Supporting our main disorders and symptoms guide, this section provides additional background information on common forms of psychological distress.
If you’d like to learn about the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), sometimes called ‘attention deficit disorder’ (ADD), our main site provides ADHD symptoms and diagnostic criteria, as well as ADHD quizzes and self-tests, such as the Structured Adult ADHD Self-Test.
Intended to complement our main anxiety disorders guide, this section includes information provided by the NIMH on anxiety disorders in general, OCD in particular, and on interventions for children suffering from trauma.
This section provides general information on autism spectrum disorders, while our main site provides more on symptoms used as diagnostic criteria.
This section provides background information on eating disorders intended to complement that provided on the main site’s guide to eating disorders symptoms.
Our main site provides a guide to symptoms employed by psychiatrists as well as an accessible guide to Understanding Depression, while this section includes some more general information on clinical depression, bipolar disorder, and other mood disorders.
If you are in pain for some or all of your waking hours, if pain is permanently in the foreground of your attention, it puts something of a different context around everything else. This section provides information on some of the most common forms of chronic pain, including arthritis, back pain, fibromyalgia and irritable bowel syndrome.
This section provides additional information on personality disorders, which are covered in much more detail at our main site (where we feature Dr Carver’s introduction to dealing with personality disorders in relationships and describe the sets of symptoms employed by psychiatrists as diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and other personality disorders).
This section provides schizophrenia and schizophrenic disorder information to complement the symptoms information and online schizophrenia screening test available at the main site.
Sleep disorders, which interfere with getting a restful night’s sleep, affect some 70 million Americans. While sleep disorders are not considered mental health problems per se, they can exacerbate the symptoms of other forms of psychological distress and can make coping with other forms of distress harder. This section provides information on the more common sleep disorders such as insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and restless legs syndrome, as well as a brief article on hypersomnia.
