Mood Disorders

Johns Hopkins Medicine defines a mood disorder as “a mental health class that health professionals use to broadly describe all types of depression and bipolar disorders. Many factors contribute to mood disorders. They are likely caused by an imbalance of brain chemicals. Life events may also contribute to a depressed mood. Mood disorders also tend to run in families.” 

Here are the common types of mood disorder:

• Major depression
• Bipolar disorder - when a person has periods of depression alternating with periods of elevated mood
• Dythymia - chronic low-grade depressed or irritable mood that last for 2 years
• Mood disorder related to another health condition
• Substance-induced mood disorder