Mental Disorders

2. an ongoing pattern of behavior marked by emotional and behavioral problems.
6. the more-severe form of depression, also known as major depression or major depressive disorder.
8. help people learn to cope with stressful situations, overcome addictions, manage their chronic illnesses, and tests and assessments that can help diagnose a condition or tell more about the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves.
9. a common, chronic, and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts ("obsessions") and/or behaviors ("compulsions") that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over.
11. any disorder that significantly impairs the cognitive functions of an individual to the point where normal functioning in society is impossible without treatment.
12. a sudden feeling of acute and disabling anxiety.

1. a mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows.
3. abnormal anxiety about one's health, especially with an unwarranted fear that one has a serious disease.
4. a medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.
5. a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock
7. a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.
10. a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation