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Mood Disorders
According to the DSM 4, the manuel used by Mental Health professionals to diagnose individuals, a Mood Disorder refers to any period of time when an individual feels abnormally happy or sad. Included under Mood Disorder is Major Depression, and Bipolar Disorder.
Major Depression is characterized by feeling “unhappy,” or “down in the dumps.” When someone is depressed, they may feel loss of pleasure, lost appetite and weight, trouble sleeping, or eats and sleeps more than usual. The person may feel fatigue, or loss of energy, agitated, trouble concentrating, thoughts of death and suicide. Depressed people may suffer from crying spells, phobias, obsessions and compulsions, feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, or worthlessness. Some people start to have Panic Attacks, lose contact with reality, and develop delusions or hallucinations.
While some people with depression seek help, others turn to alcohol and drugs to feel better. CBT has been shown to work just as good as anti depressants in lifting the depression of many people. CBT focuses on the self downing thoughts (inner dialogue) that cause people to depress themselves. For example: if you tell yourself that you are worthless, helpless, and hopeless, then those thoughts will directly effect your mood, and make you feel sad.
Read more on Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder.
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety can be reduced down to 2 thoughts; fear of something ‘bad’ happening in the future, and fear of not being able to handle that ‘bad’ thing. Anxiety Disorders include: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Agoraphobia (fear of situations or places), and Social Phobia. In Generalized Anxiety Disorder, many people are “aware, vigilant, and expecting” something bad to happen to them. They look and feel nervous “most of the time,” and admit maintaining this state is exhausting. Individuals who suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder are expecting something “bad” to happen, although they are not sure what this bad thing is, so they are always on alert for it. These individuals fear that if this “bad” thing happens they might not be able to deal with it.
Read more on Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Agoraphobia, Social Phobia.
Personality Disorders
Personality Disorders manifest in a combination of symptoms. These symptoms include, anxiety, depression, anger, rage, fear of abandonment, anti-social behavior, manic, grandiose, narcissism, paranoia, avoidance, inappropriate affect (feelings), impulsively, dependent, and ruminations. Included under personality disorders are Borderline Personality Disorder, and Anti-Social Personality Disorder.
In Borderline Personality Disorder, the client suffers from an unstable life that has often included recurrent suicide threats or attempts, intense and inappropriate anger, feeling empty or being bored and frantically trying to avoid abandonment. These individuals are uncertain of who they are, and lack the ability to maintain stable interpersonal relationships.
Read more on Borderline Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Schizoid Personality Disorder .