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1 . The American Psychiatric Association (APA ) has created a manual to classify different kinds of psychological diss . The publication is known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Diss or DSM (Morris and Maisto , 2002 ,

. 518 . Since its fourth revision in 1994 , it has become known as DSM-IV . There are various diagnostic categories listed in DSM-IV , one of which is the mood diss . As the term implies , mood dis refers to differences in an individual 's emotional state (Morris and Maisto , 2002 ,

. 520 . Mood diss were

previously known as affective diss (Butcher , Mineka and Hooley 2007 ,

.226 . Individuals have a wide breath of emotions , from happiness to sadness , energetic to being subdued , depending on the situation However , in individuals suffering from mood diss , these emotional ranges seem to be restricted to one emotion- either constantly happy or sad . Or the individual can experience mood swings , wherein he / she go through mood alternates , from extreme sadness bouncing to intense happiness

A common kind of mood dis is depression (Butcher , Mineka and Hooley , 2007 ,

. 226 . People in a state of depression experience overwhelming sadness to the point of losing interest in people activities and feeling worthless . People sometimes get depressed especially after a gloomy encounter , like a death of a loved one or even just the end of a relationship this is normal . However , clinically depressed individuals experience depressions on a deeper level that sometimes they become suicidal , to the point on wanting to end...

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