Mental Disorder Research

Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder is a mental health problem that mainly affects your mood. If you have bipolar disorder, you are likely to have times where you experience:

Manic or hypomanic episodes (feeling high)

Depressive episodes (feeling low)

Potentially some psychotic symptoms during manic or depressed episodes

Everyone has variations in their mood, but in bipolar disorder these changes can be very distressing and have a big impact on your life. You may feel that your high and low moods are extreme, and that swings in your mood are overwhelming.

Claustrophobia

An extreme or irrational fear of confined places

Body dysmorphic disorder

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is an anxiety disorder that causes a person to have a distorted view of how they look and to spend a lot of time worrying about their appearance.

Cotard delusion

Cotard's syndrome and walking corpse syndrome is a rare mental illness, in which an afflicted person holds the delusion that they are dead,

Delirium tremens

Is a rapid onset of confusion usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol. When it occurs, it is often three days into the withdrawal symptoms and lasts for two to three days. People may also see or hear things other people do not. Physical effects may include shaking, shivering, irregular heart rate, and sweating. Occasionally, a very high body temperature or seizures may result in death.

Autophagia

The majority of individuals affected by this disorder will often feel a sense of tension or arousal before committing the act, and then experience pleasure, gratification or relief at the time of committing the act. Once the act has been completed, the individual may or may not feel regret, self-reproach, or guilt.
Autophagia occurs when one is compelled to inflict pain upon oneself by biting and/or devouring portions of one's body. It is sometimes seen with schizophrenia.

Excoriation disorder

Excoriation, is a disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pick at one's own skin, often to the extent that damage is caused.

Exhibitionism

A mental condition characterized by the compulsion to display one's genitals in public.

Fregoli delusion

The Fregoli delusion, or the delusion of doubles, is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that different people are in fact a single person who changes appearance or is in disguise

Kleptomania

A recurrent urge to steal, typically without regard for need or profit

Persecutory delusions

Persecutory delusions are a set of delusional conditions in which the affected person believes they are being persecuted. Specifically, they have been defined as containing two central elements: The individual thinks that harm is occurring, or is going to occur.

Panic disorder

Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by recurring panic attacks, causing a series of intense episodes of extreme anxiety during panic attacks. It may also include significant behavioral changes, and ongoing worries about having other attacks

OCD

Obsessive–compulsive disorder is a mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly, perform certain routines repeatedly called rituals, or have certain thoughts repeatedly. People are unable to control either the thoughts or the activities. Common activities include hand washing, counting of things, and checking to see if a door is locked. Some may have difficulty throwing things out. These activities occur to such a degree that the person's daily life is negatively affected.

Tardive dyskinesia

Tardive dyskinesia is a difficult-to-treat and often incurable disorder resulting in involuntary, repetitive body movements

Trichotillomania

Trichotillomania is an obsessive compulsive disorder characterized by the compulsive urge to pull out one's hair, leading to hair loss and balding, distress, and social or functional impairment.

Gender Dysphoria

The condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex.

Boanthropy

Boanthropy is a psychological disorder in which a human believes himself or herself to be a cow

Alien hand syndrome

Alien hand syndrome is a rare  disorder that causes hand movement without the person being aware of what is happening or having control over the action. The afflicted person may sometimes reach for objects and manipulate them without wanting to do so, even to the point of having to use the controllable hand to restrain the alien hand.