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51 conditions,
written so they make sense.
Across 15 areas of mental health. Everyone has heard of a few names and nothing of the rest, so search by condition, or by how you actually feel.
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51 conditions
ADHD
A lifelong difference in attention regulation, impulse control and activity level, which affects how easy it is to start, sustain and finish things.
Adjustment Disorder
Distress that arrives within three months of a significant change, such as a breakup, job loss, illness or move, and outweighs what would be expected.
Agoraphobia
Fear of situations it would be hard to escape from or get help in: public transport, queues, open spaces, shopping centres, being far from home.
Alcohol Use Disorder
A pattern of drinking that becomes hard to control and continues despite harm to health, relationships or work.
Anorexia Nervosa
Restriction of food intake driven by fear of weight gain, leading to significantly low body weight and an intense focus on control.
ARFID
Very limited eating driven by sensory sensitivity, low appetite or fear of consequences such as choking, rather than by body image.
Autism
A lifelong developmental difference affecting sensory processing, communication and social understanding. Not an illness, but often accompanied by real distress in an unsuited environment.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
A long-standing pattern of feeling inadequate and expecting rejection, leading to avoidance of work, social and intimate situations.
Binge Eating Disorder
Recurrent episodes of eating a large amount in a short time with a sense of losing control, without purging, followed by distress.
Bipolar I Disorder
Episodes of mania, where mood and energy escalate far beyond normal for a week or more, usually alternating with periods of depression.
Bipolar II Disorder
Repeated depressive episodes with milder episodes of elevated mood (hypomania) that feel productive rather than out of control. Often mistaken for depression for years.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Preoccupation with a perceived flaw in appearance that others cannot see, or see as minor, causing real distress and repetitive checking.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Intense, fast-changing emotions and relationships, often developing after early environments where feelings were not reliably met.
Bulimia Nervosa
Cycles of binge eating followed by purging through vomiting, laxatives or over-exercise, usually with shame and a normal body weight.
Burnout
Exhaustion that sleep does not fix, built up from prolonged work or caregiving stress. Often paired with detachment from the things you used to care about.
Chronic Pain & Low Mood
Ongoing pain and depression feed each other: pain exhausts and isolates, and low mood turns up the volume on pain.
Complex PTSD
Prolonged or repeated trauma, often in childhood or in a relationship, that shapes how safe, worthy and in control you feel as a person.
Cyclothymia
Two years or more of shifting between mild highs and mild lows that never quite reach full episodes, but still unsettle stability.
Delirium
A sudden change in attention and awareness, usually caused by a physical illness, infection, medication or withdrawal. It is a medical emergency.
Delusional Disorder
One or more persistent false beliefs held with conviction, without the other features of schizophrenia, and often not obviously unusual from the outside.
Dementia & Cognitive Change
Progressive conditions affecting memory, thinking and daily function, often accompanied by anxiety, low mood or personality change.
Depersonalisation-Derealisation Disorder
Persistent feelings of being detached from yourself, or of the world being unreal, foggy or dreamlike.
Depression
More than low mood: a flattening of energy, interest and pleasure that lasts weeks or months and changes how you think about yourself and the future.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
A protective response to severe early trauma where different self-states hold separate memories and experiences, often with gaps in recall.
Gambling Disorder
Gambling that escalates and continues despite mounting financial, relational and emotional harm.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder
A persistent, free-floating worry that rarely settles, even when there is nothing specific to worry about. The body stays on alert, so rest feels impossible.
Health Anxiety
Persistent fear of being seriously ill, or of becoming ill, based on bodily sensations and reassurance that never quite lasts.
Hoarding Disorder
Persistent difficulty discarding possessions, whatever their value, leading to clutter that makes living spaces hard to use.
Insomnia Disorder
Difficulty falling or staying asleep at least three nights a week for three months, with real daytime consequences.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Repeated outbursts of anger out of proportion to the trigger, with real distress or consequences afterwards.
Nightmare Disorder
Frequent, vivid nightmares that wake you with distress and make you reluctant to sleep.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Intrusive, unwanted thoughts paired with rituals that briefly quiet the fear and then strengthen it.
Panic Disorder
Repeated, unexpected surges of intense fear that peak within minutes, plus a persistent fear of having another one. The attacks are frightening but not dangerous.
Persistent Depressive Disorder
A long-running, lower-grade depression lasting two years or more, often experienced as 'just how I am' rather than as an illness.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
A lasting stress response after a traumatic event, where the threat keeps replaying in the body long after it has ended.
Postpartum Depression
Depression starting in pregnancy or the first year after birth, going beyond the brief tearfulness of the early baby days.
Postpartum Psychosis
A rare but serious psychiatric emergency in the days and weeks after birth, involving a rapid change in perception, mood and thinking.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Severe mood symptoms in the week or two before a period that lift sharply after bleeding starts, distinct from ordinary premenstrual tension.
Problematic Gaming & Internet Use
Use that takes over sleep, study, work or relationships, and that is hard to cut back even when it is clearly causing harm.
Prolonged Grief Disorder
Grief that stays acute and disabling for over a year, where the loss dominates daily life and normal life does not resume.
Schizoaffective Disorder
Psychotic symptoms happening alongside significant mood episodes, where both are present and prominent over time.
Schizophrenia
A condition involving episodes of psychosis, where thoughts and perceptions become disconnected from shared reality, often alongside withdrawal and reduced motivation.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Depression that follows the seasons, most often arriving in autumn and lifting in spring, tied to the loss of daylight.
Self-Harm
Hurting yourself as a way of managing unbearable feelings, numbness or overwhelm. It is a signal of distress that needs care, not judgement.
Skin Picking Disorder
Repeated picking at skin, causing wounds, scarring and distress, often in response to tension or as an automatic habit.
Social Anxiety Disorder
Intense fear of being judged, embarrassed or watched in social situations, often far out of proportion to the situation itself.
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Physical symptoms that are real and distressing, alongside intense worry and attention that make them worse.
Specific Phobias
A strong, persistent fear of one particular thing or situation, such as flying, needles, vomit, spiders, water or the dentist. The fear is immediate and out of proportion.
Suicidal Thoughts
Thoughts of ending your life, which can arrive with depression, crisis or overwhelming pain. Having them does not mean you will act on them, and they can pass.
Tourette Syndrome
A neurological condition causing involuntary tics, movements or sounds, which can be suppressed briefly but at the cost of rising tension.
Trichotillomania
Repeated pulling out of hair, often from the scalp, brows or lashes, usually to relieve tension or in a trance-like state.