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Depressive disorders

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It is perfectly normal for your moods to vary throughout your life and it is even healthy to feel different emotions depending on the events you are experiencing: being angry because of an injustice, feeling sad when hearing some bad news, being excited about your future vacation etc. A mood disorder is a mental illness that changes your mood and the emotions you feel.

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If you have a mood disorder such as depression, you will tend to feel mainly negative emotions (more sadness, guilt, shame, anger, boredom), as if a filter had been set up between your perception and your environment, and to downplay, or even hide, the positive emotions and events you are actually experiencing.
 
To speak of a mood disorder, the intensity of the various symptoms must cause great level of pain and impact the functioning of the person in the various spheres of his or her life (school, work, relationships with others, leisure activities, etc.).

 

 

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