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Based on your responses to the questions in the Symptom Checker, here are some conditions you may
want to learn more about. This page is designed to help you be informed and guide you towards next steps.

It is important to understand that these results are not a diagnosis. If information on a particular disorder
appears in your results, it does not necessarily mean that your child meets the criteria for that disorder. It
does mean that you reported symptoms associated with that disorder. Also, please keep in mind that each
disorder shown in your results is independent of any other, so consider each on it’s own.

Remember, these results are purely educational and are not intended to replace the advice, diagnosis, or
treatment offered by a medical or mental health professional. If you believe your child has a psychiatric
or learning disorder, please consult a professional.

If someone you know is expressing suicidal thoughts, we encourage you to call 988 immediately.

Major Depressive Disorder

Major depressive disorder (often referred to as clinical depression) is a mood disorder

characterized by periods of profound sadness and feelings of hopelessness. People with
major depressive disorder may experience extended periods of relative normal mood
between episodes of depression.

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Adjustment Disorder

Adjustment disorder is an unusually strong or long-lasting reaction to a stressful event

such as divorce, a death in the family, or moving to a new house or school.

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Social Anxiety Disorder

Social anxiety disorder, or social phobia, is characterized by persistent and excessive

self-consciousness about being judged negatively by others and avoidance of anything
that may cause humiliation.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Children with generalized anxiety disorder experience pervasive worry about a variety
of everyday things. In children the anxiety is often focused on performance in school or
sports.

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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Children with ADHD have a persistent pattern of inattention or hyperactivity and

impulsivity that exceeds the typical range for the child’s age and interferes with his
functioning.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by social communication deficits and

restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior and interests. ASD appears in early childhood,
though it may not be immediately apparent and there is a wide range of impairment.

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Conduct Disorder

Conduct disorder (CD) is characterized by emotionally and sometimes physically violent

behavior, cruelty and a disregard for others.

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Children and adolescents with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) are persistently at
odds with authority figures, are very quick to lose their tempers, and have trouble
getting along with others.

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Separation Anxiety Disorder

Children with separation anxiety disorder experience extreme distress when they are
separated from parents or caregivers. Besides fearing separation itself, these children
may worry that something horrible will happen to them or their family members when
they are apart.

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Panic Disorder

Panic disorder is characterized by repeated, unpredictable panic attacks that can include
feelings of impending death and heart attack-like symptoms, such as palpitations,
shortness of breath and dizziness. Attacks may be triggered by a variety of cues, and fear
of an attack can trigger a fresh one.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Children with obsessive-compulsive disorder are plagued by unwanted and stressful

thoughts and fears which they try to alleviate by performing compulsive rituals like
counting or washing their hands.

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is characterized by distorted thinking, hallucinations, delusions, social

isolation and flat affect.

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Sleep-Wake Disorders

Sleep-wake disorders is an umbrella term for more than a dozen specific conditions that
impair the quality or quantity of sleep a child gets enough to undermine her overall
health and functioning. The most common of these disorders in children and adolescents
is insomnia, or difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep.

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Selective Mutism

Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which a child is unable to speak in some
settings and to some people. A child with SM may talk normally at home, or when alone
with her parents, but cannot speak at all, or speak above a whisper, in other social
settings, including at school.

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Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depressive disorder, involves bouts of depression
and periods of mania. Symptoms of mania include euphoria, poor judgment and extreme
risk-taking.

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Language Disorder

Children with language disorder struggle with both understanding and speaking
language. It is distinct from speech sound disorder, which consists of problems
producing sound.

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Speech Sound Disorder

Children with speech sound disorder have difficulty forming speech sounds. They may
have trouble articulating individual sounds, being understood, modulating the volume
and timing of speech, and they may stutter or lisp.

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Gender Dysphoria

A child with gender dysphoria experiences great anguish as a result of feeling “trapped”
inside a body that does not match the gender he or she experiences internally.

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Hoarding Disorder

A person with hoarding disorder will not only acquire objects in great excess, but also
feel unable or unwilling to part with them, causing great personal and family distress.

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Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) is a condition in which a child is
chronically irritable and experiences frequent, severe temper outbursts that seem
grossly out of proportion to the situation at hand.

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder brought on by exposure to a

disturbing event. Symptoms include detachment, difficulty sleeping, irritability,
dreaming about the traumatic event, and reenacting it during playtime.

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Acute Stress Disorder

Acute stress disorder occurs when a child has a particularly strong reaction to a
traumatic event that causes ongoing distress and impairment.

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Chronic Motor or Vocal Tic Disorders

Tics are sudden, recurrent, involuntary movements or vocalizations, such as blinking,

twitching or coughing. If a child has both motor and vocal tics, he is diagnosed with
Tourette's disorder; if he has only motor tics or vocal tics, he is diagnosed with chronic
motor or vocal tic disorder.

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Social Communication Disorder

Social communication disorder is characterized by challenges with pragmatics — the

area of linguistics that has to do with how meaning is created and interpreted in verbal
and nonverbal interactions. Children with this disorder have difficulty using language in
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Excoriation Disorder

Excoriation disorder is characterized by recurrent skin picking, resulting in skin lesions.

Some children with the disorder say that picking at their skin makes them feel good, but
not all children affected by the disorder do it intentionally, or even consciously.

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Trichotillomania

Trichotillomania is characterized by the urge to pull out hair from the scalp or other
parts of the body, including the eyelashes, brows, genitals, back, arms and legs. Kids
often pull hair out unconsciously.

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Tourette's Disorder

Tourette's disorder is a neurological condition characterized by involuntary movements

and sounds called “tics,” such as blinking, twitching, barking, throat clearing, coughing
or repeating certain words. If a child has both motor and sound tics, it can be Tourette's.
If he has only one or the other, it can be chronic motor or vocal tic disorder.

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Bulimia Nervosa

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by out-of-control eating offset by

fasting, extreme exercise or purging — voiding food by self-induced vomiting or other
means. Kids with bulimia, unlike those with anorexia, often maintain a healthy weight
but the way they go about it is very unhealthy.

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Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by severe weight loss, a

significantly low body weight, intense fear of getting fat, and a distorted body image that
drives an otherwise high-functioning person — usually a young woman — to starve
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Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal

relationships, self-image and moods, and an impairing level of social impulsivity.

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Specific Learning Disorder

Specific learning disorder includes reading-related (dyslexia) and math-related

(dyscalculia) disorders under a single umbrella.

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