Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
mood swing
mood swing
Definitions related to mood swings:
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An exaggeration of emotional affects such as laughing crying, or yawning beyond what the person feels.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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Oscillation of a person�s emotional feeling tone between periods of elation and periods of depression.Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and PsychologyBJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
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(mood lability) A condition of frequent mood changes associated with excessive emotional reactions.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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(emotional lability) Unstable emotional experiences and frequent mood changes; emotions that are easily aroused, intense, and/or out of proportion to events and circumstances.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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