depressive disorders and bipolar disorders

Question 1

major depressive disorder

Answer 1

a disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drug use or a medical condition, 2 or more weeks with five or more symptoms, at least one of which must be either (1) depressed mood or (2) loss of interest or pleasure.

Question 2

bipolar disorders

Answer 2

a group of disorders in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. (Formerly called manic-depressive disorder.)

Question 3

mania

Answer 3

a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgment is common.

Question 4

rumination

Answer 4

compulsive fretting; overthinking our problems and their causes.