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Mental health conditions
Mental health conditions
Mental health conditions are conditions that affect your mood, thinking and behaviour.
ADHD in
adults
ADHD causes problems with your concentration, memory and impulsive behaviour.
Anxiety
If you feel anxious or worried so often it interferes with your daily life, you may need help for an anxiety disorder.
Autism
A lifelong condition that causes differences in communication, social skills and behaviour.
Bipolar
disorder
When you have bipolar disorder, your mood is sometimes very low (depression), and sometimes very high (elevated).
Borderline personality
disorder
A type of mental health disorder. People with a personality disorder may find it difficult to think and act the way other people do.
Depression
Depression is when sadness takes over and does not go away.
Eating
disorders
A mental health conditions that leads to serious and unhealthy eating patterns.
Psychosis
It usually happens as part of a serious mental illness but there are some other causes.
Schizophrenia
A long-term mental illness. It can usually be very effectively treated with medications.
Self
harm
When you hurt your body on purpose. It can affect anyone, and takes many different forms.
Stress
Long term stress is bad for our health. With stress, most people can work out what is causing it.
Suicide and
prevention
If you, or someone you know, is having thoughts about taking their own life, remember support is available. Things can get better, and suicide is preventable.