Common Mental Health Conditions

Mental and behavioral health issues don’t discriminate against age or gender. They can appear all of a sudden or can grow little by little.

Anxiety disorders

Anxiety disorders cause the sufferer to experiences extreme, often disabling, fear or anxiety. They can be understood as a pathological version of normal fear and are the most common mental disorder.

Eating disorders

This group of conditions, which includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder, is marked by an unhealthy relationship with food and weight.

Mood disorders

Mood disorders, sometimes called affective disorders, refer to a category of mental health problems that include all types of depression and bipolar disorders. It is a category of mental illnesses in which the underlying problem primarily affects a person’s persistent emotional state.

Personality disorders

Personality disorders comprise a group of conditions in which sufferers display rigid and maladaptive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that can often disrupt their personal, professional, and social lives.

Phobias

A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, and persistent fear of a specific object, situation, or activity. The fear experienced by people with phobias can be so great that some individuals go to extreme lengths to avoid the source of their fear.

Postpartum depression

Perinatal psychiatric disorders, including postpartum depression, are among the most common complications of childbearing. Postpartum depression is characterized by a moderate to severe depressive episode that a mother experiences after the birth of a child.

Psychotic disorders

Distorted awareness and thinking are key to psychotic disorders. This includes delusions, which are false beliefs the person thinks are true despite evidence otherwise, and hallucinations, the seeing images or hearing sounds that are not real. Schizophrenia is the most well-known psychotic disorder.