Common illnesses

Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that changes how a person thinks, feels and behaves. 

Drinking alcohol in moderation is acceptable for many people, but regularly drinking more than this may be harmful to mental and physical health. 

Problem anxiety can take various forms: panic attacks, incredible fear about situations or objects that are not actually dangerous, uncontrollable concerns and worry or compulsive repetition of certain behaviours in order to try to reduce anxiety.

Bipolar disorder, which used to be called manic depressive illness, is a disorder of mood, characterised by extreme mood swings.

Dissociation is a mental process where there is a lack of connection between memories, thoughts, feelings, actions or sense of identity.

The three main eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia and compulsive overeating.

Post natal depression is a term used to describe mood disorders occurring to women in the first year after birth of a child.

Deliberate self-harm is when someone deliberately inflicts physical harm on themselves, often done in secret.