How Anxiety and Mood Disorders Can Affect a Person’s Life Lauren White Palm Beach State College ABSTRACT This paper is written with the help of ten peer reviewed journal articles. It explains how Anxiety and Mood Disorders can affect a person thinks, lives their life, and treats other people. A few examples of these disorders include Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Depression, and Bipolar Disorder and how these illnesses can alter a person's life completely. These disorders affect the group of adolescents more than people who are in their adulthood. Regardless of the age one is diagnosed with any of these terrible disorders, each and every one of them can completely change a person. They can make a person …show more content…
The decisions one makes in their lifetime really makes up who the person is, but if you have to make these decisions while having a disorder of some sort, that can completely change the outcome of how one lives their life. Anxiety and mood disorders are mental disorders that make one think differently. Psychologically, when a person is diagnosed with a mood or an anxiety disorder, it pretty much pushes a person to live a certain way. Many people who are diagnosed with a disorder like these feel like a completely different person. If the disorder is caught at a young age though, it may be easier for a person to learn how to live with something so altering. An adult who eventually suffers from this disorder will have to drastically change the way he or she normally lived before being diagnosed. It is a very sad thing that some people every single day have to live through but eventually people who contracted the disorder learn how to live and act. The thought that anxiety and mood disorders often occur in early adulthood and adolescence, it should be important to a parent to understand and map why this may be occurring for their child. Therefore, understanding how a parent’s son or daughter may be experiencing such scary symptoms. By doing this, it can help to change how a person reacts to such a terrible disorder and can lead to a better outcome then if the disorder was to be diagnosed at a later stage in …show more content…
People everyday are diagnosed with this sickness and are struggling to get through it for a lifetime. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Depression are the main examples of anxiety and mood disorders. Each one of them is extremely different and can lead to a dramatic change in a person. Going through something like one of these disorders can lead to a very bad outcome depending on how a person takes ones own diagnose. It is unbelievable that a person could go through such a traumatic experience in life just because of something that they were either born and diagnosed with or taken on later in ones lifetime in adulthood. Cases like bipolar disorder can become so severe it is scary. Innocent people everyday have to take on and be diagnosed with these disorders whether it was caused by a traumatic experience or even something so mild and small that could have set someone off. Some people are born with such a disorder also. All of the anxiety and mood disorders talked about have a major affect on every single persons life that are diagnosed or even friends/family with the person diagnosed. It not only affects a single person, but it can lead to affecting a whole group of people. With that being said, it is such a terrible thing to have and it is so unbelievable that some people can’t even help but have this disorder. On the bright