Diseases & Health Conditions
Educational information about diseases, symptoms, and related treatments
Anorexia nervosa
Anorexia nervosa (BSL) | Anorexia nervosa (audio) | Anorexia nervosa (easy read) Anorexia nervosa is...
Anxiety disorders in children and young people
Anxiety is a feeling of unease, like worry or fear. In children and young people, it's an understand...
Binge eating disorder (BED)
Binge eating disorder (BED) is a serious eating disorder. A person with BED regularly eats very larg...
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder is a condition that affects your mood. You are likely to go through periods where y...
Bulimia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa is a serious eating disorder and mental health condition. If you are living with bul...
Depression
Depression is a mental health condition with a range of symptoms that can affect how you think and f...
Eating disorders
Eating disorders are serious mental health conditions. A person with an eating disorder regularly ea...
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
Anxiety is a feeling of unease, like worry or fear, and it can be mild or severe. It's the main symp...
Insomnia
Insomnia is when you have trouble sleeping. It can mean struggling to get to sleep in the first plac...
Munchausen syndrome
Munchausen syndrome is a rare mental health condition where a person pretends to be ill. They may ev...
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition. It causes unwanted, obsessive thou...
Panic disorder
Panic disorder means you keep having panic attacks, often without any clear reason. Everyone feels...
Personality disorder
A personality disorder means a person tends to think, feel, behave or connect with others in ways th...
Phobias
A phobia is a common kind of anxiety disorder. Lots of people are afraid of things, but fear only be...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health problem that follows a traumatic event. It...
Postnatal depression
Postnatal depression is a form of depression that many parents go through after having a baby. It a...
Psychosis
Psychosis is a serious mental health condition, and it's fairly common too.
Psychotic depression
Some people with severe depression also develop symptoms of psychosis, such as hallucinations or del...
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition. It causes several different psychological sympto...
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
Seasonal affective disorder, usually shortened to SAD, is a form of depression that follows the seas...
Self-harm
Self-harm is when somebody deliberately damages or injures their own body. It has been described as...
Social anxiety disorder
Social anxiety disorder, also called social phobia, is a long-term and overwhelming fear of social s...