Them major types of mood disorders come depression (or unipolar depression) & bipolar disorder.

Depression (or unipolar depression), including subtypes: Major Depression Major Depression (Perennial) Major Depression sustaining psychotic symptoms (psychotic depression) Dysthymia Postpartum depression

Bipolar disorder, a mood disorder described by alternating periods of mania and depression (& around a few events rapid cycling, mixed states, and psychotic symptoms). Subtypes include: Bipolar I Bipolar II Cyclothymia

Schizoaffective disorder is a somewhat vaguely defined term which describe patients world health organization indicate illness of two schizophrenia and one of the mood disorders.

There are too forms of mood disorder which are then specific to women, related to physiologic cases like pregnancy, giving birth or the menopause - these include Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder and Postpartum Depression.

A typically accepted definitions one terms may be witnessed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Virtually completely head-shrinker imagine that all mood disorders come someways related, each symptomatically & biochemically, as a a share of one spectrum of disorders. Still, occasionally shrink claim that bipolar disorder may actually be biochemically nearer to schizophrenia than (unipolar) depression.