Should Moods Stay Happy?

by TEDxMonterey

Question by John Q.: Should moods stay happy?
What does mood disorder imply? Excuse the phrasing but what is an ordered mood? Does it mean that anything short of absolute calmness is an abnormality?

Best answer:

Answer by Jenelle
“Mood disorders” imply that your emotions are either chronically negative or that they switch from two extremes within seconds.

Having a typical cycle of happy/sad/angry/etc. is the “ordered” mood. This means that you’re sad what something bad happens or your hormones are acting up, angry when someone ticks you off, happy when something good happens and content to happy when there are no triggers.

Having a mood disorder would be like being in a chronic state of extreme depression for months on end and not lightening up when something good happens, getting angry at every little thing (even for no reason) or being extremely euphoric and ecstatic to suddenly and swiftly being chronically depressed and angry with no time for the shift and no reason for the shift.

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