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Read guide Acute Stress Disorder
Read about acute stress disorder, including symptoms, questions, and care.
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Find a mental health condition and explore its symptoms, assessment, and care in a clearly organized guide.
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Read guide Adjustment Disorders
A stressful event may disrupt mood, behavior, and daily functioning. Support may help when the reaction becomes difficult to manage.
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Read guide Anorexia Nervosa
Read about anorexia nervosa, including symptoms, questions, and care.
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Read guide Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Read about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), including symptoms, questions, and care.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Binge-Eating Disorder
Repeated loss of control around eating is treatable. Care should address the eating pattern without shame or blame.
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Read guide Bipolar Disorder
Read about bipolar disorder, including symptoms, questions, and care.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Body Dysmorphic Disorder
When appearance concerns take over your time and choices, treatment may help loosen their hold on daily life.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Brief Psychotic Disorder
A sudden change in perception or thinking deserves prompt care, even when the episode turns out to be brief.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Cannabis Use Disorder
When cannabis becomes difficult to control or keeps causing problems, treatment may help you change the pattern.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Cyclothymic Disorder
Long-running shifts in mood and energy may disrupt life even when they do not meet the criteria for full mood episodes.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Delusional Disorder
When a belief feels certain and starts shaping daily life, a careful assessment may help make sense of what is happening.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
Feeling detached from yourself or your surroundings may be frightening. The experience can be assessed and treated.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Dissociative Identity Disorder
Gaps in memory and disruptions in the sense of self deserve a careful, respectful assessment.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Excoriation (Skin-Picking) Disorder
Repeated picking may damage skin and consume hours. Care addresses both the skin and the behavior around it.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Female Orgasmic Disorder
Difficulty reaching orgasm is worth discussing when it bothers you. Care starts with your experience, comfort, and goals.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
Changes in desire or arousal deserve attention when they cause distress. The right plan depends on what has changed and what you want.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Gender Dysphoria in Adolescents and Adults
Care for gender-related distress should be respectful, individualized, and guided by the person’s needs and goals.
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Read guide Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Read about generalized anxiety disorder, including symptoms, questions, and care.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Genito-Pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder
Pain or difficulty with penetration deserves assessment. You do not need to push through pain to make progress.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Grief & loss
Explore grief, support after a loss and reasons to seek additional help, with practical questions to bring to a mental health appointment.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Hypersomnolence Disorder
Persistent sleepiness despite enough time for sleep deserves a sleep-focused assessment, especially when it affects safety.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Insomnia
Understand insomnia, what a sleep assessment considers, and the role of CBT-I, sleep routines, and medication discussions in treatment.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Life transitions
Understand the mental health impact of life changes, when adjustment becomes difficult, and how to prepare for a conversation about support.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Low sexual desire becomes a clinical concern when it is persistent and personally distressing. Assessment looks beyond testosterone alone.
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Read guide Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Read about obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd), including symptoms, questions, and care.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Opioid Use Disorder
Opioid use disorder is treatable. Medication may reduce withdrawal and cravings and lower the risk of overdose.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Panic disorder
Understand panic attacks and panic disorder, how they are assessed, treatment options, and questions to bring to a psychiatric appointment.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Persistent Depressive Disorder
Depression that has been present for years may start to feel like your usual self. It still deserves attention and treatment.
Condition guide
Read guide Personality Disorders
Read about personality disorders, including symptoms, questions, and care.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
An introduction to PTSD symptoms, assessment, and treatment options, with questions to help you discuss trauma-related concerns with a clinician.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
The timing of symptoms across the menstrual cycle is central to recognizing PMDD and choosing treatment.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Prolonged Grief Disorder
Grief may remain painful for a long time. This diagnosis concerns a persistent pattern that substantially restricts life after a death.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Restless Legs Syndrome
An urge to move the legs at rest may repeatedly interrupt sleep. The timing of the symptoms helps distinguish RLS from other problems.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Schizoaffective Disorder
Understanding when mood symptoms and psychosis occur helps guide treatment and explains why follow-up is so important.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia may affect perception, thinking, and daily functioning. Treatment addresses both symptoms and the life you want to build.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Schizophreniform Disorder
This diagnosis describes a period of psychotic symptoms whose longer-term course is still becoming clear.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Social anxiety
Learn how social anxiety differs from everyday nervousness, what an assessment considers, and how therapy or medication may fit into care.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Stimulant Use Disorder
This guide covers problematic use of cocaine, methamphetamine, prescription stimulants, and other stimulants in one place.
Condition & concern guide
Read guide Trichotillomania (Hair-Pulling Disorder)
Hair pulling may be automatic, urge-driven, or both. Treatment focuses on the pattern and the situations that keep it going.
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