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Integrative mental health

Conditions

Understand the diagnosis

What each condition is, how it's diagnosed under the latest standards (DSM-5-TR and ICD-11), and the medications commonly prescribed — including ADHD and neurodivergence.

Mood

Depression

A persistent low mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure that affects how you feel, think, sleep and function.

Persistent depressive disorder

A long-lasting, often lower-grade depressed mood that becomes 'how life feels'.

Perinatal & postnatal depression

Depression that starts during pregnancy or in the year after birth. It is different from the short-lived 'baby blues'.

Seasonal affective disorder

Depression that comes and goes with the seasons, most often in autumn and winter.

Bipolar disorder

Episodes of depression alternating with periods of abnormally elevated or irritable mood and energy (mania or hypomania).

Premenstrual dysphoric disorder

Severe mood symptoms in the week or two before a period that ease once it starts.

Anxiety & fear

Generalised anxiety disorder

Excessive, hard-to-control worry about many everyday things, with physical tension.

Panic disorder

Repeated, unexpected panic attacks followed by ongoing fear of further attacks.

Social anxiety disorder

Intense fear of social situations where you might be watched, judged or embarrassed.

Specific phobia

Intense, persistent fear of a specific thing or situation, such as heights, animals or needles.

Health anxiety

Persistent preoccupation with having or developing a serious illness, despite reassurance.

Obsessive-compulsive

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Unwanted, distressing intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive actions or mental rituals (compulsions) done to relieve them.

Trauma & stress

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Ongoing re-experiencing, avoidance and a sense of current threat after a frightening or traumatic event.

Complex PTSD

PTSD plus long-term difficulties with emotions, self-worth and relationships, usually after prolonged or repeated trauma.

Adjustment disorder

Distress and difficulty coping that develops after a stressful life change like a breakup, job loss or illness.

Neurodevelopmental & neurodivergence

ADHD

A lifelong difference in attention, activity and impulse control that starts in childhood and often continues into adulthood.

Autism

A lifelong neurodevelopmental difference in how people communicate, socialise and experience the world.

Dyslexia & specific learning differences

Persistent difficulties with reading, writing or maths that are unexpected for a person's overall ability.

Dyspraxia (DCD)

A lifelong difference in coordination and motor planning that affects everyday tasks like handwriting, dressing or sport.

Tourette syndrome & tic disorders

Sudden, repetitive movements or sounds (tics) that are hard to control.

Psychosis

Schizophrenia

A condition affecting how a person perceives reality, with symptoms like hallucinations, delusions and disorganised thinking.

Eating

Anorexia nervosa

Restricting food intake leading to significantly low body weight, with intense fear of gaining weight.

Bulimia nervosa

Repeated binge eating followed by compensating behaviours like vomiting, laxatives, fasting or over-exercise.

Binge-eating disorder

Recurrent episodes of eating large amounts with a sense of loss of control, without regular compensating behaviours.

Sleep

Insomnia

Persistent difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or waking too early, despite the chance to sleep.

Personality

Borderline personality disorder

Long-standing patterns of intense, fast-changing emotions, unstable relationships and self-image, and impulsive behaviour.

Substance use

Alcohol use disorder

A pattern of drinking that causes harm and is hard to control.