Mood disorders

Classification

According to DSM-5, published on May 18, 2013, there are following types of mood disorders:

• Depressive disorders
• Bipolar disorders
• Substance-induced mood disorders
• Mood disorders due to another medical condition

General Sign / Symptoms

• Anhedonia
• Low self esteem
• Self blame
• Hopelessness
• Suicidal thinking
• Poor concentration
• Fatigue

Diagnostic Mental features	Remedies	Diagnostic physical features
Guilty feelling	Kali-br		Kali-br
Over sensitiveness	Aur, Ign	Palpitation, Arrhythmia	Aur
Hypersomnia	Aur	Hair falling	Nat-m, Caust
Self mutilation	Ars	Loss of Libido / Impotency	Kali-br
Sexual mania	Bell, Hyos	Hand restlessness	Kali-br
I am the means of divine punishment	Kali-br	Dyspepsia	Anac, Aur
Abusive, Cursing	Anac	Rush of blood to head	Ars
Immoral	Kali-br	Insomnia	Ign
Delusions of conspiracy	Kali-br	Increased Appetite	Aur
Clairvoyant	Anac	Anorexia + Weight loss	Ign
Changeable Mood / Act	Ign	Headache and other pains	Ign, Nat-m
Hypochondriasis	Anac	Night terrors	Kali-br
Amnesic aphasia	Kali-br	Acne	Kali-br
Fear of Being injured	Ars	Hypertension	Aur
Wants to touch	Bell	Brain-fag	Anac
Desire to be killed	Bell	Slowness	Alum
Silent grief + Great tenderness	Ign	Constipation	Alum

Remedies

Banerji protocols
First line	Aur C200, one dose every 3 days Coff C200, Two doses daily
Second line	Lach C200, one dose every 3 days Ign C200, Two doses daily
Third line	*Hyos C6, Two doses daily Con C3, One dose daily

Anac

• Fixed ideas
• Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills.
• Malicious / Suspicious: Anxiety when walking, as if pursued.
• Depression + Hypochondriasis + Abusive
• Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness.
• Easily offended
• Lack of confidence in himself or others
• Clairvoyant, hears voices far away or of the dead.
• Dyspepsia: Empty feeling in stomach. Eructation, nausea, vomiting. Eating relieves him
• Choking when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily.

Aur

• Feeling of worthlessness + Self-Reproaching
• Depression + Hypertension + As if heart stopped beating for 2 or 3 seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound
• Epigastrium / stomach Sinking / Swelling / Hot eructation / Burning
• Depression + Palpitation + Rapid / Feeble / Irregular Pulse
• Disgust of life and thoughts of suicide.
• Talks of committing suicide + Great fear of death.
• Intolerance of least contradiction. Anthropophobia.
• Mental derangements. Cannot do things fast enough.
• Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply.
• Over sensitiveness (Staph) to noise, excitement, confusion.
• Appetite / Thirst increased + Qualmishness

Ars

• Tendency to self mutilation
• Rush of blood to the head in melancholic states
• Feeling of Worthlessness / Despair
• Memory is weakness
• Anger / Irritability
• Fear of Death/ Being alone / Being injured

Bell

• Intellectual disability
• Amorous mania + Sexual excitement + Crazy Happiness
• Senseless talk + Staring / Protruding eyes
• Rage without any cause. Irritable curses horrible
• Wants to touch everything and everyone
• Depression /Indifference + Wants to drawn himself, or that somebody else should kill him

Hyos

• Patient acts Silly and Idiotic
• Lascivious / Lewd / Nymphomania: Throws the bed-clothes off and makes lewd and ridiculous gestures.
• Bad effects of extreme jealousy, fright, disappointed love, etc.
• Depression + Debility / Prostration

Ign

• Sensitiveness of feeling, delicate conscientiousness.
• Fearful/ Timid / Irresolute / Anxious
• Intolerance of Noise / Contradiction
• Taciturn + Continuous sad thoughts + Serious depression + Moaning
• Anger followed by silent grief
• Introverted / Silent grief + Great tenderness
• Changeable Mood / Act: Jesting and laughing, changing to sadness weeping

Kali-br

• Profound, melancholic delusions
• Immoral
• Religious depression: Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath.
• Delusions of conspiracies against him.
• Must do something-move about; gets fidgety esp hand restlessness
• Fear of being poisoned.
• Amnesic aphasia: can pronounce any word told, but cannot speak otherwise.
• Night terrors. Horrid illusions. Active delirium.
• General failure of mental power, loss of memory + Depression
• Anesthesia of the mucous membranes esp eyes, throat, and skin
• Acne
• Loss of Libido / Impotency

Nat-m

• Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief, fright, anger, etc.
• Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases. Consolation aggravates.
• Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles. Awkward, hasty.
• Wants to be alone to cry. Apprehension for the future.
• Hypochondriacal, tired of life. Joyless, indifferent, taciturn. Hurriedness.
• Passionate vehemence ; gets angry at trifles. Difficulty of thinking ; absence of mind, weak memory.

Alum

• Slowness, Paralyzed depression in elderly people

Small remedies

Calc-ars

• Obese / Chilly / Edematous / Depressed around menopause
• Cancer of uterus
• Palpitation easily

Symptoms of Mood Disorders

• Sense of well being evident as elation or ecstasy
• Confidence and self-esteem are high
• Grandiose ideas without any substance.
• Thoughtless and risky behavior
• Thoughts come rapidly
• Speech is fast
• Physical activity is increased
• Appetite is initially increased but may be decreased later.
• Sleep hours are reduced, but this does not cause fatigue.
• Promiscuity may occur.