A psychiatric disorder is a mental illness diagnosed by a mental health professional that greatly disturbs your thinking, moods, and/or behavior and seriously increases your risk of disability, pain, death, or loss of freedom
Types and Symptoms of Common Psychiatric Disorders
- Depression
- Personality Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Eating Disorder
- Autism Disorder
- Stress
- Epilepsy
- Migraine
- ADHD
- OCD
Symptoms
- Confused thinking
- Reduced ability to concentrate
- Deep, on-going sadness, or feeling “down”
- Inability to manage day-to-day stress and problems
- Trouble understanding situations and other people
- Withdrawal from others and from activities you used to enjoy
- Extreme tiredness, low energy, or sleeping problems
- Strong feelings of fear, worry, or guilt
- Extreme mood changes, from highs to lows, often shifting very quickly
- Marked changes in eating habits
- A change in sex drive
- Drug or alcohol abuse
- Excessive anger, hostility, and/or violence
- Suicidal thinking