Signs & Symptoms
Nightmares, flashbacks, and uncontrollable thoughts after witnessing an extremely stressful event.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
A brain condition that destroys memory and thinking, leading to mood shifts, personality changes, and disorientation.
What is Dementia
Persistent low mood, feelings of guilt, lack of energy, and a loss of interest in pleasurable activities (anhedonia).
What is Major Depressive Disorder
Strong cravings for and an addiction to drugs or alcohol.
What is Substance Use Disorder
Rapidly eating excessive amounts of food, or dramatically limiting food intake and experiencing severe stomach pain.
What is an Eating Disorder
This condition causes people to get distracted easily, fidget, tap their feet, and struggle with organization and impulse control.
What is ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)?
A type of depression that is directly linked to changing seasons and typically ends around the same time every year.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Experiencing unwanted thoughts and fears (obsessions), alongside a fear of losing control or misinterpreting words.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
A rapid heartbeat, sweating, shaking, and dizziness caused by an intense fear of a specific thing or situation.
What is a Phobia?
A spectrum disorder where individuals may struggle to look at people while talking and have high sensitivity to light or loud noises.
What is Autism?
Feeling extremely worried or nervous more frequently or intensely than a situation actually warrants.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
A constant pattern of grandiosity, a strong need for admiration, and difficulty building healthy relationships due to a lack of empathy.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder
Delusions, hallucinations, abnormal behavior, and hearing voices that are often described as creepy.
What is Schizophrenia?
A condition that causes a partial or total loss of memory, leading to repetitive questioning and confabulation.
What is Dissociative Amnesia
A condition characterized by a long-term pattern of lacking empathy, where a diagnosis requires showing at least 5 of 9 core DSM traits.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder
This 9-letter medical term used in the definition of Major Depressive Disorder means the inability to feel pleasure from activities you used to enjoy.
What is Anhedonia
Extreme mood swings, being unusually energetic, active, short-tempered, and doing things you usually wouldn't do.
What is Bi-Polar Disorder
An episode where someone completely loses their grip on reality, starts seeing things that aren't there, and may feel a physical squeezing sensation in their head and eyes.
What is Psychosis
This condition causes a person to have two or more separate identities that control their behavior at different times, alongside memory gaps.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)