Mental Health

When someone views you in a negative way because you have a distinguishing characteristic or personal trait that's thought to be, or actually is, a disadvantage (a negative stereotype)

• Stigma
• Resiliency
• Depression
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

The ability to adjust, recover, bounce back & learn from difficult times

• Resiliency
• Panic attacks
• Bipolar Disorder
• Anorexia nervosa

Episodes of unexplained terror or fear that something bad is going to happen

• Panic attacks
• Depression
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Bulimia nervosa

A mood disorder that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act.

• Depression
• Bipolar Disorder
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Psychosis

A mental illness that causes dramatic shifts in a person’s mood, energy and ability to think clearly.

• Bipolar Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Anorexia nervosa
• Schizophrenia

A mental health disorder that is characterized by repetitive, unwanted, intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and irrational, excessive urges to do certain actions (compulsions).

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Bulimia nervosa
• Protective factors

A mental health disorder that is caused by traumatic events and can have lasting effects on a person’s mental health.

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Anorexia nervosa
• Psychosis
• Risk factors

A condition where people avoid food, severely restrict food, or eat very small quantities of only certain foods. They also may weigh themselves repeatedly. Even when dangerously underweight, they may see themselves as overweight.

• Anorexia nervosa
• Bulimia nervosa
• Schizophrenia
• Stigma

A condition where people have recurrent and frequent episodes of eating unusually large amounts of food and feeling a lack of control over these episodes. This binge-eating is followed by behavior that compensates for the overeating such as forced vomiting, excessive use of laxatives or diuretics, fasting, excessive exercise, or a combination of these behaviors.

• Bulimia nervosa
• Psychosis
• Protective factors
• Resiliency

a person’s thoughts and perceptions are disturbed and the individual may have difficulty understanding what is real and what is not

• Psychosis
• Schizophrenia
• Risk factors
• Panic attacks