'for', a comma must be used at the end of the first phrase of the sentence. In this case, the first phrase happens to be a simple two-word participial phrase and would be punctuated thusly: "In addition, the more severe forms of mood disorders may include psychotic features."
Robin Edward Gearing has written: 'Developing a risk-model of time to first-relapse for children and adolescents with primary psychotic disorders or mood disorders with psychotic features'
Severe mental disorders require treatment with medications plus therapy. For severe mood and psychotic disorders, medications plus therapy make for a lifesaving combination, especially when the symptoms of mental illness culminate in suicidal ideation and/or psychotic thinking.
anti-psychotic drug
No it is not a mood elevator, though it is frequently prescribed in conjunction with mood elevaters for people with Bipolar Affective Disorder who experience severe manias. Oleanz is a trade name for the neuroleptic (anti-psychotic) drug Olanzapine, when it is sold in Chile, Peru, India and Burma. It is most often refered to by the orignal brand name it was issued under, Zyprexa.
No, they are not. As you can probably guess, psychotic disorders are much more severe that psychological disorders. Psychotic disorders usually involve delusions, hallucinations, etc. While, psychological disorders are disorders such as OCD and OCPD that involve different compulsions and rituals but nothing delusional.
No. Anxiety and schizophrenia are two different disorders. Anxiety is neurotic, and schizophrenia is psychotic. Although at times anxiety in severe cases can lead to losing touch with reality ( severe anxiety ) it can never lead to a psychotic disorder like schizophrenia.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder has many symptoms associated with the disorder. Some of these symptoms include mood swings, irritability, change in appetite, and sleep problems.
Severe mood swings can be a sign of a brain tumor but this is not likely. A brain tumor can show many symptoms, or none at all. Seeing a doctor is key.
3% of Australians are affected by psychotic illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar mood disorder at some point in their life. taken from http://www.mindframe-media.info/site/index.cfm?display=85541
bipolar disorder
The term Psychosis includes many disease like Schizophrenia, MDP, Maniac, Depression etc the main features in general being lack of insight, presence of hallucinations and delusions, and mood swings. The drugs have to be individualized based on the condition and the severity. No one drug can be pinpointed as the best.