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Therapy in which the goal is to improve not only from the interventions of the therapist, but also from observing and receiving feedback/support from other members.
Group
Category of mental illness that includes disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating.
Eating Disorders
Disorder characterized by the chronic, exaggerated worry about everyday life.
Generalized Anxiety
Disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
ADHD
Disorder marked by thoughts and behaviors that drive a person to do something over and over.
OCD
Disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by means of self-starvation.
Anorexia
Phobia
Disorder in which a person has persistent symptoms (nightmares, flashbacks, anger, irritability, etc…) that occur after experiencing a traumatic event such as war, rape, child abuse, natural disasters, or being taken hostage.
PTSD
Medical condition that causes people to lose pleasure from daily life. It can occur to anyone, at any age, and to people of any race/ethnic group.
Depression
A set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something.
Stigma
Illness involving one or more episodes of serious mania and depression.
Bipolar
Stages include, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance and hope.
Grief
This is the approximate number of classified mental illnesses.
200
Category of mental illness that includes disorders such as OCD, PTSD and phobias.
Anxiety Disorders
Therapy that focuses on changing problematic behaviors, feelings and thoughts by discovering where their meanings and motivations are coming from.
Psychotherapy
Category of mental illness that includes disorders such as clinical depression and bipolar.
Mood Disorders
This is the approximate number of Americans that have a mental illness in any given year.
60 million
Emotional disorder characterized by extreme overeating, followed by depression and self-induced purging, fasting or excessive exercise.
Bulimia
Serious brain disorder characterized by a profound disruption in cognition and emotion that affects the most simple of human attributes (language, thought, perception).
Schizophrenia
Category of mental illness that includes disorders such as ADHD and autism.
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Disorder marked by impairments in social interaction, communication and forming relationships.
Autism
Short-term, goal-oriented therapy that takes a hands-on, practical approach in problem-solving to change patterns of thinking and/or behavior.
Cognitive-Behavioral
Category of mental illness that includes disorders such as schizophrenia.
Personality Disorders
Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions that affect what three things?
Mood, Thoughts & Behavior
Recurring episodes of compulsive overeating, or consuming abnormal amounts of food while feeling unable to stop and at loss of control.
Binge Eating