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.
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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.
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.
Shifts between depressive episodes and periods of elevated or irritable mood with unusually high energy (mania or hypomania).
Also: Post-traumatic stress disorder, C-PTSD
When the nervous system stays in survival mode long after a frightening or overwhelming event has ended.
Also: Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Unwanted intrusive thoughts that spike distress, plus compulsions — mental or physical — done to neutralise them.
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.
Periods where perception and belief separate from shared reality — hearing voices, holding fixed unusual beliefs, or disorganised thinking.
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.
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.