mood disordernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmuːd dɪˌsɔːd.ər/us/ˈmud dɪˌsɔːr.dɚ/specializeda problem that affects someone's emotional state, for example depression or changes caused by alcohol or drugs:
The onset of winter in northern latitudes can cause seasonal affected disorder, a form of mood disorder, in some individuals.
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Mental & psychiatric disorders
- ad
- adjustment disorder
- age-associated memory impairment
- anhedonia
- anorexia nervosa
- dementia
- eating disorder
- learning difficulties
- male menopause
- melancholia
- neurotic
- non compos mentis
- paranoia
- sad
- schizophrenia
- schizophrenic
- seasonal affective disorder
- Sen
- Stockholm syndrome
- visual variant of Alzheimer's disease
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