Contrast major depressive disorder with just being sadSoluti

Contrast major depressive disorder with just “being sad”

Solution

The affective disorders are characterised by serious, prolonged disturbances of mood. The affective disorders include the depressions, the manias and swings between two states, the bipolar affective disorders. In the depressive disorders, the prominent feature is a pervasive sadness, loss of interest or pleasure and feelings of worthlessness. The essential features of the manias are elated mood, sometimes with euphoria (an exaggerated sense of well being), overconfidence and irritability. Along with schizophrenia, the affective disorders form the major psychiatric illnesses today. Depression can be triggered by stressful event, it accompany other mental or medical disorders, or it can arise spontaneously.