What are some examples of psychiatric illnesses?

multiple: Examples include anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, psychosis, phobias, ocd, etc. Etc. Etc.

Psychiatric illness: There are too many examples to enumerate. Psychiatric illness manifests itself as producing considerable distress in the person's life, and hindering his or her performance in the educational, laboral or social areas of functioning. It is necessary to reach a diagnosis of the illness in order to treat it, done by primary care or general physicians, or psychiatrists and mental health workers.

The most common ones: Anxiety disorders: chronic worry (gad), social anxiety (sad), trauma (ptsd), compulsions and obsessions (ocd), mood disorders: highs and lows (bipolar, cyclothymic), depression (major, dysthymic, chronic), psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorders (hallucinations and delusions plus highs or lows), personality disorders, eating disorders (bulimia, binge, anorexia), drug and etoh.