What is this mental illness?

a girl I know exhibits the following symptoms
extremely talkative, (often telling me things about herself and family you would not tell unless you were very close)
worries about unlikey events such as terrorist attack on our tiny village
small incidences such as a bus a few minutes late seem to be a huge deal.

shes a nice girl but obvoiusly got some sort of mental health problem but what is it? ( she seems to have latched onto me and i would like to know how to handle her if relevant)

Sounds more like a quirk than an illness. A lot of people worry about terroism, it is in thenews with an alarming frequency.

I do get panicky if the bus is late, I know I've been on a train that has been 5 minutes late, which meant missing a connection train afterwards. She could just be a litte anxious, try talking ot her to distract her from the bus being a little late.

Some people are naturally very talkative, I know I can be sometimes. Some people really don't think about discretion, or she may have been taught it was acceptable to talk about those things, whereas you've been taught not to talk about those in public.

If you are concerned that she dos have a mental illness, then tell her and encourage her to see a doctor.

It is called " being female" typical symptoms.

Sound like general panic disorder. This gives people a "what if?" thinking.

Being a friend and someone she can rely on, is the best thing you can do for her. Although professional help would probably also be a good idea.

from what you said she could either have bipolar disorder or psychotic depression. Obviously she needs to go see a doctor for a proper screening.

Anxiety disorder.

She in training to be your wife.

-tcw

everyone has symptoms of mental illness from time to time, but that doesn't mean your friend has one.

she could be like this because she was 'taught' to be worried about everything... we do tend to live what we learn growing up. some people are very talkative, also, and do not know what needs to be kept private and what can be discussed in mixed company.

i suppose that, if your friend thinks she has an emotional problem or mental health issue, she will see a doctor.

you can't "handle her".... friendship is about acceptance. if you want to be her friend, accept her, otherwise, find other friends.

take care.

Not necessarily mental ill health.Depends on her age.She may be insecure,fancy you or at worst be a little neurotic.This seems more a personality quirk than anything else.

No problem, its just an anxiety personality. you can't say every behavior a problem,, otherwise every one will be labeled with some kind of mental problem. See, some people reach station much earlier as if train will come before time, will you call them Anxiety, some are coming in exact time or a few minutes before, are they obsessive and this is not all, some reach while train is already running or catching speed, are they schizophrenic. No they all are different people of having different personality.Are we going to put such personalities in abnormal group of people ?

There is not really enough information here for me to come up with a conclusive diagnosis. I would need to meet the girl and carry out a large number of tests and it may take up to a week even more to establish a firm diagnosis. Medical examinations would need to be carried out. But informally and based on the limited information and if my life depended on it I would have to say she is hypervigilant and possibly codependent.

I think there are two thingsthat may be going on here. One she may have a variation of autism couipled with ADHD and a dependency to be close to someone. Or she has a thing for you paired with the first two things I said.

Maybe bi-polar. The talking and irrationale fear and agitation sound like classic symptoms.
These occur in the 'manic' phase.
just take her as she comes, and try not to take anything she says or does too personally, she will seem to lose her 'tactfulness' gene if manic.
It is an illness, and she probably can't help herself half the time.
My partner has this and spends half his time doing as we say above, and most of the other half worrying who he upset, where, when and how etc!