Mental health encompasses a wide range of conditions, disorders, and experiences that affect a person's thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and overall well-being. Here are some common types of mental health issues:
Anxiety Disorders: Conditions characterized by excessive worry, fear, or nervousness. This includes generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobias.
Mood Disorders: These are characterized by disturbances in mood or emotion. Major depressive disorder (MDD), bipolar disorder, and dysthymia fall under this category.
Psychotic Disorders: Conditions that cause abnormal thinking and perceptions, such as schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.
Trauma-Related Disorders: Conditions resulting from exposure to traumatic or stressful events, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), acute stress disorder, and adjustment disorders.
Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders: These involve intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviors (compulsions), such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), hoarding disorder, and body dysmorphic disorder.
Eating Disorders: Conditions characterized by disturbances in eating behaviors and body image, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.
Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: These involve the misuse of drugs or alcohol, leading to addiction and harmful consequences.
Personality Disorders: Conditions characterized by inflexible and maladaptive patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, such as borderline personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and narcissistic personality disorder.
Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Conditions that typically manifest early in development and affect brain function and behavior, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and intellectual disabilities.
Sleep Disorders: Conditions that affect the quality, timing, and amount of sleep, such as insomnia, sleep apnea, and narcolepsy.