Health-Mental health illnesses

Bipolar disorder (formerly called manic-depressive illness or manic depression) is a mental illness that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration. These shifts can make it difficult to carry out day-to-day tasks.

Symptoms:

High energy

Reduced need forsleep

Loss with touchwith reality

a personality disorder characterized by severe mood swings, impulsive behavior, and difficulty forming stable personal relationships and controlling one's emotions.

-overwhelming emotional pain

-feelings of emptiness

-idealizing or devaluing other people

-fear of abandonment

-impulsive or risky behaviors

-intense outbursts of anger

-difficulties with self-image and self-esteem

-self-harm and suicidal ideation

DID is a split personalitydisorder, where you have two ormore separate identities.

There are two forms of thisdisorder, possession: where youralters take control of you in anobvious way, and non-possession: where yourpersonality changes are lessovert to others.

Having at least 2 identities

2. Amnesia or gaps in memory

3. Identities are affecting yourability to function

4. Other mental health disorders(anxiety, depression…)

5. Out of body experiences

6. Detachment from emotions

7. Loss of sense of self

Eating disorders are actually serious and often fatal illnesses that are associated with severe disturbances in people's eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. Preoccupation with food, body weight, and shape may also signal an eating disorder.

Dramatic weight loss.

Wearing loose, bulky clothes to hide weight loss.

Preoccupation with food, dieting, counting calories, etc.

Refusal to eat certain foods, such as carbs or fats.

Avoiding mealtimes or eating in front of others.

Preparing elaborate meals for others but refusing to eat them.

Obsessive compulsive disorder is a mental illness in which repetitive, intrusive thoughts consume the mind which causes certain compulsions or behaviors. 

Doubts about having done something right, like turning off the stove/locking a door

Thoughts about harming someone

Hand washing due to a fear of germs

Mental checking that goes with intrusive thoughts 

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental health condition that's caused by an extremely stressful or terrifying event, either being part of it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety and uncontrollable thoughts about the event.

Being easily startled.

Feeling tense, on guard, or on edge.

Having difficulty concentrating.

Having difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep.

Feeling irritable and having angry or aggressive outbursts.

Schizophrenia is a mentalillness that affects people’sbehaviors, actions, andthoughts. People withschizophrenia may seem likethey have lost touch withreality. Some people mayhallucinate, have delusions, orhave thought disorders.

Hallucinations.

Delusions.

Disorganised thinking.

Lack of motivation.

Slow movement.

Change in sleep patterns.

Poor grooming or hygiene.

Schizoaffective disorder is a mental health condition that is marked by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression, mania and a milder form of mania called hypomania.

Hallucinations

Depression

Delusions

Disorganizedspeech

Behavior

DepersonalizationDisorder is when youfeel that you'reseeing yourself fromthe outside of yourbody and everythingaround you is fake ornot real.

Feeling likeyour not incontrol ofyour body.

Feeling likeyour in the air.

Losing yoursense ofnerves andbones in yourbody.

Memory loss.

A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, and lasting fear of a certain object, situation, or activity.

Feelings of panic, dread, horror or terror

Recognition that the fear goes beyond normal boundaries and the actual threat of danger

Reactions that are automatic and uncontrollable,

aconditionwheresomeonehasdifficultybeing ableto tellwhat’s realor not. Like adisconnection withreality.

Hallucinations

Troublethinkinglogically

Delusions

Suspicious orparanoid ideas

Withdrawing

chronically feeling worried about what may happen in everyday life and lacking control of the worry

Feelings of fear or dread

Perspiration, Trembling, Restlessness, or Muscle tension

Rapid Heart Rate, Lightheadedness, or Shortness of Breath

“a prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness”

Irritable or restless mood

W/drawal from friends/activities previously important

Change in appetite or weight

Feelings of guilt or worthlessness

Sense of hopelessness

Fatigue or loss of energy