Mood Disorders
Mood disorders primarily affect your emotional state. They can cause persistent and intense sadness, elation and/or anger. Mood disorders can include diagnosis such as depression and bipolar disorders.
This category of mental illness impacts on affect and mood resulting in difficulties around motivation, low or manic moods, exacerbated moods and impulsiveness. Functional complications involved with mood disorders can include getting out of bed, engaging in self cares or self management tasks and maintaining routines/ organisation.
Depression involves a depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities for long periods of time. It is different from regular mood changes and low feelings about everyday life. It can impact all aspects of life, including relationships with family, friends and community. It can also result in an inability to leave the bed, excessive crying and self neglect.
Depression
Bipolar Affective Disorder causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration. These shifts can make it difficult to carry out day-to-day tasks. Different types of Bipolar Affective Disorder will impact a person differently, requiring alternative types of interventions to manage their symptoms.
Functional limitations of Bipolar Affective Disorder might include excessive spending, bizarre behaviours that may cause reputation damage and/or risk to harm of self or suicide.