Ruby was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at age 12 and with an eating disorder at age 15. Treating Ruby will likely be difficult because she has two mental health disorders. What do health professionals call this type of situation?

Comorbidity means that a person has two or more disorders at the same time. Ruby has both an anxiety disorder and an eating disorder, so this situation is called comorbidity. Bipolar disorder is a specific mental health disorder, not the term for having multiple disorders.

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