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

Remedies

• Anac
• Ars
• Aur
• Ign
• Ph-ac
• Kali-br
• Puls
• Nat-m
• Se
• Ant-c
• Naja
• Nux-v
• Stann
• Psor

Remedies

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 + Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound + epigastrium Sinking.
• Homeopathic medicine for mood disorder that has palpitation. Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide.
• Talks of committing suicide. Great fear of death.
• Peevish and vehement at least contradiction. Anthropophobia. Mental derangements.
• Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply. Cannot do things fast enough.
• Oversensitiveness; (Staph) to noise, excitement, confusion.
• Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness. Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot eructations.

Ars

• Tendency to self mutilation
• Feeling of Worthlessness / Despair: Rush of blood to the head in melancholic states
• 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;
• Delusions of conspiracies against him.
• Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath.
• Loss of memory. Must do something-move about; gets fidgety.
• 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, melancholia,
• Anaesthesia of the mucous membranes, especially of eyes, throat, and skin; acne; loss of sexual desire, paralysis.

Natrum muriaticum

• 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.

Symptoms of Mood Disorders

• Depression of mood is the primary symptom. There may be a diurnal variation of mood, depression being most distressing early in the morning or at the end of the day.
• Loss of pleasure in life (anhedonia)
• Loss of interest in oneself and others
• Low self esteem
• Self blame
• Hopelessness
• Suicidal thinking
• Feeling of guilt and worthlessness
• Sleep disturbance (initial insomnia, early morning wakening or hypersomnia)
• Poor concentration
• Fatigue
• Headache and other pains
• Anorexia (loss of appetite)
• Weight changes
• Constipation
• Reduced libido
• Sense of well being evident as elation or ecstasy
• Confidence and self-esteem are high
• Grandiose ideas without any substance.
• Thoughtless and risky behavior
• Delusion of being especially gifted or of being well-connected.
• 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.

All these symptoms  may not be present in any single person and the level of intensity of symptoms vary from person to person.