A psychiatric disorder is a mental illness diagnosed by a mental health professional that greatly disturbs your thinking, moods, and/or behavior and seriously increases your risk of disability, pain, death, or loss of freedom.1 In addition, your symptoms must be more severe than expected response to an upsetting event, such as normal grief after the loss of a loved one
A large number of psychiatric disorders have been identified.3 Chances are that, whether or not you or someone close to you has been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, you know something about one or more of the following examples:
Examples of ongoing signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders include:
The following list describes the main types (often called classes or categories) of psychiatric disorders
