The mood of a person is influenced by the mass of various conditions, and it can change at any time.
If the mood changes extremely abruptly or does not change for a long time, this may indicate that the person has mental illness.
It is worth remembering what moods there are in order to better understand yourself and the people around you.
What it is: definition
Mood - an emotionally colored process that can persist for a long time.
It has moderate severity (that is, truly acute experiences do not have a long duration).
Mood can significantly influence the behavior of a person, his vision of the world, decisions. The longest emotional process of all existing.
A huge number of factors can affect mood, including:
- somatic health condition (endocrine pathologies, tumor processes in the brain, natural hormonal fluctuations affect mood; if a person experiences pain, discomfort, his mood will be more likely to be negative);
- mental health condition (every mental illness can affect mood: for example, with depression it will be mostly depressed, with manic syndrome it will be inadequately elevated, with bipolar disorder - to adjust to the current phase, manic or depressive);
- wellwounded events, conditions (attitude of others, relatives, status, level of earnings, features of work, presence / absence of recently occurred negative events, and so on);
- drugs, alcohol, drugs.
Phrases and definitions associated with the word "mood", tightly entered the language.
For example, the expression “person of mood” means an impermanent person who must be trusted with caution.
Also, this expression can be used to denote a person whose mood able to change from every little thing.
Types and types
Since mood refers to emotional processes, it is directly related to emotions, so the names of mood types intersect with the name of emotions.
The main types of mood:
- Upbeat, positive. There is a degree of expression of each type of mood, including this. Elated mood can vary from slightly elevated to joyful, happy. Highly elevated mood is usually observed in cases where something very good, bright has happened in a person’s life.
- Sad, sad. The severity of sadness, sadness can also vary. Extremely depressed mood is usually associated with a recent emotional shock, and it can also be a symptom of a mental illness, especially if it lasts more than two weeks.
A moderately sad mood is often observed in people on rainy days, in the autumn-winter period.
- Bored Boredom arises when a person loses interest in something that he is doing at the present time (and sometimes interest does not appear). Combined with the desire to do something more interesting. A bored person is often distracted, can go into dreams about what he will do when he can change the situation, regularly looks at his watch.
- Inspired. It is usually colored positively and favorably influences the motivation of the creative person. In this mood, most of the creative ideas are implemented faster and better, and the person feels a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness.
- Irritable. It can also vary from extremely irritable, aggressive to frustrated. The more pronounced the irritation, the more difficult it is for others to find a common language with this person. Regular aggression, which is difficult to control, is often a sign of mental or somatic pathologies (for example, this symptom occurs when an excessively high level of testosterone in men).
- Calm, neutral. If this mood is colored emotionally, it is insignificant, and emotions almost do not affect human activity. This is a good mood, allowing you to work productively.
A person with a neutral mood is easier to concentrate on.
- Playful, foolish, funny. A person in this mood behaves more frivolously than usual, tends to joke, may feel an urge to be the center of attention. May occur during fun games with children, during or after watching high-quality comedy.
If a person has mental illness, his emotional range narrows.
But this does not mean that a mentally ill person can have only one mood.
Usually a change of mood occurs, but not in the same way as in humans with a healthy psyche.
One mood becomes the leader, and the person returns to him regularly, which is why he has the impression that he is constantly in that mood.
What is his background?
Also, the mood has a background, which is divided into:
- Reduced. It includes all kinds of moods that can be classified as depressed: sad mood, depressed, irritable, apathetic, and so on. The expression “lowered mood background” is often used in special literature: in materials about mental disorders, since a long low mood background indicates the presence of a mental illness.
- Elevated. Includes moods that are related to elevated: joyful, happy, upbeat, inspired, interested, romantic and others.
As in the case of a reduced background, for a long time (more than two weeks), an increased background of mood can be a sign of mental (and sometimes somatic) diseases.
Mood can be:
- Sustainable. Mood for a long time does not undergo significant changes and does not change to another.
- Unstable. This is the so-called "emotional lability": the mood changes easily, and there is a reason enough reason for a change. Emotional instability is characteristic of mental disorders (for example, neurosis, some types of depression) and somatic diseases and conditions (pregnancy and other physiologically caused changes in the hormonal background, endocrine pathologies). Moderate imbalance of mood can be part of the personality (emotional lability is inherent in hysteroids).
If a person has more than two weeks of depressed or, conversely, inadequately elevated mood, it is important to go to the hospital.
Scale
Ron hubbard is the founder of the tone scale, which is directly related to the theme of mood and emotions in general.
Each person has mood swings, but by watching him and noting his emotional state on the tone scale for a long time, one can understand which mood is constant, basic for him.
R. Hubbard offered an extensive list of states, each of which has its own score. If a person according to the results of the study is below the mark of 2.0, it is called low-tone, if higher, high-toned.
If positive events have occurred in a person's life, he rises up the scale, if negative events go down.
The higher a person is on the scale, the easier it is for him achieve high results in life.
The list of emotions with points:
- serenity - 40.0;
- postulates - 30.0;
- games - 22.0;
- action - 20.0;
- inspiration - 8.0;
- sense of beauty - 6.0;
- enthusiasm, enthusiasm - 4.0;
- joy - 3,5;
- pronounced interest - 3.3;
- conservatism - 3.0;
- interest of average severity - 2.9;
- feeling of satisfaction - 2.8;
- lack of interest - 2.6;
- boredom - 2.5;
- monotony - 2.4;
- antagonism - 2.0;
- hostility - 1.9;
- pain - 1.8;
- rage - 1.5;
- hate - 1.4;
- disturbance - 1.3;
- lack of desire for compassion - 1.2;
- restrained indignation - 1.15;
- hidden hostility - 1.1;
- anxiety - 1.02;
- fear - 1.0;
- feeling of despair - 0.98;
- pronounced fear - 0.96;
- numbness - 0.94;
- compassion - 0.9;
- coaxing - 0.8;
- deep sadness, grief - 0.5;
- redemption - 0.375;
- undeservedly - 0.3;
- self-deprecation - 0.2;
- the victim is 0.1;
- hopelessness - 0.07;
- apathy - 0.05;
- sense of worthlessness - 0.03;
- dying process - 0.01;
- bodily death - 0,00.
This scale helps to better understand yourself and others, to find an approach to them. About the benefits of the scale:
- The attitude to the emotions of the people around will change: if a person is angry and behaves inadequately, you will remember that this is a problem of his tone. If you can identify the tone of a person, it will be more convenient to carry on a dialogue with him: you just need to choose the exact same tone or a little higher.
- It will be easier to evaluate peoplethat can get into the close circle. For example, if anger or anxiety is the prevailing tone for a person, it will be difficult to communicate with him.
- If the person is in too low a position, attempts to influence him from the very high will be useless. For example, there is little point in trying to inspire a person who is in a state of apathy.
- The closer a person is to you on a scale, the easier it is to find an approach to it and start close communication.
A man, according to this theory, as if “steps” from tone to tone, and get to the inspiration from joy, you will need to feel the enthusiasm and sense of beauty.
But it is important to remember that this scale was created by a person unrelated to psychology. Most psychologists do not consider it and do not consider it significant.
That was easier to work with the scale, periodically, you can mark your own state or make notes on the state of someone else, so that you can finally understand the prevailing tone and find an approach.
How important?
Is it true that a positive mood is the key to attracting happiness?
It makes sense to recall the famous full-length cartoon "Puzzle", which was beautifully shown why sadness is no less important than joy.
Every mood is important for something: helps to find common ground with people, experiencing similar sensations, develops empathy, gives a sense of diversity of life.
In the end, each person ever felt a light sadness during the overcast weather and at that moment felt something very similar to happiness.
Positive emotions are definitely important. But trying to restrain the negative is extremely dangerous for mental health.
Need to find ways eliminate negative mood only in cases where it lasts a long time and seriously interferes with life.
Harmoniously elevated or neutral mood is the key to happiness and stability. But it's impossible to be happy all the time: happiness is a hormonally conditioned condition that lasts a limited time.
Therefore, it is important to be able to manage the mood and maintain motivation so that life is interesting.
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