Mood disorders include depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. These types of psychiatric disorders affect a person’s emotions and may cause severe lows, called depression, and highs, called mania ...

Mental health professionals use the DSM to standardize the diagnosis and treatment processes for mental health conditions, including types of depression. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...

“Unspecified depressive disorder” is used when someone displays depressive symptoms, but there isn’t enough information for a specific diagnosis. Depressive symptoms can be complex and may not clearly ...

The word depressive comes from depress, stemming from the Latin depressare, meaning to “press down.” For example, we can press down on, or depress, a lever. Whenever you press a key or drive and step ...

Persistent depressive disorder is underdiagnosed, and many who suffer from it have never heard of it. By Christina Caron By the time Amanda Stern was in her mid-40s, she no longer suffered from ...

Depression and seasonal affective disorder (SAD) share similar symptoms, but depression can occur at any time of the year, while SAD follows a recurring seasonal pattern. For a SAD diagnosis, a person ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Caplyta (lumateperone) as an adjunctive therapy with antidepressants for the treatment of major depressive disorder in adults. This approval marks ...

Major depressive disorder with a seasonal pattern, also known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or the winter blues, is a commonly experienced during the winter months. Seasonal depression is not ...