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Mental Disorders

What are mental disorders?

Mental disorders (or mental illnesses) are conditions that affect your thinking, feeling, mood, and behavior. They may happen over a short period of time or come and go. Some can be chronic (long-lasting). They can affect your ability to relate to others and function each day..

What are some types of mental disorders?

There are many different types of mental disorders. Some common ones include:

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  1. Mental Disorders (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... mental disorders? There is no single cause for mental illness. A number of factors can contribute to risk for mental illness, such as: Your genes and family history Your ...
  2. Managing Life with Serious Mental Illness Video (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)  
    ... Crisis Care Guidance Title Managing Life with Serious Mental Illness What are Serious Mental Illnesses? What are Serious ... death of a loved one. Support for Serious Mental Illness Learn how support systems and connection help people ...
  3. Dual Diagnosis (National Library of Medicine)  
    ... even more common in teenagers, people with serious mental illness, and people with certain mental disorders. Why do substance use disorders and mental disorders ...
  4. Mental Illness Statistics From the National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Mental Health)  
    ... statistics on the prevalence, treatment, and costs of mental illness for the population of the United States, in ...
  5. ... used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia (a mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels and behaves) and schizoaffective disorder (a mental illness with symptoms of schizophrenia and a mood disorder ...
  6. Mental Health: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Illness (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)  
    Mental Disorders/Related Issues
  7. Mental Illness (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)  
    Mental Disorders/Start Here
  8. Mental Illness in Children: Know the Signs (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)  
    Child Mental Health/Diagnosis and Tests ... Child Mental Health ... Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
  9. ... release injections are used to treat schizophrenia (a mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels and behaves) and schizoaffective disorder (a mental illness that causes both a loss of contact with ...
  10. NAMI (NAMI)  
    ... to help NAMI is the National Alliance on Mental Illness. We are the nation’s largest grassroots mental health ... lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. Our Alliance includes more than 650 NAMI State ...
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