Topics: Mental Health : Disorders
This category is concerned with disorders, conditions and syndromes in the mental health area listed by type and with mental health support groups.
Adjustment
Includes sites dealing with a psychological adjustment disorder, which is characterized by the development of emotional and/or behavioral symptoms in response to a specific stressor or stressors within the environment.
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Anxiety
Anxiety has been defined as a feeling of fear, dread, or apprehension that arises without a clear or appropriate real-life justification.
Acute Stress,
Management,
Obsessive-Compulsive,
Panic,
Personal Pages,
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Child and Adolescent
ADD and ADHD,
Attachment Disorder,
Childhood Depression,
Disruptive Behavior Disorders,
Intellectual Disability,
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Directories
Contains link pages and directories to a variety of disorders, or to disorder resources.
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Dissociative
Sites and categories listed include sites which deal with this disorder characterized by a disruption in the normal functioning of consciousness, identity, memory, or the world around her / him.
Multiple Personality,
Organizations,
Personal Pages,
Support Groups,
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Eating
Anorexia, bulimia, compulsive overeating, and other eating disorders.
Anorexia,
Articles,
Binge,
Bulimia,
Directories,
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Factitious
Factitious disorder is a formal (DSM-IV) mental health diagnosis in which people deliberately exaggerate, fabricate, or induce physical or psychological health problems in themselves in order to get attention for themselves or gain some other form of internal gratification.
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Impulse Control
Contains sites and sub categories for disorders in which a person acts on a certain impulse, that is potentially and knowingly harmful to him or her, but they cannot resist it.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder,
Kleptomania,
Pathological Gambling,
Pyromania,
Self Injury,
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Mood
Contains sites and categories related to these mental disorders also referred to as affective disorders, which is a persistent or episodic exaggeration of mood state.
Articles and Research,
Bipolar Disorder,
Depression,
Personal Pages,
Self-Help,
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Neurodevelopmental
ADD and ADHD,
Autism Spectrum,
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Personality
Sites and categories within this area relate to this disorder which is described as an inflexible and pervasive enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture.
Antisocial,
Avoidant,
Borderline,
Chats and Forums,
Dependent,
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Resources
The Health/Mental_Health/Disorders/Resources category is for sites with resources and information about more then one disorder.
Chats and Forums,
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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is an often-misunderstood brain disease that affects about 1% of the population worldwide. Symptoms can include, but are not limited to: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking and speech, and bizarre or inappropriate behavior.
Articles and Research,
Personal Pages,
Schizoaffective,
Schizoid Personality,
Support Groups,
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Somatoform
Sites included deal with the mental health disorder where there is a clear and present physical symptoms that are suggestive of a somatic disorder but where there is no detectable organic damage or neurophysiological dysfunction.
Body Dysmorphic,
Conversion,
Depersonalization,
Hypochondria,
Somatization,
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Substance Related
Personal Pages,
Support Groups,
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Suicide
Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending one's own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed, or attempted the act.
Personal Pages,
Support Groups,
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