A mental health condition that can develop soon after a traumatic event. Someone may experience nightmares, unwanted memories, fear, avoidance, or a sense of being disconnected from themselves or their surroundings.

A condition where someone feels driven to keep using a substance even when it's causing harm, and finds it difficult to cut back or stop. It can affect health, relationships, decisions, and daily life.

A developmental condition that can affect attention, activity levels, impulse control, planning, and organization. These differences may make everyday tasks harder to manage.

A developmental condition involving differences in communication, social interaction, behavior, and interests. Autistic people may also experience sounds, lights, textures, or other sensory information differently.

A mental health condition involving episodes of unusually high or irritable mood and increased energy, called mania or hypomania. Episodes of depression are also common. These changes can affect sleep, judgment, relationships, and daily life.

A type of bipolar disorder involving at least one manic episode. During mania, someone's mood, energy, activity, or judgment changes significantly and may seriously disrupt their life. Depression is common but isn't required for the diagnosis.

A type of bipolar disorder involving episodes of major depression and hypomania. Hypomania brings unusually high or irritable mood and extra energy, but is less severe than the full mania seen in Bipolar I.

A mental health condition where someone becomes deeply distressed about parts of their appearance that may seem minor or unnoticeable to others. They may repeatedly check mirrors, compare their appearance, or avoid social situations.

A mental health condition that can make emotions feel intense and difficult to manage. It may affect how someone sees themselves, handles relationships, or responds to fears of being abandoned.

A pattern of behavior that takes away someone's independence or freedom. It might involve monitoring their phone, isolating them from loved ones, controlling money, or making them afraid of what will happen if they say no.

Complex PTSD involves symptoms of PTSD along with lasting trouble managing emotions, feeling good about yourself, or feeling close to other people. It's often connected to repeated or long-lasting trauma, especially when escape was difficult.

Freely and clearly agreeing to take part in a specific activity. Consent means someone understands what they're agreeing to and can make that choice without pressure, threats, or fear.

Treating someone unfairly or limiting their opportunities because of things like race, religion, disability, sex, age, or another part of their identity.

Feeling disconnected from your thoughts, feelings, memories, body, or surroundings. It might feel like you're watching yourself from a distance or that the world around you isn't quite real.

A mental health condition involving two or more distinct identity states along with repeated gaps in memory. It can affect someone's sense of who they are and how they experience everyday life.

Abuse or controlling behavior within an intimate or family relationship. It may involve physical harm, threats, sexual abuse, humiliation, isolation, or control over money and communication.

A learning disability that can make reading words accurately or smoothly and spelling more difficult, even when someone has been taught appropriately and has opportunities to learn.

Serious mental health conditions involving difficulties with eating behaviors and related thoughts or feelings. Examples include anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.

Emotional abuse involves behaviors used to intimidate, humiliate, isolate, manipulate, frighten, or control another person. It may include repeated insults, threats, excessive criticism, monitoring, blaming, or attempts to undermine someone's confidence and independence.

Emotional dysregulation refers to difficulty managing the intensity, expression, or duration of emotional responses. A person may experience emotions that feel overwhelming, react strongly to situations, or find it difficult to return to a calmer emotional state.

Financial abuse involves using money, employment, debt, or access to financial resources to control, exploit, or limit another person's independence. It may include taking someone's earnings, restricting access to bank accounts, preventing them from working, forcing them into debt, or closely monitoring their spending.

Gaslighting is a pattern of psychological manipulation in which someone repeatedly undermines another person's trust in their own memories, perceptions, feelings, or judgment. It may involve denying events, questioning someone's recollection, dismissing their experiences, or deliberately creating confusion.

Gender dysphoria refers to clinically significant distress or difficulties in daily functioning associated with a difference between a person's experienced gender and the sex they were assigned at birth. The distress may involve aspects of the body, social expectations, or how others perceive and treat the person.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is a mental health condition involving excessive, persistent worry about multiple aspects of everyday life. The worry can be difficult to control and may be accompanied by restlessness, fatigue, muscle tension, irritability, difficulty concentrating, or sleep problems.

Grief is a natural response to losing someone or something significant. It can involve sadness, anger, guilt, numbness, confusion, longing, and changes in sleep, appetite, or energy. Grief may follow a death, the end of a relationship, the loss of a home, or another meaningful change.

Hypervigilance is a heightened state of alertness in which a person continually watches or listens for potential danger, even when no immediate threat is apparent. It may involve scanning surroundings, difficulty relaxing, increased sensitivity to noises, or being easily startled.

Major Depressive Disorder is a mental health condition involving persistent depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in activities. Symptoms can also include changes in sleep, appetite, energy, concentration, or feelings of worth. A depressive episode generally lasts at least two weeks and affects daily functioning.

Masking is the process of hiding, suppressing, or adapting natural behaviors, reactions, or communication styles to meet social expectations or avoid negative judgment. In discussions of neurodivergence, it can include consciously or unconsciously concealing autistic or ADHD traits.

Neurodivergence is a broad, nonmedical term describing ways of thinking, learning, processing information, or experiencing the world that differ from what is considered neurologically typical. The term is commonly used in discussions of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other neurological or developmental differences.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a mental health condition involving recurring, unwanted thoughts, images, or urges called obsessions, and repetitive behaviors or mental actions called compulsions. These experiences can cause significant distress, take substantial time, or interfere with daily activities.

Personality disorders are a group of mental health conditions involving enduring patterns of thinking, feeling, behaving, and relating to others that differ substantially from cultural expectations and cause significant distress or difficulties in everyday functioning. Different personality disorders have different characteristics.

Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS) is a complex hormonal and metabolic condition previously known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS). It can affect menstrual cycles, ovulation, hormone levels, metabolism, skin, and reproductive health. Experiences vary and may include irregular periods, acne, increased facial or body hair growth, insulin resistance, and fertility difficulties.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental health condition that can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. Symptoms may include unwanted memories, nightmares, avoidance of reminders, changes in mood or thinking, and feeling constantly alert to possible danger. These symptoms last longer than one month and can interfere with daily life.

Relapse generally refers to a return to substance use or problematic patterns of use after a period of stopping, reducing, or successfully managing that behavior. In addiction recovery, it may involve the return of behaviors or symptoms that someone has been working to change.

Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that can affect a person's thinking, perception, emotional expression, and ability to function in everyday life. Symptoms may include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, reduced motivation, and difficulties with concentration or memory.

Sexual assault involves sexual contact or behavior that occurs without a person's freely given and informed consent. It can include unwanted sexual touching, coercion, forced sexual activity, or sexual acts involving someone who is unable to consent. It can occur between strangers, acquaintances, intimate partners, or spouses.

Stigma refers to negative attitudes, beliefs, or stereotypes that cause people to be judged, excluded, or treated as less worthy because of a particular characteristic, identity, experience, or condition. It can affect people experiencing mental health conditions, addiction, disabilities, or other circumstances that are misunderstood or socially disapproved of.

Withdrawal refers to physical or psychological symptoms that can occur when someone reduces or stops using a substance after their body has adapted to its presence. Symptoms vary depending on the substance and may include anxiety, nausea, sweating, sleep disturbances, shaking, irritability, or strong cravings.