An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person, preventing him or her from leading a happy, healthful, and productive life.

Condition that causes people to deliberately injure themselves.

Engage in destructive behaviors such as stealing, cruelty, lying, aggression, violence, truancy (skipping school), arson (setting fires), and vandalism.

A condition in which real or imagined fears are difficult to control.

Experience extremes of emotion much more severe than the normal highs and lows of daily life.

Mental disorder in which a person loses touch with reality, symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, or thought disorders.

A strong, irrational fear of something specific, such as heights or social situations.

A mark of shame or disapproval that results in an individual being shunned or rejected by others.

People with these disorders cannot resist the urge to engage in hurtful behaviors.

Feel excessively worried and tense for no reason.

Involves persistent thoughts, fears, or urges (obsessions), which lead to uncontrollable repetitive behaviors (compulsions).

This condition may develop after exposure to a traumatic event, such as a car accident or a violent attack.

Causes people to uncontrollably spend money on items that they can’t afford and don’t need.

People with these disorders are unable to regulate their emotions.

Causes people to starve themselves to become as thin as possible.

People with this disorder experience attacks of sudden, unexplained feelings of terror.

Deliberately setting fires to feel pleasure or release tension.