Recovery and mood disorders

Self-Management Strategies in Recovery From Mood and Anxiety Disorders

Mood and anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental disorders. People with such disorders implement self-management strategies to reduce or prevent their symptoms and to optimize their health and well-being. Even though self-management strategies are known to be essential to recovery, few researchers have examined them. The aim of this study is to explore strategies used by people recoveri...

MOOD DISORDERS AND MEDICAL ILLNESS Mood Disorders and Allostatic Load

The brain controls both the physiologic and the behavioral coping responses to daily events as well as major stressors, and the nervous system is itself a target of the mediators of those responses through circulating hormones. The amygdala and hippocampus interpret what is stressful and regulate appropriate responses. The amygdala becomes hyperactive in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and...

Chronobiology and mood disorders

The clinical observations of diurnal variation of mood and early morning awakening in depression have been incorporated into established diagnostic systems, as has the seasonal modifier defining winter depression (seasonal affective disorder, SAD). Many circadian rhythms measured in depressive patients are abnormal: earlier in timing, diminished in amplitude, or of greater variability. Whether ...

Managing mood disorders and comorbid personality disorders.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW To examine the influence of personality disorder comorbidity on the general treatment of mood disorders. RECENT FINDINGS Personality disorders generally have a negative influence on outcome of mood disorders, both unipolar and bipolar. When the personality features are addressed, however, the outcome is less negative. Recent studies suggest a special role for psychological a...

Perinatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders