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.