Symptom Explorer
Every symptom on the site, filterable by name and Atlas category.
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Anger
A normal, universal emotion, a response to feeling threatened, wronged, or hurt.
Anhedonia
A reduced ability to feel pleasure or interest in things you used to enjoy.
Avoidance
Steering around the places, situations, or feelings that trigger anxiety.
Brain fog
A plain-language term for cloudy, slow, or unfocused thinking.
Catastrophizing
A thinking pattern where the mind jumps to the worst outcome and treats it as likely.
Chest tightness
A feeling of pressure or squeezing in the chest.
Depersonalization
A feeling of being detached from yourself, as if watching your own thoughts and body from outside.
Derealization
A sense that the world around you feels unreal, distant, or dreamlike.
Dizziness
A feeling of being lightheaded, unsteady, or spaced out.
Dread
A heavy sense that something bad is coming, often with no specific cause.
Emotional numbness
A reduced ability to feel emotions, both painful and pleasant.
Fatigue
A persistent tiredness or low energy that rest doesn't fix.
Flashbacks
A vivid re-experiencing of a traumatic event, where part of the past feels like it's happening now.
Guilt
The feeling that you've done something wrong or failed someone.
Hallucinations
Perceiving something that isn't there, an experience that feels real but has no external source.
Hopelessness
A belief that things won't get better.
Hyperarousal
A state in which the nervous system stays switched on and on guard, long after any real threat has passed.
Intrusive thoughts
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted, disturbing thoughts or images that pop into your mind.
Irritability
A lowered threshold for frustration and anger, feeling easily annoyed and short-fused.
Loneliness
The painful feeling of a gap between the connection you have and the one you want.
Low self-esteem
A persistently low or negative view of your own worth.
Mania
A distinct period of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood with high energy.
Mood swings
Noticeable shifts in mood, sometimes rapid or intense.
Nightmares
Distressing, vivid dreams that usually wake you and that you remember.
Overwhelm
The sense that the demands on you exceed your capacity to handle them.
Panic attack
A sudden surge of intense fear that peaks within minutes, with strong physical symptoms.
Paranoia
An intense, unfounded distrust or suspicion of others without good evidence.
Procrastination
Putting off a task you mean to do, even expecting to be worse off for it.
Racing thoughts
Racing thoughts are fast, crowded thinking that jumps from topic to topic and feels hard to slow down.
Reassurance seeking
Repeatedly asking for reassurance to relieve anxiety or doubt.
Restlessness
A physical and mental sense of being unable to settle, keyed up, and needing to move.
Self-harm
Deliberately hurting one's own body to cope with overwhelming emotional pain.
Sleep trouble
Difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or sleep that doesn't restore.
Suicidal thoughts
Thoughts ranging from wishing you weren't here to planning to end your life.
Worry
A chain of "what if" thoughts about possible future problems.
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