F39

Applicable To

• Affective psychosis NOS

Clinical Information

• A category of psychiatric disorders which have as their most predominant feature a disturbance in mood.

• Disorders in which the essential feature is a severe disturbance in mood depression, anxiety, elation, and excitement) accompanied by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, gross impairment in reality testing, etc.

• Emotional behavior inappropriate for one’s age or circumstances, characterized by unusual excitability, guilt, anxiety, or hostility.

• Mental disorders characterized by a disturbance in mood which is abnormally depressed or elated. Compare emotional stability or emotionally disturbed.

• Most people feel sad or irritable from time to time. They may say they’re in a bad mood. A mood disorder is different. It affects a person’s everyday emotional state. Nearly one in ten people aged 18 and older have mood disorders. These include

• Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature.