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| Mood States |  Recognition of the different mood states is indispensable so that the person who has manic-depressive illness can achieve efficient treatment and avoid the harmful consequences of the disease, which contain destruction of personal relationships, loss of employment, and suicide.
Depression
People usually doubt completely their capability of doing everything well. It seems to them that their minds have slowed down and burned out to the point of being practically ineffective. They are always troubled with the anxious hopelessness of it all. They are sure nobody understands them and of course cannot help them. They frequently suppose everything in their lives is pointless.
Hypomania
Hypomania is a state in which the person demonstrates a high level of energy, excessive moodiness or irritability and impulsive. Hypomania may feel good to the person who experiences it. They have tremendous ideas, all their shyness disappears, the right words and gestures are suddenly . But everything becomes intensely interesting for them. Sensuality is pervasive; the desire to seduce and be seduced is overwhelming. Their marrow is infused with incredible feelings of ease, power, well-being, omnipotence and euphoria.
Mania
The ideas of people with mania become too fast and there are far too many overwhelming confusion replaces clarity they stop keeping up with. Communicable humor ceases to amuse. Friends of these people become frightened as they are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and trapped.
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