Eating Disorders
The provision of assistance and guidance in resolving personal, social, or psychological problems and difficulties, especially by a professional.
This can affect people of any age, race, religion, or income. It is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, and ability to relate to others and daily functioning.
Not getting enough of this will increase levels of anxiety by boosting the part of the brain that most closely connects to anxiety, depression, and other psychiatric disorders. This can cause moodiness, such as irritability as well.
Your family history is one of your best clues about your risk of developing mental disorders and many other common illnesses. Certain mental illnesses tend to run in families, and having a close relative with a mental disorder could mean you may or maybe at a higher risk.
an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat.
A meeting where members guide each other towards the shared goal of recovery...often comprised of nonprofessionals, but peers that have suffered from similar experiences.
An illness involving one or more episodes of serious mania and depression. The illness causes a person’s mood to swing from excessively “high” and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, with periods of a normal mood in between
This plays an important contributing role in the development, management and prevention of specific mental health problems such as depression, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and Alzheimer’s disease. It do not provide adequate amounts of carbohydrates, essential fats, amino acids, vitamins and minerals.
The identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms. Hence, a part of psychologists occupation.
...one of the most effective ways to improve your mental health. ... It also relieves stress, improves memory, helps you sleep better, boosts overall mood and improve physical health.
A mental health disorder characterized by persistently low mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.This illness is the leading cause of disability worldwide.
This addition increases mood disorder and does not reduce it or help deal with the underlying causes. People with mood disorders tend to have withdrawal symptoms during attempts to give up. This is the leading cause of cancer and of death from cancer.
This is the handbook used by health care professionals as the authoritative guide to the diagnosis of mental disorders.
What is DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)?
This emulates natural daylight to deliver white light for improving overall mood, energy and concentration.
What is a Happy light or light therapy?
Your symptoms start in the fall and continue into the winter months, sapping your energy and making you feel moody.
What is seasonal affective disorder?
This can give you a relax feeling and have a very temporary positive impact on our mood, in the long term it can cause big problems for our mental health. It’s linked to a range of issues from depression and memory loss to suicide, and can cause liver disease.
What is alcohol?
An anxiety disorder characterized by irrational fear.
Individuals who suffer from eating disorders also meet the criteria for what mental illness?
This is characterized by repetitive, unwanted, intrusive thoughts and irrational, excessive urges to do certain actions. Although people who suffer from this know that their thoughts and behavior don't make sense, they are often unable to stop them.
What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?