Anxiety can be reduced down to 2 thoughts; fear of something ‘bad’ happening in the future, and fear of not being able to handle that ‘bad’ thing. Anxiety Disorders include: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Agoraphobia (fear of situations or places), and Social Phobia.

For some individuals, the cause of depression can be biological. An imbalance in the chemical transmitters of the brain can cause depression. This depressive episode may last anywhere from a few hours to several days or weeks. One of the factors that prolong the biological type depression is continued self downing thoughts.

Bipolar Disorder was previously called manic-depressive disorder. This means the individual suffers from a cycle of manic symptoms and depressive symptoms. The cycle can be as short as minutes to hours or days. When an individual is in the depressive state, they suffer from the symptoms mentioned in the previous disorder. When the person is in the manic state, they suffer from thoughts of grandiosity.

Personality Disorders manifest in a combination of symptoms. These symptoms include, anxiety, depression, anger, rage, fear of abandonment, anti-social behavior, manic, grandiose, narcissism, paranoia, avoidance, inappropriate affect (feelings), impulsively, dependent, and ruminations. Included under personality disorders are Borderline Personality Disorder, and Anti-Social Personality Disorder.

Panic Disorder is a common anxiety disorder where the individual experiences panic attacks and worries about having another. These panic attacks usually come “out of the blue” and not provoked by anything. Although, there are situations that provoke panic attacks, such as being confined to closed spaces. Panic attacks are usually so disturbing that individuals that suffer from them try to avoid situations that provoke them, such as trains, busses, and elevators.