the degree of impairment is judged severe enough to warrant a diagnosis.
no. depression is a mood disorder.
Mood Disorder
There is no such thing as manic depressive behavior.Manic depression (more correctly called bipolar disorder) has a characteristic collection of mood related symptoms and is thus a mood disorder.
It could just be depression.
They alternate between depression (the "low" mood) and mania or hypomania (the "high" mood). These patients go from depression to a frenzied, abnormal elevation in mood.
Depression is feeling sad and defective for no good reason. Manic depression is a mood disorder which combines this feeling along with the opposite mood in a cyclic "mood swing." The opposite of depression is mania. Mania makes you feel elated and invincible. Manic depression now know as Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder characterized by periods of mania and depression. With MD you sometimes feel euphoric and others you feel depressed and hopeless. With depression you feel like this all the time.
Cyclothymia is the disorder that consists of mood swings from moderate depression to hypomania and lasts two years or more.
The most common forms of mood disorders fall into the range of depression.
I have bipolar 2 and according to what I have read, yes bipolar is the same as an organic mood disorder. There is two types of organic mood disorders, those that involve depression only and those that involve bipolar. Bipolar involves periods of depression and periods of mania.
A mood disorder is a mental health condition characterized by persistent changes in mood, such as depression or mania. These mood changes can significantly impact a person's emotional state, energy levels, and daily functioning. Mood disorders include conditions like major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and cyclothymic disorder.
Manic Depression is now referred to as bipolar disorder and is characterised by mood episodes. So they last at least 4 days. They also must have 'hi' manic episodes/hypomanic episodes (Type 2 bipolar) and 'low' depressions. These moods can last anywhere from days, to weeks, to months. And there is periods of normal functioning inbetween Borderline Personality Disorder has mood swing too, but they tend to last hours. More what you would typically describe as a mood swing.
Bipolar depression refers to frequent mood changes between depression and mania, the focal point of Unipolar depression is the negative emotions and feelings that an affected individual experiences. The unipolar indicates that the depression does not alter between the two mood states.