Browse conditions

Each guide covers early signs, symptoms, what living with it is like, and what to do once you have a diagnosis. Search by condition name or by what you're noticing.

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Mood

Depression

Also: Major depressive disorder

A persistent low mood and loss of interest that lasts weeks or longer and changes how you think, sleep, eat and move through a day.

Anxiety

Anxiety Disorders

Also: GAD, panic disorder, social anxiety

Worry and fear that stay switched on when there's no immediate threat, strong enough to shrink what you're willing to do.

Mood

Bipolar Disorder

Shifts between depressive episodes and periods of elevated or irritable mood with unusually high energy (mania or hypomania).

Trauma

PTSD & Trauma

Also: Post-traumatic stress disorder, C-PTSD

When the nervous system stays in survival mode long after a frightening or overwhelming event has ended.

Anxiety

OCD

Also: Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Unwanted intrusive thoughts that spike distress, plus compulsions — mental or physical — done to neutralise them.

Neurodevelopmental

ADHD

Also: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

A difference in how attention, motivation and impulse control are regulated — present since childhood, even when only recognised much later.

Eating

Eating Disorders

Also: Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID

Serious conditions where eating, exercise and body image become the main way distress gets managed — affecting people of every body size.

Personality

Borderline Personality Disorder

Also: BPD, emotionally unstable personality disorder

Intense emotions that rise fast and settle slowly, alongside unstable relationships, identity and impulsivity — often rooted in early invalidating environments.