Types
Respond to certain objects or situations with fear and dread, as well as with physical signs of anxiety or panic, such as a rapid heartbeat and sweating.
What is Anxiety Disorder?
Stress that's out of proportion to the impact of the event, inability to set aside a worry, and restlessness.
What is anxiety disorder?
Certain genes may increase your risk of developing a mental illness, and your life situation may trigger it.
What is Inherited traits?
A long-lasting Mental Health Disorder is label with this term.
What is Chronic?
These disorders, also called effective disorders, involve persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness.
What is Mood disorders?
The persistent feeling of sadness or loss of interest that characterizes major depression can lead to a range of behavioral and physical symptoms. These may include changes in sleep, appetite, energy level, concentration, daily behavior, or self-esteem.
What is Clinical Depression?
Exposure to environmental stress, inflammatory conditions, toxins, alcohol or drugs while in the womb can sometimes be linked to mental illness.
What is Environmental exposures before birth?
Conditions that affect your thinking, feeling, mood, and behavior.
What are Mental Disorders?
Two of the most common symptoms of psychotic disorders are hallucinations -- the experience of images or sounds that are not real, such as hearing voices -- and delusions, which are false fixed beliefs that the ill person accepts as true, despite evidence to the contrary.
Psychotic disorders
Manic episodes may include symptoms such as high energy, reduced need for sleep, and loss of touch with reality. Depressive episodes may include symptoms such as low energy, low motivation, and loss of interest in daily activities. Mood episodes last days to months at a time and may also be associated with suicidal thoughts.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Neurotransmitters are naturally occurring brain chemicals that carry signals to other parts of your brain and body.
What is Brain chemistry?
More than half of this countries population will be diagnosed with a mental disorder at some time in their life.
Extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors involving weight and food.
What are Eating disorders?
Forgetfulness, limited social skills, and thinking abilities so impaired that it interferes with daily functioning.
What is Dementia?
Defects in or injury to certain areas of the brain have also been linked to some mental illnesses.
What is Brain defects or injury?
A medical history, A physical exam and possibly lab tests, if your provider thinks that other medical conditions could be causing your symptoms and A psychological evaluation. You will answer questions about your thinking, feelings, and behaviors.
What are steps to getting a diagnosis?
People with impulse control disorders are unable to resist urges, or impulses, to perform acts that could be harmful to themselves or others.
What are Impulse control and addiction disorders?
Symptoms include limited attention and hyperactivity.
What is Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?
Long-term substance abuse, in particular, has been linked to anxiety, depression, and paranoia.
What is Substance abuse?
What are laziness and weakness?