1. Mental Illness

2. What is a Mental illness? A mental illness is an illness of the mind.illnessmind People with a mental illness may behave in strange ways, or have strange thoughts, in their view or the view of others. Mental illnesses develop during the life of a person. This may be linked to genes and experience.genes What is considered as a mental illness has changed over time. What is considered to be a mental illness may not be one in a different culture.

3. Stress Pressure places on a person as a result of something: – your job – Your family – Illness – your friends – Your living situation – any number of other examples

4. Anxiety Anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state. It can include fear.emotionalfear Very often, people with anxiety also feel worries. worries There can also be physical symptoms, like having a headache or an upset stomachheadachestomach

5. Depression Depression can mean different things. Major depressive disorder is a type of mood disorder Major depressive disordermood disorder Makes you feel like your sad and don’t know what to do.

6. Bi-Polar Disorder Bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder (historically known as manic–depressive disorder or manic depression) is a diagnosis for a mood disorder.affectivediagnosismood disorder Individuals with bipolar disorder experience episodes of a frenzied state known as mania, typically alternating with episodes of depression.maniaepisodes of depression

7. Suicidal A suicide crisis, suicidal crisis, or potential suicide, is a situation in which a person is attempting to kill him or herself or is seriously contemplating or planning to do so.kill him or herselfseriously contemplating or planning to do so It is considered by public safety authorities, medical practice, and emergency services to be a medical emergency, requiring immediate suicide intervention and emergency medical treatment.emergency servicesmedical emergency suicide intervention

8. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma anxiety disorderpsychological trauma – This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else, or to one's own or someone else's physical, sexual, or psychological integrity, [2] overwhelming the individual's ability to cope [2]ability to cope – Diagnostic symptoms for PTSD include re-experiencing the original trauma(s) through flashbacks or nightmares, avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma, and increased arousal—such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, anger, and hypervigilance.flashbacks nightmaresarousalangerhypervigilance

9. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry; by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety; or by a combination of such obsessions and compulsions.anxiety disorderintrusive thoughtscompulsions Symptoms of the disorder include excessive washing or cleaning; repeated checking; extreme hoarding; preoccupation with sexual, violent or religious thoughts; relationship-related obsessions; aversion to particular numbers; and nervous rituals, such as opening and closing a door a certain number of times before entering or leaving a room.hoardingsexualrelationship-related obsessionsrituals These symptoms can be alienating and time-consuming, and often cause severe emotional and financial distress.alienating

10. Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by a deficit of typical emotional responses.mental disorderthoughtemotional Common symptoms include auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction.auditory hallucinations paranoiddelusionsdisorganized speech and thinking The onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood, with a global lifetime prevalence of about 0.3–0.7%. [prevalence [

11. Pyromaniac Pyromania is an impulse control disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires in order to relieve tension, for gratification or relief.impulse control disorder Pyromania and pyromaniacs are distinct from arson, the pursuit of personal, monetary or political gain. It is multiple deliberate and purposeful fire setting rather than accidental. Pyromaniacs start fires to induce euphoria, and often fixate on institutions of fire control like fire stations and firefighter

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