{"id":663,"date":"2021-03-13T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:25:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:25:04","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-depression-and-bad-mood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stop-depression-info.com\/blog\/what-is-the-difference-between-depression-and-bad-mood\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between depression and bad mood?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Very often people, being in a&nbsp;bad mood, call their state&nbsp;depression, and&nbsp;not&nbsp;necessarily because they want to deliberately exaggerate their psycho-emotional state.&nbsp;In the&nbsp;understanding of the common man in the street,&nbsp;<strong>bad mood&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>depression are&nbsp;<\/strong>identical.&nbsp;But we&nbsp;must not forget that depressive disorder&nbsp;is a disease that a&nbsp;<strong>psychotherapist&nbsp;<\/strong>must observe and&nbsp;treat.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to tell a bad mood from depression?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A bad mood&nbsp;<\/strong>manifests itself in a&nbsp;feeling of depression, sadness, slight irritation&nbsp;&#8211; this is a normal human condition associated with a&nbsp;reaction to&nbsp;stressful situations.&nbsp;Therefore, there is nothing to worry about when it lasts for several days.&nbsp;But&nbsp;in the&nbsp;case when the mood decline becomes prolonged,&nbsp;it becomes an alarming call and a&nbsp;reason to seek&nbsp;help from a&nbsp;specialist.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be borne in mind that the depressive state is characterized by the following points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>mood disorder;<\/li><li>disorders in the&nbsp;vegetative system;&nbsp;<\/li><li>asthenic disorder.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Depression is characterized by sharp mood swings&nbsp;towards lowered&nbsp;mood&nbsp;,&nbsp;<strong>apathy&nbsp;<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>blues&nbsp;<\/strong>, anxiety, nervousness.&nbsp;Panic attacks are not uncommon, which mark the peak of anxiety and&nbsp;the fact that depression develops into a&nbsp;very acute&nbsp;<strong>mental disorder&nbsp;<\/strong>.&nbsp;From&nbsp;panic attacks and&nbsp;nervousness, a depressive disorder can find its manifestation in a&nbsp;state when a person&nbsp;cannot do anything, his movements are inhibited, it is hard for him to think, to concentrate on&nbsp;some work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Depression also&nbsp;<\/strong>affects&nbsp;your&nbsp;overall physical condition.&nbsp;If the examination&nbsp;does not&nbsp;reveal signs of any disease, then the&nbsp;physical ailment is of the&nbsp;same nature as&nbsp;mood disorders.&nbsp;Here depression manifests itself in&nbsp;changes in blood pressure, temperature, headaches, loss or stimulation of appetite, decreased libido.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With regard to the asthenic component of a depressive disorder,&nbsp;depression manifests itself in&nbsp;irritability, sleep disorders, constant fatigue, often in&nbsp;connection with&nbsp;this, a diagnosis&nbsp;of chronic fatigue syndrome&nbsp;(CFS) is made.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depression has an&nbsp;extreme point&nbsp;in&nbsp;its development, which speaks of the&nbsp;severity of a person&#8217;s mental state&nbsp;&#8211; thoughts about&nbsp;existential problems: the meaninglessness and&nbsp;aimlessness of life, an obsessive suicidal mood, with&nbsp;subsequent plans for&nbsp;suicide.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that in&nbsp;psychiatry there is such a thing as&nbsp;dysthymia&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>chronic depression&nbsp;<\/strong>.&nbsp;This diagnosis is made&nbsp;when the symptoms of depression last for more than two years.&nbsp;As a rule, it has a cyclical occurrence with a&nbsp;high frequency of manifestation of a complex of symptoms of a depressive disorder.&nbsp;All the symptoms of depression in the&nbsp;complex are the&nbsp;same full-fledged symptoms of the disease, as, for example, in the&nbsp;flu.&nbsp;Depression has&nbsp;primarily an existential basis, affecting not&nbsp;only the physical state, but&nbsp;also&nbsp;an acute, stable psycho-emotional state.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From&nbsp;all of the above, the following alarming signs can be distinguished:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>changes in appetite;<\/li><li>insomnia or persistent drowsiness;<\/li><li>feeling empty and&nbsp;tired;&nbsp;<\/li><li>trouble&nbsp;concentrating, restlessness;&nbsp;<\/li><li>obsessive sense of meaninglessness, not the&nbsp;ability to get satisfaction from your&nbsp;favorite activities;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>thoughts of&nbsp;suicide.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In the&nbsp;case of the above listed symptoms in&nbsp;varying degrees of severity in&nbsp;you or your loved ones, you need to sign up for&nbsp;a consultation with&nbsp;a specialist,&nbsp;psychotherapist&nbsp;will help deal with&nbsp;the problem by assigning a course of treatment.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very often people, being in a&nbsp;bad mood, call their state&nbsp;depression, and&nbsp;not&nbsp;necessarily because they want to deliberately exaggerate their psycho-emotional state.&nbsp;In the&nbsp;understanding of the common man in the street,&nbsp;bad mood&nbsp;and&nbsp;depression are&nbsp;identical.&nbsp;But we&nbsp;must not forget that depressive disorder&nbsp;is a disease that a&nbsp;psychotherapist&nbsp;must observe and&nbsp;treat.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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