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Mood Disorders Video Analysis

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For this week's reflection assignment, I chose a video titled "Mood disorders: Major depressive disorder, and bipolar Type 1." I chose this video because several family members of mine have (had) depression, suicidal ideation, and a few others. The video was provided by way of youtube.com, and was uploaded on 14 Feb 15 by Stomp on Step 1. It features Brian McDaniel as the narrator of the video. The video begins with a stagnant introduction by Mr. McDaniel, and explains this video is covering the topic of mood disorders. The common definition of mood disorder is given, a collection of psychiatric conditions that involve a pervasive distortion of one's emotional state. He also notes that everyone has normal, periodic changes, and this common occurrence. What makes mood disorders is the extreme changes unrelated to a person's circumstances. There are more often then not a person will have a near normal affect in between manic episodes. A normal mood of neither positive or negative is known as euthymia (neutral). Mood can be classified as happy, or sad on the opposite spectrum. Mr. McDaniel has am inforgraph that shows the many stages of one's psyche. …show more content…

He goes on to explain just what depression is. From what he described with the numbering, designating the urgency of that category on the initial intake. I often get this when I go to the VA, and have to fill out questions with numerical responses. I give the form to the psychiatric professional, and they add the numbers up. Based of what those numbers are, we are often thought of being in such a state described by criteria. I'm not sure it is the exact same thing, but I can definitely relate to the way he is presenting it. It's kind of like the Glasgow coma scale for medics I

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