Mood

• Mood is the sustained and pervasive emotion subjectively experienced and reported by the patient, and is observable to others.
• Dysphoric Mood is an unpleasant mood.
• Euthymic Mood is a mood in the normal range.
• Expansive Mood is the expression of one's feelings without any restraint, often an overestimation of one's significance or importance.
• irritable Mood is when a person is easily provoked to anger and is easily annoyed.
• Mood Swings, also known as labile mood, is the moving between euphoria and depression or anxiety.
• Elevated Mood is characterized by an air of enjoyment and confidence, a mood which is more cheerful than normal but is not considered pathological.
• Euphoria is an intense elation with feelings of grandeur.
• Ecstasy is a feeling of intense rapture or delight.
• Depression is the psychopathological feeling of sadness.
• Anhedonia is the loss of interest and withdrawal from all regular and pleasurable activities, often associated with depression.
• Grief or Mourning is sadness that is appropriate to a real loss.
• Alexithymia is the inability or difficulty in describing one's moods or emotions.