Blog Post 6: Things that affects our mood

Every moods that we experienced in our daily lives has an specific cause or root, like for example I'm in a good mood, because I ate one of my favorite food today. I think that is one of the things that can affect our mood.

To know more about the things that can affect our moods here is one of the articles from the website "voices.yahoo.com" entitled "Factors that Affect Your Mood" by Reginald Herron that provide the important things that can affect our moods.

 

As what I have read to that article, she only give two important things that can affects our mood and how to deal with it. The first one is our body clocks, he said from the article that body clocks is "the way you respond to external cues such as daylight and darkness, temperature changes, and social cues, and body clocks regulate time-sensitive internal systems governing mood and performance."

It means that we need to know what are the right things that we will do, that our body needs it. And second is the food that we ate, I think that the most important things that can affect our mood because she said that "what we eat affects how we feel. Specific foods can react with chemicals in the brain to make us feel tired, depressed, anxious, or happy, alert, and energetic."

 

So I learned that even if it is few factors that she gave from that article, it is well explain that all of the things around us affects our mood especially our body clocks, it is important that you follow the regular sleeping time also eating three times a day because your body knows what is the right time to do it and if you did not do it like you skip your meal your mood will be affected and also some of components of our body and last is, it is important that you know what food you are allergic, that can increase alertness and mental energy, that can disrupt your nervous and more. To determine how your diet is affecting your mood and how to do that, by experimenting eating different meals at different times and varying food combinations and eliminate suspected bad mood foods and eat nutritious food that can help you to display a happy mood. 

Blog Post 5: Ways to get in a Good Mood

The idea of positive mood is a state of mood that we experience no stress or the cause of an happy events, situations or a happy moments in our daily lives. But this blog post focuses on ways to be in a good mood in different things and different situations or events that you may encounter. 

I think this article from the website "www.sparkpeople.com" entitled "15 Natural Mood Lifters" by Ellen G. Goldman shows different ways on how to be in a good mood or how to lift your mood in natural ways.

These are her some important advice "eat regularly, sleep regularly, indulge your senses like sights, smells, sounds, tastes and tactile sensations that can quickly change your mood, do something that brings you joy, hangout with your friends, and last is create a list of your own mood enhancers."
 

I think her article shows her opinion to help people to be in a good mood and for me I learned I lot of things in having and maintaining in a positive mood, but I think that is not all the things that can help us to be in a positive mood. It depends on us on how will you be in a positive mood in a particular situation of our life, that's why I conclude that every one of us, has our own ways of being in a good mood but I think the most common thing that we maintain is having a regular sleep and eating regularly to attain the normal mood.

Everyone of us can feel how to be in a good mood or in a bad mood anytime, anywhere with different kinds of reasons, but you want to know how to manage your mood? And these is the article for you.

In this article of Ken Makovsky from the website "www.forbes.com" entitled "Managing your mood".

He discuss about focus and staying positive all the time and he gives example like in a workplaces if you have consistent positive mood, you can easily think clearly, communicate to other people and builds confidence and calmness to creates a sense of balance surroundings to other people. He gives also the result of being in a good mood or in a bad mood to us and to other people that they can portray a good or bad expression and thoughts depending no your mood. So, to manage your mood is depending on the kind of mood you are in. For example, they are all in the good mood to have a party then you to be also in that mood.

That is why it is important to manage your mood and be in a consistent positive mood because it has benefit to you and to other people like you'll be more active, happier, and being example to other people that being in a positive mood will lead you to have better living unlike being in a bad mood always you will only feel down and it can lead to mood disorder

 

Blog Post 4: Mood Disorders

Do you know what is mood disorder is? or what is the cause of having mood disorder? or have you experience having a mood disorder?

I think this article from the website "www.nasponline.org" by  Ralph E. (Gene) Cash, PhD, NCSP & Katherine C. Cowan entitled "Mood Disorders: What Parents and Teachers Should Know" will answers all that questions.

That "Mood disorders are mental disorders characterized by periods of depression, sometimes alternating with periods of elevated mood."

And I learned that it is most common mental health problems experienced by children and adolescents. And it is said that mood disorder can lead you to serious academic and behavior problems, possible school failure, extreme irritability, substance abuse, very risky or self-injurious behaviors, or even suicide.

Now, because of that article, I learned that mood disorder is one of the most common mental health problems that can anyone experience that can also lead serious academic and behavioral problems but having a mood disorder is not so vital and severe if only treated it immediately and you know how to control and react to the things around you.

Luckily, I learned that mood disorders are treatable and can be cure, because I found one article from "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov" by Russell T. Joffe entitled "Treating mood disorders". 

He explained it well that "Mood disorders, bipolar and unipolar, are common and cause an enormous burden of suffering. Treatment of acute episodes and, more particularly, incomplete treatment of acute episodes, address only one component of the long-term suffering of our patients."

 

It means that treatment to these symptoms are not easy and it takes time to improve one's mood disorder, because all the treatments that are conducted to it, aims for complete resolution of the mood disorder to serve our patients best by reducing not only their current symptoms, but also their future likelihood of recurrence.

 

I conclude that mood disorder are treatable it depend on what kind of disorder, like minor episodes of illness, minor depression or hypomania and subsyndromal manic or depressive symptoms, those illness are part of acute treatment and major mood disorder like depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder and bipolar disorder are need to treat well or immediately consult to a doctor, if you feel an abnormal feeling or your mood extremely changed in only a short period of time, that shows you need an specialist that will help you to overcome your mood disorder and maintain a balance mood in the future. But even only by yourself you can maintain a balance mood by knowing the things that gives you enjoyment and comfort.

 

Blog Post 3: Difference between Mood and Emotion

When we heard the word mood it is something connected to emotions and personality, but are moods and personality really the same? And what are their differences?

To be more clear and not get confused of personalities and moods here is one of the article posted by Tami Port in the website "www.suite101.com" entitled "Difference between Personality & Mood Disorder" that explain and verify the personality and mood are not the same but has a connection.

The writer said that "Personality and mood are sometimes misinterpreted as having the same meaning. This confusion often contributes to a consequent misunderstanding of the mental disorders of personality and mood." 

As what I have read to this article that mood is an general thought of having positive and negative emotional feelings like being excited, happy, gloomy, assertive, cheerful and more. And personality are combined and consistent patterns of emotion, thought and behavior that make an individual unique .

My conclusion to that is temperament or personality traits are different from mood. However, personality and mood do affect one another, because people with optimistic personalities are more likely to display an upbeat or happy mood and people with pessimistic or insecure personality traits may be more likely to exhibit a depressed mood. Nevertheless, personality traits such as optimism and neuroticism predispose certain types of moods. So it is connected and related to each other.

To avoid being in a bad mood here is the article from "www.scientificamerican.com" entitled "How Your Moral Decisions are Shaped by a Bad Mood" by Travis Riddle.

It says that "moods could influence the thought process itself"

It means that mood could also be bias in our thoughts resulting in different patterns of moral thinking. That's why I learned that it affects each other also like our personality, emotions and feelings because positive moods validate accessible thoughts, and negative moods invalidate accessible thoughts. For example a person who in a positive mood are more likely to feel as though this is an acceptable behavior and negative mood has a parallel effect,  it is like the opposite of negative mood.

So my advise is having and being in a good mood is the best thing to maintain the balance of having a right and good morals because being in a bad mood can turn you to a  unpleasant behavior or depress.

Blog Post 2 : What is Mood Swing?

I think our mood is not only stick and stay always in one mood state like always being in a good mood or in a bad mood but it also change, sometimes fast, sometimes not quick, and sometimes extremely change and I think that's we call mood swing.

And it is explained in this article I have read from the website "www.psychcentral.com" entitled "All about Mood of Swing" by John M. Grohol, Psy.D.

That "mood swing is a part of mood where your mood easily change. Example for that is, a one person feel happy and excited then a little while his/her mood changed and became frustrated, depressed or angry. This mood swing is common to a person who has mood disorders and also it is a common symptoms of premenstrual syndrome and pregnancy."

It explains there the literal meaning of mood swing, that it is an extreme or rapid change of mood. Such mood swings can play a positive part in promoting problem solving and in producing flexible forward planning. However, when mood swings are so strong that they are disruptive, they may be the main part of a manic depressive or bipolar disorder.

Mood swings are universal, varying from the microscopic to the wild oscillations of manic depression, so that a continuum can be traced from normal struggles around self-esteem, through cyclothymia, up to a depressive disease. However most people's mood swings remain in the mild to moderate range of emotional ups and downs.

So my conclusion to that is having a mood swing is not bad, because it is the natural part of our lives facing any particular situation but if it is disruptive or strong it can lead to serious health problems like mood disorder.

         
What triggers our mood swing? I think this article from "www.webmd.com" entitled "Mood Swings and Bipolar Disorder" reviewed by Joseph Goldberg.

Shows that many different things affects and trigger mood swings, like unhealthy diet or life style, drug abuse or hormonal imbalance and other improper living activities. A person that has a problem with sleep patterns , self-esteem, concentration, or even improper eating habit can be sign of an oncoming mood disorder. Because of that I knew the major cause of mood swings is hyperactivity sometimes accompanied by inattentiveness, symptoms associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. If the mood swing is not associated with a mood disorder, treatments are harder to assign. However, mood swings are the result of dealing with stressful and/or unexpected situations in daily life.

My conclusion is mood  rapidly change because of thinking too much that you forgot many things and sometimes you can't sleep because of many things that troubling to your mind, but take care of yourself and be wise to manage your task, don't take things very serious and be responsible in every situation that you encounter in our daily lives to have a balance and a good mood. And people having a mood swing or rapid change in their mood is not bad, because these are natural part of people's lives and this is only the result of dealing with stressful and/or unexpected situations in daily life.