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Nursing Care of Patients With Mood Disorder Mood disorder Objectives : 1- Describe neurobiological, psychosocial theories about the etiology of mood disorder 2- Discuss the epidemiology and life course of depressive and bipolar disorders. 3- Compare and contrast the DSM-IV-TR groupings of depressive disorders and bipolar disorders. 4- Assess suicide risk. 5- Apply the nursing process for clients with mood disorders. 6- Know additional treatment modalities. INTRODUCTION: Mood disorders, sometimes known as affective disorders, are a group of common psychiatric disorders characterized by dysregulation of emotion . Mood disorders are also characterized by a constellation of symptoms including impaired cognition, physiologic disturbances such as sleep and appetite problems, and lowered self-esteem. Mood disorders have serious consequences that result in personal and family suffering, interpersonal and occupational impairment, and expensive social costs . Mood disorders are now viewed as major public health problems in terms of both economic costs and personal suffering . Depression alone has been identified as the fourth-ranked illness in the world , causing burden , morbidity , and mortality throughout multiple countries . Although most people experience mood fluctuations of depression and elation , normal variations tend not to be prolonged or incapacitating. Mood fluctuation is often a normal response to life experiences and events that influence the human capacity for feeling . Grief and sadness in response to loss of a loved one or excitement at the thought of a long-awaite