Mood Issues
Mood Issues
Anger
Anger is a feeling of displeasure or hostility. Anger is your body’s warning system telling you something is wrong. It is a natural response to a threat but can be destructive when expressed inappropriately. Anger has several components:
1) a physiological response,
2) a psychological response,
3) a cognitive or mental response.
1) a physiological response,
2) a psychological response,
3) a cognitive or mental response.
Anxiety
Everyone feels anxious from time to time; before meeting a deadline or delivering a presentation. But an anxiety disorder is a constant and exaggerated sense of worry that interferes with your daily life and interrupts your sleep.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder is an illness that affects thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behavior. A person with this disorder experiences moods that shift from high (mania-severely elevated) to low (depression-sadness and hopelessness) and back again in varying degrees of severity (the two poles of the disorder are mania and depression). It is also known as “manic depression” or “manic-depressive illness”.
Depression
Clinical depression impacts all aspects of everyday life including eating, sleeping, working, relationships, and how a person thinks about himself/herself. People who are depressed cannot simply will themselves to feel better or just “snap out of it.”
Medications
Medications have a wide variety of uses in psychiatry. The gold standard for treatment of major depression is medications and therapy. There are four major classifications of medications used in psychiatry. They include the antidepressants, mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, and anti-anxiety medications.
PTSD
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that can develop after a trauma where the person experienced or witnessed a terrifying event that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury. The symptoms (intense fear, helplessness, etc.) persist for over one month, cause significant distress, and cause impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Stress Management
Stress is an umbrella term which is used to describe our reactions to all the pressures which affect our lives. Sources of stress can be joyful events such as a new job, a promotion, a wedding or moving to a new city. They also include unhappy events like a death, diagnosis of illness, a car accident, or an arrest.
Talking to a counselor or therapist can help you cope with the effects of generalized anxiety disorder.