Relationships Between Mood Disorders and Substance Abuse During Adolescence

Autor: Luís Pereira Justo, Helena Maria Calil
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Drug Abuse in Adolescence ISBN: 9783319177946
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-17795-3_11
Popis: Mood is the overall affective quality that is based on how the individual experiences the world and themselves in a given time or period. It is the affective tone of this experience. Typically, the states of mood fluctuate according to internal or external, objective or subjective events within a certain range compatible with such events, and these oscillations are inherent to events. Therefore, mood swings can be considered normal. However, they can also occur for pathological reasons and represent a significant change in the functioning of the affected person. When mood swings are pathological, they lose the quantitative and qualitative proportionality in relation to the events that would have promoted them and are no longer explained by them. Furthermore, these oscillations can arise spontaneously, without association with any event; they can be durable and disruptive and can destabilize the individuals and their relationship with the world. Mood disorders can occur in several mental disorders but are more common in depressive and bipolar disorders.
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