Classes of Mental Health Disorders - Depression is a feeling of low mood that lasts for a long time and affects your everyday life. It can make you feel hopeless, despairing, guilty, worthless, unmotivated, and exhausted. In addition, it can affect your self-esteem, sleep, appetite, sex drive, and physical health. - Anxiety is what we feel when we are worried, tense, or afraid—particularly about things that are about to happen or which we think could happen in the future. Occasional anxiety is a typical human experience, but if your feelings of anxiety are very strong or last for a long time, they can be overwhelming. You might also experience physical symptoms such as sleep problems and panic attacks. - Bipolar and related disorders include disorders with alternating episodes of mania – periods of excessive activity, energy, and excitement – and depression. - Eating problems are not just about food. They can be about difficult things and painful feelings that you may find hard to face or resolve. Lots of people think that if you have an eating problem, you will be over- or underweight and that being a certain weight is always associated with a specific eating problem, but this is a myth. Anyone, regardless of age, gender or weight, can be affected by eating problems. Training Module on the Right to Mental Health for Local Health Leaders There are many different mental health problems. Some of them have similar symptoms, so you may experience the symptoms of more than one mental health problem or be given several diagnoses at once. Or you might not have any particular diagnosis but still find things very difficult. Everyone’s experience is different and can change differently. - Trauma- and stressor-related disorders are adjustment disorders in which a person has trouble coping during or after a stressful life event. Examples include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute stress disorder. - Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. Psychotic disorders cause detachment from reality—such as delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking and speech. The most notable example is schizophrenia, although other disorders can be associated with detachment from reality at times. - Sleep-wake disorders are problems in sleep severe enough to require clinical attention, such as insomnia, sleep apnea, and restless legs syndrome. - Sexual dysfunctions include disorders of sexual response, such as premature ejaculation and female orgasmic disorder. - Gender dysphoria refers to the distress accompanying a person’s identification as or stated desire to be another gender. - Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders include emotional and behavioral self-control problems, such as kleptomania or intermittent 10