*1. ** Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

• Signs/Symptoms: Excessive worry and anxiety about a variety of things, such as work, school, health, or relationships. This worry can be difficult to control and can interfere with daily life.
• Treatments: Therapy, medication, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their anxiety, develop coping mechanisms, and manage their symptoms.

**2. ** Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)

• Signs/Symptoms: Fear of social situations, such as meeting new people, speaking in public, or eating in front of others. This fear can lead to avoidance of social situations and can interfere with daily life.
• Treatments: Therapy, medication, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their anxiety, develop coping mechanisms, and manage their symptoms.

**3. ** Specific Phobia

• Signs/Symptoms: An intense fear of a specific object or situation, such as heights, spiders, or needles. This fear can lead to avoidance of the object or situation and can interfere with daily life.
• Treatments: Therapy, medication, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their phobia, develop coping mechanisms, and manage their symptoms.

**4. ** Panic Disorder

• Signs/Symptoms: Recurrent, unexpected panic attacks. A panic attack is a sudden episode of intense fear and anxiety that can cause physical symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, and sweating.
• Treatments: Therapy, medication, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their panic disorder, develop coping mechanisms, and manage their symptoms.

**5. ** Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

• Signs/Symptoms: Persistent sadness, loss of interest in activities, changes in appetite, sleep disturbance, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and thoughts of death or suicide.
• Treatments: Therapy, medication, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their depression, develop coping mechanisms, and manage their symptoms.

**6. ** Bipolar Disorder

• Signs/Symptoms: Episodes of mania, which are periods of abnormally elevated mood, and episodes of depression. Mania can cause symptoms such as racing thoughts, decreased need for sleep, increased energy, and impulsive behavior.
• Treatments: Therapy, medication, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their bipolar disorder, develop coping mechanisms, and manage their symptoms.

**7. ** Schizophrenia

• Signs/Symptoms: Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, and negative symptoms such as social withdrawal and apathy.
• Treatments: Medication, therapy, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their schizophrenia, develop coping mechanisms, and manage their symptoms.

**8. ** Personality Disorders

• Signs/Symptoms: A pervasive pattern of inflexible and maladaptive thinking, feeling, and behaving that begins in early adulthood and causes significant distress or impairment.
• Treatments: Therapy, medication, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their personality disorder, develop coping mechanisms, and manage their symptoms.

**9. ** Eating Disorders

• Signs/Symptoms: Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. These disorders are characterized by abnormal eating behaviors and thoughts about food.
• Treatments: Therapy, medication, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their eating disorder, develop coping mechanisms, and manage their symptoms.

**10. ** Substance Use Disorders

• Signs/Symptoms: Alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and addiction. These disorders are characterized by the misuse of substances such as alcohol, drugs, and prescription medications.
• Treatments: Therapy, medication, or a combination of both.
• Nurse’s Role: The nurse can help the client to understand their substance use disorder