An eating disorder is an illness that causes serious disturbances to your everyday diet, such as eating extremely small amounts of food or severely overeating. A person with an eating disorder may have started out just eating smaller or larger amounts of food, but at some point, the urge to eat less or more spiraled out of control. Severe distress or concern about body weight or shape may also characterize an eating disorder. Eating disorders...

Anxiety Disorders affect about 40 million American adults age 18 years and older (about 18%) in a given year, causing them to be filled with fearfulness and uncertainty. Unlike the relatively mild, brief anxiety caused by a stressful event (such as speaking in public or a first date), anxiety disorders last at least 6 months and can get worse if they are not treated. Anxiety disorders commonly occur along with other mental or physical...

Depression is a serious medical illness1 that causes a person to feel intensely sad or lose all joy in life, driving the person to lose interest in things he used to enjoy and become hopeless. Every individual goes through phases of feeling low, down, sad, or empty. Under normal circumstances, such feelings will go away after some time. But when an individual persistently experiences intense feelings of sadness2 and emptiness lasting 2 weeks...

What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood disorders and can continue through adolescence and adulthood. Symptoms include difficulty staying focused and paying attention, difficulty controlling behavior, and hyperactivity (over-activity). ADHD has three subtypes:1 Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive Most symptoms (six or more) are in the...