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Types of Mental Disorders

Anxiety & Panic Disorders
Anxiety & Panic Disorders

Caffeine is a mood-altering drug, and it may make symptoms of anxiety disorders worse. Eat right, exercise, and get better sleep. Brisk aerobic exercises like jogging and biking help release brain chemicals that cut stress and improve your mood. Sleep problems and anxiety disorder often go hand in hand.

source: webmd.com
Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders

Types of Disorders. Anxiety disorder is an umbrella term that includes different conditions: Panic disorder. You feel terror that strikes at random. During a panic attack, you may also sweat, have chest pain, and feel palpitations (unusually strong or irregular heartbeats). Sometimes you may feel like you’re choking or having a heart attack.

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Anxious Avoidant, Dependent and Obsessive Compulsive
Anxious Avoidant, Dependent and Obsessive Compulsive

It includes the Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders. These three personality disorders share a high level of anxiety. The Avoidant Personality Disorder* is characterized by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and a hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.

Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mental illness that brings severe high and low moods and changes in sleep, energy, thinking, and behavior. People who have bipolar disorder can have periods in which they feel overly happy and energized and other periods of feeling very sad, hopeless, and sluggish. In between those periods, they usually feel normal. You can think of the highs and the lows as two "poles" of mood, which is why it's called "bipolar" disorder.

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Dementias
Dementias

Dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life. Memory loss is an example. Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia.

source: alz.org
Depression
Depression

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the U.S. Current research suggests that depression is caused by a combination of genetic, biological, environmental, and psychological factors. Depression can happen at any age, but often begins in adulthood.

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Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders

Extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors involving weight and food is a kind of mental health problem. Read more about the causes, symptoms and how to get help.

Emotional and Impulsive Borderline, Histrionic and Narcissistic
Emotional and Impulsive Borderline, Histrionic and Narcissistic

Cluster B includes Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality ... They frequently act on impulsive urges without considering ... Mental Disorders.

Find a Psychiatrist
Find a Psychiatrist

* Serious mental illness is a mental, behavioral or emotional disorder (excluding developmental and substance use disorders) resulting in serious functional impairment, which substantially interferes with or limits one or more major life activities.

Mood Disorders
Mood Disorders

Demi Lovato shares her personal story with mental health problems and offers advice for young adults. If you have, or believe you may have, a mental health problem, it may be helpful to talk about these issues with others.

News & Features
News & Features

The News Manual has definitions of what news is (see the lower links on the right), but here we share with you some other people's opinions on the subject.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a type of mental illness. People with OCD can have either obsessive thoughts and urges or compulsive, repetitive behaviors. Some have both obsessions and compulsions. OCD isn’t about habits like biting your nails or always thinking negative thoughts.

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Personality Disorders
Personality Disorders

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is not the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder, a type of anxiety disorder. When to see a doctor If you have any signs or symptoms of a personality disorder, see your doctor or other primary care professional or a mental health professional.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

PTSD is a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event. It is natural to feel afraid during and after a traumatic situation. Fear triggers many split-second changes in the body to help defend against danger or to avoid it. This “fight-or-flight ...

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Psychosis
Psychosis

Psychosis is characterized by an impaired relationship with reality. And it is a symptom of serious mental disorders. People who are psychotic may have either hallucinations or delusions. Hallucinations are sensory experiences that occur within the absence of an actual stimulus.

Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a psychosis, a type of mental illness in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. At times, people with psychotic disorders lose touch with reality. The world may seem like a jumble of confusing thoughts, images, and sounds.

source: webmd.com
Schizophrenia/Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia/Psychotic Disorders

People with certain psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, ... "Overview of Psychosis." MedLinePlus: "Psychotic Disorders." National Alliance of Mental Illness: ...

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Substance Abuse & Addiction
Substance Abuse & Addiction

Substance abuse is when you take drugs that are not legal. It’s also when you use alcohol, prescription medicine, and other legal substances too much or in the wrong way. Substance abuse differs from addiction.

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Suspicious Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal and Antisocial
Suspicious Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal and Antisocial

Paranoid, Schizoid & Schizotypal Personality Disorders. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) definesparanoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders as a cluster of “odd” personality disorders.

source: disorders.org