Glossary

Common Mental Health Terms

Disclaimer: Only a psychiatrist/clinical psychologist is authorised to provide diagnosis for mental illness and self-diagnosis using the below provided information should not be initiated.

  • Agnosia
  • Agoraphobia
  • Amnesia
  • Antisocial personality disorder
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Avoidant personality disorder
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Clinical Depression
  • Dependent personality disorder
  • Dysthymia
  • Generalised Anxiety disorder (GAD)
  • Histrionic personality disorder
  • Hypomania
  • Mental health crisis
  • Narcissistic personality disorder
  • Narcolepsy
  • Nightmare disorder
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
  • Panic disorder
  • Paranoid personality disorder
  • Personality disorders
  • Phobia
  • Pica
  • Post-traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Psychotic disorders
  • Psychoticism
  • Purging disorder
  • Rumination disorder
  • Schizoid personality disorder
  • Schizotypal personality disorder
  • Sleep terrors
  • Substance-use disorders (SUDs) / Substance abuse
  • Behaviour therapy
  • Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)
  • Couple therapy / Marital therapy/ Marriage counselling
  • Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
  • Interpersonal psychotherapy
  • Mindfulness-based Cognitive therapy
  • Problem-solving therapy
  • Psychotherapy
  • Reminiscence therapy / Life review therapy
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
  • Yoga therapy
  • Affect
  • Anxiety
  • Arousal
  • Bereavement
  • Delusion
  • Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY)
  • Disability
  • Disease burden
  • Empathy
  • Episode
  • Gender
  • Hallucination
  • Ideas of reference
  • Identity
  • Illusion
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Lifetime Prevalence (LTP)
  • Mental health
  • Mental disorder
  • Mental health literacy
  • Mental health problem
  • Morbidity
  • Neurodivergent
  • Neurodiversity
  • Neurotypical
  • Personality
  • Psychological distress
  • Psychological stressor
  • Psychosocial
  • Sex
  • Stigma
  • Stressor
  • Stress
  • Transgender
  • Transsexual
  • Traumatic stressor
  • Worry
  • Anhedonia
  • Attention seeking
  • Avoidance
  • Avolition
  • Binge-eating
  • Catatonia
  • Compulsion
  • Disinhibition
  • Disorganised Thinking
  • Distractibility
  • Eccentricity
  • Fatigue
  • Flight of ideas
  • Gambling
  • Grandiosity
  • Grimace
  • Hostility
  • Hypersomnia
  • Hypervigilance
  • Impulsivity
  • Incoherence
  • Insomnia
  • Intimacy
  • Lethargy
  • Mania
  • Negative Symptoms
  • Negativism
  • Nervous breakdown
  • Night eating syndrome
  • Non-Suicidal Self-injury
  • Panic attack
  • Psychomotor agitation
  • Psychomotor retardation
  • Rigid perfectionism
  • Risk-taking
  • Sleepwalking
  • Social withdrawal
  • Somnolence
  • Stupor
  • Callousness
  • Detachment
  • Dysphoria
  • Emotional lability
  • Euphoria
  • Fear
  • Mood
  • Negative affectivity
  • Restricted affectivity
  • Separation insecurity
  • Temper outburst
  • Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome
  • Melancholia
  • Restless legs syndrome
  • Seasonal pattern
  • Suicidal thoughts / Suicidal ideation
  • Antidepressant
  • Antipsychotic medications
  • Mood stabilisers
  • Self-medicate
  • Comorbidity
  • Defense mechanism
  • Depersonalisation
  • Derealisation
  • Dissociation
  • Flashback
  • Magical thinking
  • Obsession
  • Paranoid ideation
  • Psychometric measures
  • Psychotic features
  • Racing thoughts
  • Tolerance
  • Dhat Syndrome
  • Shenjing shuairuo
  • Taijin kyofusho

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