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People with mood disorders experience multiple issues. They often miss work or have poor school performance.

in trouble, with at least one in ten suffering from significant mood disorders. Our mood problems are increasing so fast that by 2022 [it is estimated] they will outrank AIDS, accidents, and violence as the primary cause of early death and disability.” 2 Mood disorders are still some of the leading causes of illness, missed work, poor school performance, hospitalization, financial problems, relationship and family issues, and even increased suicide rates. We have come a long way in the last 100 to 150 years regarding how scientists define mood, how mood disorders are viewed, and what can be done to help people. Treatments are based on learning from the past, seeing what did and did not work, and developing even better treatments, therapies, and medications. Mood disorders are nothing new. In fact, they have been around since humans first walked the planet, but these ailments were not always known and understood the way they are now. French psychiatrist Jean-Pierre Falret printed an article in 1851 in which he wrote about something he called la folie circulaire , which translates to “circular insanity.”

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Behavioral Disorders: Mood Disorders