Anxiety Disorders
This is a chronic mental health condition in which social interactions cause irrational anxiety.
Social anxiety disorder
This is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.
Depressive disorders
The activity of expelling food that has just been ingested, usually by vomiting or the use of laxatives.
Purging
This is an ongoing difficulty in throwing away or parting with possessions because you believe that you need to save them. You may experience distress at the thought of getting rid of the items.
Hoarding disorder
This is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. People with this disorder may lack the ability to understand or care about the feelings of others.
Narcissistic personality disorder
This is an overreaction of fear and anxiety to daily life stressors. The reaction causes a hyperphysical response, followed by intense worry that another attack will happen soon.
Panic Disorder
This is a condition in which children or adolescents experience ongoing irritability, anger, and frequent, intense temper outbursts.
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD)
An eating disorder characterized by an abnormally low body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of weight.
Anorexia nervosa
This is a mental illness involving obsessive focus on a perceived flaw in appearance. The flaw may be minor or imagined. But the person may spend hours a day trying to fix it.
Body dysmorphic disorder
This is a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships.
Borderline personality disorder
This is a condition of excessive worry about everyday issues and situations. In addition to feeling worried you may also feel restlessness, fatigue, trouble concentrating, irritability, increased muscle tension, and trouble sleeping.
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
When a person is in a depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks.
Major depression
Eating unusually large amounts of food in a specific amount of time, such as over a two-hour period. Feeling that your eating behavior is out of control. Eating even when you're full or not hungry. Eating rapidly during binge episodes.
Binge-eating disorder
This a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and constant vivid recall of the experience, with dulled responses to others and to the outside world.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
This is a mental health condition in which a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others.
Antisocial personality disorder (APD)
This involves a persistent or recurring feeling of being detached from one's body or mental processes, like an outside observer of one's life.
Depersonalization
It impacts mood and behavior as well as various physical functions, such as appetite and sleep. This is one of the most common mental health conditions in the United States.
Major depressive disorder
People with this condition may secretly binge — eating large amounts of food with a loss of control over the eating — and then purge, trying to get rid of the extra calories in an unhealthy way.
Bulimia nervosa
This disorder features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears that lead you to do repetitive behaviors. These obsessions and compulsions interfere with daily activities and cause significant distress.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
This disorder involves odd or eccentric ways of thinking. People with this disorder also suffer from paranoia, an unrelenting mistrust and suspicion of others, even when there is no reason to be suspicious.
Paranoid personality disorder
This is an extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult.
Agoraphobia
This is a continuous, long-term form of depression. You may feel sad and empty, lose interest in daily activities, and have trouble getting things done.
Persistent disorder
This is an uncontrolled episode of overeating (called binging). This is followed by purging by self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxatives, and other methods.
Bulimic Cycle
This is an intense, unpleasant, and dysfunctional reaction beginning shortly after an overwhelming traumatic event and lasting less than a month.
Acute stress disorder (ASD)
This is a mental health condition marked by unstable emotions, a distorted self-image and an overwhelming desire to be noticed.
Histrionic personality disorder