 | Mental Health 8271 Disorders / Issues | • | Addiction Learn about drug, alcohol and tobacco abuse. | | • | Antisocial Personality Disorder Antisocial personality disorder, like other personality disorders, is a longstanding pattern of behavior and experience that impairs functioning and causes distress. | | • | Anxiety People with generalized anxiety disorder can have physical and psychological symptoms in addition to suffering from nagging worries and anxiety. | | • | Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression) According to some estimates, as many as two and a half million Americans suffer from manic depressive illness, also called bipolar disorder. | | • | Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline personality disorder is characterized by poor self-image, a feeling of emptiness, and great difficulty coping with being alone. | | • | Conversion Disorder A conversion disorder is a relatively uncommon mental disorder in which a person has physical symptoms that no medical condition, physical examination or testing can explain. | | • | Delusional Disorder Delusional disorder is classified as a psychotic disorder, a disorder where the person has trouble recognizing reality. | | • | Dementia Dementia is an umbrella term used to describe a multitude of symptoms that all have some element of memory loss. | | • | Depression Depression, which affects about 17.6 million Americans each year, is more than just the everyday blues and can be debilitating for sufferers. | | • | Dysthymia Dysthymia, also called dysthymic disorder, is a form of depression. It is less severe than major depression, but usually lasts longer. | | • | Eating Disorders Eating disorders range from a single, mild illness in adolescence to a lifelong disorder, which is either persistent or fluctuates. | | • | Hypochondriasis Hypochondriasis is a persistent fear of having a serious medical illness. | | • | Obsessive-Compulsive People who suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder get caught up in uncontrollable rituals and rumination. | | • | Panic A person with panic disorder experiences sudden rushes of fearfulness accompanied by physical symptoms such as labored breathing (hyperventilation), rapid heart beat (palpitations), and dizziness. | | • | Phobias Phobias are actually quite common in our society. In many cases, phobias do not pose any significant restrictions or disruptions to a person's life. | | • | Post-Traumatic Stress Post-traumatic stress disorder is used to describe a broad pattern of emotional and behavioral symptoms that arise as a result of direct exposure to or participation in intensely frightening, often violent events or circumstances. | | • | Schizophrenia These psychotic illnesses or brain disorders are characterized by an impaired perception of reality, often coupled with mood disturbances. | | • | Somatization Disorder A person with somatization disorder is chronically preoccupied with numerous "somatic" (physical) symptoms over many years. These symptoms, however, cannot be explained fully by a non-psychiatric diagnosis. | | • | Stress Stressed? Frazzled? Fried? Find fast solutions to those overwhelming problems in our special stress reduction area. | dmtIndexAlpha dmtIndexAlpha dmtIndexAlpha ordered by Content / Priority 273599 InteliHealth 2000-03-17 f InteliHealth NULL 334, 7024, 7097, 7146, 8240, 8275, 8526, 8529, 8539, 8759, 9333, 9348, 10257, 10821, 11106, 11107, 20705, 21151, 21154, 21849, 22025, 23515, 23704, 23788, 23852, 23968, 23970, 24099, 24100, 24101, 24119, 24183, 24201, 24222, 24229, 24247, 24260, 24277, 24290, 24532, 24537, 24587, 24599, 24600, 24608, 24611, 24613, 24614, 24618, 24638, 24731, 24748, 24755, 24774, 25493, 25759, 25761, 25943, 25946, 25967, 25995, 28040, 28048, 28051, 28063, 28831, 28955, 29362, 29580, 32146, 34966, 35000, 48707, 68997, 68998, 25759 |