Types of Dysphoria

Dysphoria is a word that turns up often in the literature describing bipolar disorder. By definition, dysphoria is a profound state of unease or a general dissatisfaction with life. From a clinical standpoint, dysphoria suggests a serious depressive episode accompanied by a manic psychosis (the loss of external reality).

Depersonalization in gender dysphoria: widespread and widely unrecognized It’s a sense of unreality, estrangement from your own feelings, and separation from the real world – and it’s a common symptom of gender dysphoria.

Dissociative amnesia is one of a group of conditions called dissociative disorders. Dissociative disorders are mental illnesses that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, consciousness, awareness, identity, and/or perception.

Re: BPD BEHAVIORS: Dissociation and Dysphoria « Reply #6 on: March 17, 2007, 09:39:56 AM » Technically dissociation is defined as follows: The capability or process of separating thoughts, emotions, affects, or experiences from one another either purposely or involuntarily.

Most often, dysphoria is a mood, which means someone can have fleeting moments of dysphoria. People can also experience long-term dysphoric states, and long-term dysphoria is often strongly associated with mental health conditions that affect mood such as major depression, mania, and cyclothymia.

peripartum depression This is a disorder that has been in existence for longer than most people care to admit. It is only within the past 10 or so years that it has been diagnosed and received attention.

Persistent depressive disorder, formerly known as dysthymic disorder (also known as dysthymia), has been recently renamed in the updated DSM-5 (2013). The essential feature of persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) is a depressed mood that occurs for most of the day, for more days than not ...

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a severe, sometimes disabling extension of premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Although regular PMS and PMDD both have physical and emotional symptoms, PMDD causes extreme mood shifts that can disrupt your work and damage your relationships.

Dysphoria (from Greek: δύσφορος (dysphoros), δυσ-, difficult, and φέρειν, to bear) is a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction. In a psychiatric context, dysphoria may accompany depression, anxiety, or agitation.

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a category of depression that emerges in particular seasons of the year. Most people notice SAD symptoms starting in the fall and increasing during the winter months, but a few people experience a spring/summer version.

An adjustment disorder/stress response syndrome is not the same as post-traumatic stress disorder . PTSD generally occurs as a reaction to a life-threatening event and tends to last longer. Adjustment disorders/stress response syndromes, on the other hand, are short-term, rarely lasting longer than six months.