Someone you know right now will have a mental health problem, they just don’t know how to tell you.
Anxiety & panic attacks
Anxiety is a normal emotion that we all experience but becomes a mental health problem when someone finds they are feeling this way all or most of the time.
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder is a diagnosis given to someone who experiences extreme periods of low (depressed) and high (manic) moods.
Depression
Depression is a diagnosis given to someone who is experiencing a low mood and who finds it hard or impossible to have fun or enjoy their lives.
Eating disorders
An eating disorder is a diagnosis given to someone who has unhealthy thoughts, feelings and behavior about food and their body shape.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental health diagnosis given to someone who experiences obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.
Self harm
Self-harm is when someone purposely hurts themselves, usually in order to cope with intense emotional distress.
This is so helpful and so true. people around us can really be struggling and we wouldn’t even know. this post really helped me check on my friends every once and a while too.
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