If you have been looking through our site and recognise that you suffer from one of these disorders, the first step is to talk to someone about your illness. Often this is the first step on the road to recovery.

(You can click on the links for a more indepth explanation of each disorder)

• Agoraphobia: Anxiety/Panic Attacks with an avoidance of situations which involve enclosed spaces i.e. bridges, motorways, flying, lifts, etc.

• Social Phobia: Anxiety/Panic attacks with a phobia of people related situations; ie: telephones, public speaking, school, restaurants, etc.

• School Phobia:  The sudden aversion to or fear of attending school that occurs in young children, considered a manifestation of separation anxiety.

• Mono or Specific Disorders: An excessive fear of spiders, balloons, birds etc. Hypochondriasis - A preoccupation with a fear of having, or the belief that one has a serious disease, based on the persons interpretation of physical signs or sensations as evidence of physical illness.

• Generalised Anxiety Disorder: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, GAD, is an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic anxiety, exaggerated worry and tension, even when there is little or nothing to provoke it.

• Depersonalization Disorder: A experience of feeling detached from and as if one is an outside observer of ones mental processes or body. 2. An experience or feeling like an automation or as if in a dream.

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD):   A psychiatric anxiety disorder most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or "rituals") which attempt to neutralize the obsessions.

• Body Dysmorphic Disorder:   A preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance (of a normal appearing person), often co-morbid with depression and social phobia.

• Eating Disorders: An eating disorder is a compulsion to eat, or avoid eating, that negatively affects both one's physical and mental health.

• Panic Disorders: The medical term for a psychiatric condition characterized by recurring panic attacks in combination with significant behavioral change or at least a month of ongoing worry about the implications or concern about having other attacks.

• Kleptomania:  A complex disorder characterized by repeated, failed attempts to stop stealing.

• Trichotillomania:   The inability to resist the urge to pluck ones own hair. Resulting in noticeable hair loss.

• Compulsive Gambling:    Frequent preoccupation with gambling or having money to gamble.

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:   An anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying events in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened.

All of the above disorders/disabilities are likely to be co-morbid with depression, alcoholism, substance abuse and other states.