Mood and Personality Disorders

• Mood Disorders: experience extreme or inappropriate emotions.
• Major Depression: unhappy for at least two weeks with no apparent cause. Depression is the common cold of psychological disorder.
• Dysthymic Disorder: suffering from mild depression during the winter months. Based not on temperature, but on amount of sunlight.
• Bipolar Disorder: formally manic depression. Involves periods of depression and manic episodes. Manic episodes involve feelings of high energy.
• Personality Disorders: well-established maladaptive ways of behaving that negatively affect people's ability to function. Dominates their personality.
• Antisocial Personality Disorder: rely too much on the attention and help of others.
• Histrionic Personality Disorder: needs to be the center of attention.
• Narcissistic Personality Disorder: having an unwarranted sense of self-importance. Thinking that you are the center of the universe.