The psychiatric community divides mood disorders into two categories and they are unipolar and bipolar disorder. They both are a kind of depression with some difference in conditions the patients have to go through. People who suffer bipolar disorder (Also called manic depression) have to face intense mood swings in depression and episodes of high energy or extreme mania.

While the unipolar disorder or depression is a kind of mood disorder that can be divided into several other kinds of depression including:

1) Dysthymia 2) Major depression 3) Seasonal affective disorder 4) Postpartum depression
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