A condition characterized by sad, empty, or irritable mood for at least two weeks. It is often accompanied by bodily and cognitive changes which can affect functioning in work and relationships.

A condition marked by apprehensiveness about the future and/or physical symptoms of hyperarousal. It can present as generalized worrying, panic attacks, phobias, or social discomfort.

These are mood disorders in which periods of depression can alternate with periods of mania. Manias are excited euphoric or irritable states which can cause racing thoughts, impulsive behavior, and decreased need for sleep.

Obsessions are recurrent thoughts, urges, or images that are intrusive and unwanted. Compulsions are the behaviors or mental acts that a person feels they must do to somehow counter the obsessions. Often abbreviated as OCD, these are distressing and time-consuming conditions.

These are a group of disorders associated with exposure to a traumatic or stressful event. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is an example.

Somatic symptoms are ones that are experienced physically, like pain or numbness. It becomes a psychiatric condition when the somatic symptoms are associated with distress and maladaptive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors about the symptoms.

Examples include anxorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.

Sometime insomnia can occur as an illness in itself and not as a feature of another condition. There are also some specific conditions in this category, like narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea, shift work circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorder, and restless legs syndrome.

These conditions require an in-depth consultation because there are so many psychological, relationship, and medical conditions that can cause problems in sexual interest, arousal, and orgasm.

This condition is interesting because it is both over- and under-diagnosed. There can be significant consequences in getting the diagnosis right. It requires an in-depth consultation to determine whether the issues are related to a different condition, or whether they are part of true ADHD. The diagnosis applies even when the problems are mainly attentional or mainly hyperactive/impulsive.

We can treat mild or sometimes moderate instances of addiction.

This term refers to the many ways that one’s experienced gender conflicts with assigned gender.

These refer to inflexible personality traits that cause distress or impaired functioning.

Life issues in love or work: Sometimes a person does not feel that they have a psychiatric illness but instead wants help with unsatisfying patterns in intimate, family, or friend relationships or in job or career advancement.