Eating Disorders
Individuals with this condition constantly monitor their weight, avoid eating certain types of foods, and severely restrict their calories.
What is Anorexia nervosa?
People with this disorder display excessive anxiety or worry, most days for at least 6 months, about a number of things such as personal health, work, social interactions, and everyday routine life circumstances.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
The act of intentionally causing one's own death.
What is Suicide?
Marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disoder?
What is Bulimia nervosa?
People with this disorder have recurrent unexpected panic attacks. Panic attacks are sudden periods or intense fear that come on quickly and reach their peak within minutes.
What is Panic Disorder?
A mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).
What is Bipolar Disorder?
1-800-273-8255
What is the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline?
A development disorder that affects communication and behavior.
What is Austism Spectrum Disorder?
Individuals with this disorder have symptoms similar to those of bulimia, however they do not compensate for their binges by purging or excessive exercise.
What is Binge eating disorder?
Individuals with this disorder have an intense fear or or aversion to specific objects or situations.
What is Phobia disorder?
Major depression in the week and months after childbirth.
What is Peripartum (Postpartum) Depression?
Alcohol and other substance use disorders, hopelessness, impulsive and/or aggressive tendencies, history of trauma or abuse, major physical illnesses, previous suicide attempts, family history of suicide, job or financial loss.
What are some risk factors for suicide?
A severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, action, or sense of identity.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)?
Individuals with this conditions crave non-food substances, such as ice, dirt, soil, chalk, soap, paper, hair, cloth, wool, pebbles, laundry detergent, or cornstarch.
What is Pica?
General intense fear of, or anxiety toward, social or performance situations.
What is Social anxiety disorder?
Depression and other symptoms associated with a women's menstrual cycle.
What is Premenustral Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD)?
Talking about wanting to die or to kill themselves, looking for ways to kill themselves, like searching online or buying a gun, talking about feeling hopeless or having no reason to live, talking about feeling trapped or in unbearable pain, talking about being a burden to others, increasing the use of alcohol or drugs, sleeping too little or too much...
What are some of the warning signs of suicide?
What is Schizophrenia?
This condition involves repeatedly and persistently regurgitating food after eating, but it's not due to a medical condition or another eating disorder. Sometimes regurgitated food is rechewed and reswallowed or spit out.
What is Rumination disoder?
People who have separation anxiety disorder have fears about being parted from people to whom they are attached.
What is Separation anxiety disorder?
A period of major depression that most often happens during the winter months, when the days grow short and you get less and less sunlight.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Making lethal means available to a patient to be used at a time of the patients choosing versus being actively carrying out the patient's request to end their life and usually involves intravenous delivery of a lethal substance.
What is the difference between physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia?
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?