Depression

A mental health condition characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.

Symptoms include:

• Low Mood/ persistent sadness.
• Loss of interest in all pleasure activities.
• Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain.
• A slowing down of thought and a reduction of physical movement.
• Fatigue or loss of energy.
• Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt.
• Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness.
• Recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal ideation or a suicide attempt.

If you are experiencing 5 or more symptoms, please contact us.

Anxiety 

An anxiety disorder is a type of mental health condition, in which an individual may respond to certain things and situations with fear and dread. Individuals may also experience physical signs of anxiety, such as a pounding heart and sweating. An individual may feel anxious or nervous if they must tackle a problem at work, go to an interview, take a test or make an important decision.

Symptoms include:

• A condition marked by excessive worry and feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness. Restless, tired or irritable, muscle tension, not being able to concentrate or sleep well, shortness of breath, fast heartbeat, sweating, and dizziness.
• It is characterized excessive and difficult-to-control worry about several life situations. The worry is accompanied by restlessness, fatigue, inability to concentrate, irritability, muscle tension, and/or sleep disturbance.
• Worry of risk and fear accompanied by restlessness, tension, tachycardia, and dyspnea unattached to a recognizable stimulus.
• Apprehension or fear of impending actual or imagined danger, vulnerability.

If you are experiencing 5 or more symptoms, please contact us .

Stress Related Disorders

1. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.

Symptoms include:

•  Intrusive Memories (Recurrent, unwanted distressing memories of the traumatic event).
• Avoidance (Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event).
• Negative changes in thinking and mood (Negative thoughts about yourself, other people or the world, Hopelessness).
• Changes in physical and emotional reactions (Being easily startled or frightened, Always being on guard for danger).

2. Acute Stress Disorder

Acute stress disorder (ASD) is a short-term mental health condition that can develop within the first month after a traumatic event.

Symptoms include:

• Anxiety.
• Intense fear or helplessness.
• Flashbacks or nightmares.
• Feeling numb or detached from one’s body.
• Avoiding situations, places, or other reminders related to the traumatic event.
• Recurring, uncontrollable, and intrusive distressing memories of the event.
• Feelings that the traumatic event is recurring.
• Intense psychological or physical distress when remined of the event.

3. Adjustment Disorder

Adjustment disorders are excessive reactions to stress that involve negative thoughts, strong emotions and changes in behavior. The reaction to a stressful change or event is much more intense than would typically be expected.

Symptoms include:

• Feeling sad, hopeless or not enjoying things you used to enjoy.
• Crying often.
• Worrying, or feeling anxious, nervous, jittery or stressed out.
• Feeling irritable or like you can’t handle anything and don’t know where to start.
• Having trouble sleeping.
• Not eating enough.
• Having difficulty concentrating.
• Having difficulty with daily activities.
• Withdrawing from family and friends who support you socially.
• Not doing important things, such as going to work or paying bills.
• Thinking about suicide or acting on those thoughts.

If you are experiencing 5 or more symptoms, please contact us .

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is an illness that causes extreme mood swings. It involves periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood, each lasting from days to weeks. These mood shifts can make it difficult to carry out day-to-day tasks, go to work or school, and maintain relationships.

Symptoms include:

• Intense feelings of euphoria, excitement, or happiness.
• Having excessive energy.
• A decreased need for sleep.
• Speaking fast or being unusually talkative.
• Inflated self-esteem.
• Feeling down, sad, worried, worthless, anxious, guilty, empty, or hopeless, lack of interest, or no interest, in activities.
• Feeling tired, low energy.
• Changes in sleep, either sleeping too much or too little.
• Changes in appetite, either eating too much or too little.
• Thoughts of death and/or suicide.

If you are experiencing 5 or more symptoms, please contact us.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead to repetitive behaviors (compulsions).
Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both:

Obsessions are defined by (1) and (2):

1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress.
2. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e., by performing a compulsion).

Compulsions are defined by (1) and (2):

1. Repetitive behaviors (e.g., hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly.
2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation; however, these behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they are designed to neutralize or prevent or are clearly excessive.

If you are experiencing these, please contact us.

Fear or Phobia

A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, and lasting fear of a certain object, situation, or activity. This fear can be so overwhelming that a person may go to great lengths to avoid the source of this fear.

Symptoms include:

• Marked fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation (e.g., flying, heights, animals, receiving an injection, seeing blood).
• The phobic object or situation almost always provokes immediate fear or anxiety.
• The phobic object or situation is actively avoided or endured with intense fear or anxiety.
• The fear or anxiety is out of proportion to the actual danger posed by the specific object or situation and to the sociocultural context.
• Fear, anxiety, or avoidance is persistent.
• Fear, anxiety, or avoidance causes significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

If you are experiencing 5 or more symptoms, please contact us.

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric condition that has severe effects on one’s physical and mental well-being. It disrupts how one’s brain works, interfering with things like your thoughts, memory, senses and behaviors. As a result, the individual may struggle in many parts of their day-to-day life.

Symptoms include:

• False perception of something that seems real, such as a sight, sound, smell, taste, or touch.
• False belief that is based on incorrect information about reality, and that is firmly held despite evidence to the contrary.
• Lack of Motivation.
• Isolation.
• Difficulty expressing Emotions.
• Loss of Interest.
• Disorganized.
• Speech (Repetition, lack of words, rapid changes in volume, Speaking very fast).
• Poverty of Speech.

If you are experiencing 5 or more symptoms, please contact us.

Dissociative Disorders

Dissociative disorders are mental health conditions that involve experiencing a loss of connection between thoughts, memories, feelings, surroundings, behavior and identity. These conditions include escape from reality in ways that are not wanted and are not healthy.

Symptoms include:

• A sense of being separated from yourself and your emotions.
• Thinking that people and things around you are distorted and not real.
• A blurred sense of your own identity.
• Severe stress or problems in relationships, work or other important areas of life.
• Not being able to cope well with emotional or work-related stress.
• Memory loss, also called amnesia, of certain time periods, events, people and personal information.
• Mental health issues, such as depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

If you are experiencing 5 or more symptoms, please contact us.

Childhood Related Disorder

1. Learning Disability

Learning disability (LD) is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved-

A. in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in an imperfect ability.

B. to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations.

There are certain behavioral indications of learning disabilities in children- 

• Impulsive behavior in talk and action.
• Inability to focus on one activity.
• Easily distractable.
• Inability to shift from one activity to another.
• Easy onset of fatigue Problems of left and right, up and down orientation.
• Difficulty in understanding and remembering oral message.

2. Dyscalculia

Dyscalculia is a learning disorder that makes it difficult to understand numbers and perform mathematical calculations.

Symptoms include:

• Difficulty when counting backwards.
• Poor sense of number and estimation.
• Tends to be slower to perform calculations.

3. Dysgraphia

Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder that affects writing ability at any stage, including handwriting, spelling, letter formation, grammar, and rate of writing.

Symptoms include:

• Students may exhibit strong verbal but particularly poor writing skills.
• Random (or non-existent) punctuation.
• Spelling errors (sometimes same word spelled differently); reversals; phonic approximations; syllable omissions; errors in common suffixes.
• Misinterpretation of questions and questionnaire items.
• Generally illegible writing (despite appropriate time and attention given the task).
• Inconsistencies: mixtures of print and cursive, upper and lower case, or irregular sizes, shapes, or slant of letters.

4. Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental disorder that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave. Symptoms

Symptoms include:

• Difficulty with communication and interaction with other people (Making little or inconsistent eye contact, appearing not to look at or listen to people who are talking etc.).
• Restricted interests and repetitive behaviors (Becoming upset by slight changes in a routine and having difficulty with transitions etc.).
• Symptoms that affect their ability to function in school, work, and other areas of life.

5. Conduct Disorder

Conduct disorder (CD) is a mental health condition that involves a consistent pattern of aggressive and disobedient behaviors. Pattern of engaging in behaviors that violate social norms, the rights of others, and are often illegal.

The four core behaviors of conduct disorder include:

• Aggression toward people and animals and/or violating others’ basic rights.
• Destruction of property.
• Deceiving, lying and/or stealing
• Serious. violations of rules.

6. Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Characterized by a pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient and hostile behaviors, at least 6-month duration and 4 out of 8 of the following:

Symptoms include:

• often loses temper.
• often argues with adults.
• often actively defies rules or refuses to comply.
• often deliberately annoys other people.
• often blames others for mistakes.
• often touchy or easily annoyed by others.
• often angry and resentful.
• often spiteful and vindictive.

7. ADHD

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development. 

Symptoms include:

• daydream a lot.
• forget or lose things a lot.
• squirm or fidget.
• talk too much.
• make careless mistakes or take unnecessary risks.
• have a hard time resisting temptation.
• have trouble taking turns.
• have difficulty getting along with others.

Panic Disorder

A panic attack is an abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes.

Symptoms include:

• Palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate.
• Sweating.
• Trembling or shaking.
• Sensations of shortness of breath or smothering.
• Feelings of choking.
• Chest pain or discomfort.
• Nausea or abdominal distress.
• Feeling dizzy, unsteady, light-headed, or faint.
• Chills or heat sensations.
• Numbness or tingling sensations.
• Feelings of unreality or being detached from one-self.
• Fear of losing control.
• Fear of dying.

If you are experiencing 4 or more symptoms, please contact us.

Sexual Disorders

Sexual disorders are a difficulty experienced by an individual or couple during sexual activity. They are persistent, recurrent difficulty with sexual response, desire, orgasm or pain. It can result in strained relationships.

Symptoms include:

• Inability to achieve or maintain an erection suitable for intercourse.
• Absent or delayed ejaculation despite enough sexual stimulation.
• Inability to control the timing of ejaculation.
• Inability to achieve orgasm.
• Inadequate vaginal lubrication before and during intercourse.
• Inability to relax the vaginal muscles enough to allow intercourse.
• Lack of interest in or desire for sex.
• Inability to become aroused.
• Pain with intercourse.

If you are facing any of the above symptoms, please contact us.

Personality Disorder

A personality disorder is a mental health condition where people have a pattern of seeing themselves and reacting to others in ways that cause problems. People with personality disorders often have a hard time understanding emotions and tolerating distress. And they act impulsively. This makes it hard for them to relate to others, causing serious issues, and affecting their family life, social activities, work and school performance, and overall quality of life.

Symptoms include:

• Negative feelings like distress, anxiety, worthlessness, or anger.
• Avoiding other people.
• Feeling empty and emotionally disconnected.
• Odd behavior.
• Difficulty maintaining close relationships.
• Periods of losing contact with reality.
• Strange or unpredictable behavior.
• Suspicion and distrust.
• Taking risks.
• Extreme mood swings or emotional outbursts.
• Need for instant gratification.

If you are experiencing 5 or more symptoms, please contact us.

Eating Disorders

Eating disorders are serious and often fatal illnesses that are associated with severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. Preoccupation with food, body weight, and shape may also signal an eating disorder.

Symptoms include:

• dramatic weight loss.
• concern about eating in public.
• preoccupation with weight, food, calories, fat grams, or dieting.
• excuses to avoid mealtime.
• intense fear of weight gain or being “fat”.
• severely limiting and restricting the amount and types of food consumed.
• refusing to eat certain foods.
• denying feeling hungry.
• expressing a need to “burn off” calories.
• repeatedly weighing oneself.
• patterns of binge eating and purging.
• developing rituals around food.
• excessively exercising.

If you are facing any of the above symptoms, please contact us.

Sleep Related Disorder

Sleep disorders (or sleep-wake disorders) involve problems with the quality, timing, and amount of sleep, which result in daytime distress and impairment in functioning.

A. Insomnia

Insomnia is characterized by an ongoing difficulty to fall or remain asleep despite wanting to sleep and having enough time to sleep. People with insomnia also experience daytime sleepiness and may have difficulty functioning while they are awake. Chronic insomnia is diagnosed when someone has these symptoms at least three times per week for at least three months.

B. Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea is a common sleep-related breathing disorder that disrupts breathing at night. People with this condition often snore heavily and may wake up choking or gasping for air. There are two types of sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when tissues in the mouth and throat relax, frequently blocking the upper airway. Central sleep apnea occurs when the brain temporarily stops sending signals to the muscles that control breathing.

C. Narcolepsy

Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that makes people feel excessively tired during the day despite getting an adequate amount of sleep. This can lead to an irrepressible urge to sleep, culminating in “sleep attacks” that typically last for a few minutes. These sleep attacks and other symptoms of narcolepsy are caused by disruptions in the brain’s ability to regulate the sleep-wake cycle.

D. Parasomnias

Parasomnias are a group of unusual sleep behaviors that can occur before falling asleep, during sleep, or in the transition between sleep and wakefulness. Parasomnia is most common in children, but they affect adults as well. They include sleepwalking, bedwetting, night terrors, and more unique ones like exploding head syndrome.

If you are facing any of the above symptoms, please contact us.