• Anxiety Disorders & Facts: 

• A condition characterized by excessive fear and worry and related behavioral disturbances for most of the day, nearly every day. Symptoms are severe enough to result in significant distress or significant impairment in functioning. 

Over 301 million people live with an anxiety disorder, including 58 million children and adolescents.

 Types:

• Generalized anxiety disorder (characterized by excessive worry)

• Panic disorder (characterized by panic attacks)

• Social anxiety disorder (characterized by excessive fear and worry in social situations).

• Separation anxiety disorder (characterized by excessive fear or anxiety about separation from those individuals to whom the person has a deep emotional bond).

•  And others. 

• Depression Symptoms & Facts:

• Depression is a condition characterized by a depressed mood (feeling of emptiness, sad, irritability) or a loss of pleasure or interest in activities for most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks. 

• Poor concentration, feelings of excessive guilt or low self-worth, hopelessness about the future, thoughts about dying or suicide, disrupted sleep, changes in appetite, or weight feeling, especially tired or low in energy.

• People with depression are at an increased risk of suicide.

• Over 280 million people live with depression, including 23 million children and adolescents. During a depressive episode, the person experiences a depressed mood (feeling sad, irritable, emptiness) or a loss of pleasure or interest in activities for most of the day, nearly every day.

• Neurodevelopmental Disorders & Facts: 

• Conditions characterized by cognitive and behavioral disorders arising during the developmental period and involve significant difficulties in the acquisition and execution of specific intellectual, motor, language, or social functions. 

• Examples are autism spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

• ADHD is characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that has a direct negative impact on academic, occupational, or social functioning.

• Disorders of intellectual development are characterized by significant limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, which refers to difficulties with everyday conceptual, social, and practical skills that are performed in daily life.

• Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) constitutes a diverse group of conditions characterized by some degree of difficulty with social communication and reciprocal social interaction, as well as persistent, restricted, repetitive, and inflexible patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. 

• Bipolar Disorder: A condition characterized by alternating depressive episodes with periods of manic symptoms. 

•  During a depressive episode, the person experiences a depressed mood (feeling sad, irritable, empty) or a loss of pleasure or interest in activities for most of the day, nearly every day. 

• Manic symptoms may present as euphoria or irritability, increased activity or energy, increased talkativeness, racing thoughts, increased self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, distractibility, and impulsive, reckless, or thoughtless behavior. 

• Over 40 million people have experienced bipolar disorder, whether Bipolar type 1 or type 2.

• Bipolar disorder increases may increase your risk of suicide.

• Schizophrenia Disorder & Facts: 

A condition characterized by persistent delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, highly disorganized behavior, or extreme agitation causing significant impairments in perception, behavior, and cognitive functioning. Over 24 million people suffer from Schizophrenia. People with schizophrenia have a life expectancy of 10-20 years below that of the general population.

• Disruptive Behavior and Dissocial Disorders: 

• Conditions characterized by persistent behavior problems such as persistent defiance or disobedience to behaviors that persistently violate the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms, rules, or laws. 

• 40 million people, including children and adolescents, live with conduct-dissocial disorder.

• Eating Disorder & Facts: 

• Conditions characterized by abnormal eating and preoccupation with food as well as prominent body weight and shape concerns often resulting in significant risk or health complications, significant distress, or significant impairment of functioning, and even suicide. 

Over 14 million people experienced eating disorders, including almost 3 million children and adolescents. 

• Trauma, PTSD & Facts: 

• A condition characterized by persistent (1) re-experiencing the traumatic event or events in the present (intrusive memories, flashbacks, or nightmares); (2) avoidance of thoughts and memories of the event(s) or avoidance of activities, situations, or people reminiscent of the event(s); and (3) persistent perceptions of heightened current threat lasting for at least four (4) weeks and cause significant impairment in functioning. 

• Sleep or Insomnia: 

• A predominant complaint of dissatisfaction with sleep quantity or quality three (3) nights per week despite adequate opportunity for sleep for three months.

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder(OCD): 

• Recurrent and persistent unwanted intrusive uncontrolled thoughts (obsessions) cause the individual to engage in repetitive behaviors (compulsions) not better explained by the symptoms of another mental disorder causing marked anxiety or distress.

• Psychosis: 

• A collection of symptoms affecting the mind to disconnect from reality and disruption of thoughts and perceptions.