( Related information) Mental health problems are real. They affect one's thoughts, body, feelings, and behavior. Mental health problems are not just a passing phase. They can be severe, seriously interfere with a person's life, and even cause a person to become disabled. Mental health problems include depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, schizophrenia, and conduct disorder.

A disruption in the interaction between the individual, the group and the environment, producing a diminished state of mental health.

Mental health problems are real. These problems affect one's thoughts, body, feelings, and behavior. They can be severe. They can seriously interfere with a person's life. They're not just a passing phase. They can cause a person to become disabled. Some of these disorders are known as depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, schizophrenia, and conduct disorder.

Diminished cognitive, emotional or social abilities, but not to the extent that the criteria for a mental disorder are met.

More common mental health complaints and includes mental ill health temporarily experienced as a reaction to life stresses. Usually less severe and of a shorter duration than mental illness.