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Mental Health

Mental Health. What is mental illness?. Mental illness affects the mind and reduces a person’s ability to function, to adjust to change, or to get along with others. For example, a mental disorder could affect a person’s ability to study, keep a job or make friends. .

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Mental Health

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  1. Mental Health

  2. What is mental illness? • Mental illness affects the mind and reduces a person’s ability to function, to adjust to change, or to get along with others. • For example, a mental disorder could affect a person’s ability to study, keep a job or make friends.

  3. What causes mental disorders? • Physical Factors: a growth or tumor in the brain, an injury to the brain, or an infection that destroys the brain cells. Exposure to lead, prolonged alcohol or drug abuse can damage the brain. • Heredity: a person may inherit a tendency toward a mental disorder. This person is at a greater risk if events in his/her life act as triggers for the disorder. • Early Experience’s: extreme negative experiences that occur early in life can lead to a mental illness. (Child neglect or abuse) • Recent Experience’s : death of a loved one or other traumatic events can trigger a mental illness.

  4. Anxiety Disorders • Anxiety is a fear caused by a source you cannotidentify or a source that doesn’t pose as much threat as you think. • Anxiety Disorder: When anxiety persists for a long time and interferes with daily living. • In any 6-month period 10% of Americans have an anxiety disorder. • Phobia’s, Panic Attacks, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders.

  5. Phobia’s • A phobia is an anxiety that is related to a specific situation or object. • Heights- Acrophobia • Small Spaces- Claustrophobia • Spiders- Arachnophobia

  6. Panic Attack • These attacks are a symptom of a panic disorder, an anxiety disorder that affects some 2.4 million US adults. This disorder often begins during the late teens and early adulthood and strikes twice as many women as men. • Fast heart rate • Rapid breathing • Sweating • Trembling or shaking • Nausea • Chest pain

  7. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder • An obsession is an unwanted thought or image that takes control of the mind. • An obsession may lead to a compulsion, an unreasonable need to behave in a certain way to prevent a feared outcome. • Hand washing, counting, light switch flipping and touching objects. (Monk)

  8. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • People who survive a life-threatening event may develop PTSD. • The may have flashbacks or nightmares that produce intense fear or horror. They may be unable to sleep or concentrate. Because situations that remind them of the event can produce intense anxiety, they begin to avoid those situations. • They may feel guilty that they survived and others did not.

  9. Other Mental Disorders • Some teens and young adults have mood disorders or schizophrenia. Others have impulse control disorders or personality disorders. • People who have mood disorders experience extreme emotions that make it difficult to function well in their daily lives. • Bipolar disorder is an example of a mood disorder. People who suffer from bipolar disorder shift from one emotional extreme to another for no apparent reason. Extreme highs and lows (manic-depressive or manic depression) • During a manic episode, people are usually overly excited and restless. • Depression: emotional state in which a person feels extremely sad and hopeless

  10. Schizophrenia • Schizophrenia: severe turbulence in thinking, mood, awareness and behavior. • Schizophrenia means “split mind.” People with this disorder are “split off” or separated from reality. • People who have schizophrenia are rarely harmful to others. At times they may even appear normal. At other times, they may talk to themselves, display inappropriate emotional responses, dress and act strangely and withdraw from others. They may develop fears that are not supported by reality and may believe that someone or something controls their thoughts or wants to harm them.

  11. Impulse Control Disorders • People with impulse control disorders cannot resist the impulse, or drive, to act in a way that is harmful to themselves or others. • People who have an impulse to take items that they don’t need or even want are called kleptomaniacs. • 75 million people in the US cannot control the urge to gamble.

  12. Personality Disorders • People who have a personality disorder display rigid patterns of behavior that make it difficult for them to get along with others. • Group A: tend to be cold and distant • Group B: tend to be overly emotional and unstable • Group C: tend to have problems decision making

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