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Types of Mental Health Condition
A resource by the charity Mind
A basic summary of most mental health conditions likely to affect children & young people.
HEARING VOICES
Hearing a voice (or many different voices) when no one is present with you, or voices that other people with you can't hear.
HYPOMANIA AND MANIA
Periods of over-active and excited behaviour that can have a significant impact on your day-to-day life.
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
Obsessions are unwelcome thoughts, images, urges, worries or doubts that repeatedly appear in your mind. Compulsions are repetitive activities that you do to reduce the anxiety caused by the obsession.
PARANOIA
Paranoia is thinking and feeling like you are being threatened in some way, even if there is no evidence, or very little evidence, that you are. Paranoid thoughts can also be described as delusions.
HOARDING
Having so many things that you cannot manage the clutter where you live, and find it difficult or impossible to throw things away.
You might hoard because you feel a strong need to keep things. But your connection to these things can cause you distress.
LONELINESS
Everyone's experience of loneliness will be different. One common description of loneliness is the feeling we get when our need for rewarding social contact and relationships is not met. But loneliness is not always the same as being alone.
PANIC ATTACKS
A type of fear response. They're an exaggeration of your body's normal response to danger, stress or excitement.
PHOBIAS
A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder. It is an extreme form of fear or anxiety, triggered by a particular situation or object.
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