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
- major depressive disorder
- dysthymic disorder (a chronic, mild depression)
- bipolar disorder (also called manic depression)
- Those disorders that have a disturbance in mood as their predominant feature.
Codes
- F39 Unspecified mood [affective] disorder