PSYCH 111: Mood Disorders - Clinical Features
Medlock Holmes enters the Theatre of Mood.
At first, the stage appears simple.
One side is darkened by depression.
The other glows with mania.
But as the lights rise, Holmes realises that mood is only one part of the performance.
Behind every emotional state lies an entire orchestra of change.
Movement slows or accelerates.
Sleep contracts or expands.
Appetite disappears or increases.
Thought becomes constricted or races.
Self-esteem collapses or inflates.
Time itself seems to change speed.
This chapter explores the clinical phenomenology of mood disorders: how depression, mania, hypomania…
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