Mental health is an important topic. With more and more individuals being diagnosed with mental health disorders each year, it’s essential to address underlying conditions and support those who are ...

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM: Welcome to the WebMD Health Discovered podcast. I'm Dr Neha Pathak, WebMD's Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine. While many of us have heard of or ...

Bipolar disorder is a long-term mood disorder characterized by major fluctuations in mood — both high and low — that can impact daily functioning and behavior. Although bipolar disorder is a chronic ...

Most of us have felt sad or low at some point in our adult lives but have learned coping strategies that have kept us from becoming overwhelmed by these feelings. Some of us, however, have reached an ...

When someone is feeling sad or happy, we might say they’re in a “bad mood” or “good mood.” So when you hear the term “mood disorder,” you might think it’s nothing more than a transient feeling. But ...

Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia overlap in some ways. For instance, both can lead to psychosis, a state of mind causing a detachment from reality. Although they have some similarities, they’re very ...

The Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders (TRMD) Clinic is a referral-based service for patients with mood disorders that haven’t improved with first-line treatments, known as treatment-resistant mood ...

People of all ages can develop depression or other mood disorders, and that includes children and adolescents. According to statistics from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for ...