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Mental Illness

Mental Illness. Statistics: 20% of Canadians will personally experience a mental illness in their lifetime. Mental illness affects people of all ages, educational and income levels, and cultures. Approximately 8% of adults will experience major depression at some time in their lives.

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Mental Illness

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  1. Mental Illness Statistics: 20% of Canadians will personally experience a mental illness in their lifetime. Mental illness affects people of all ages, educational and income levels, and cultures. Approximately 8% of adults will experience major depression at some time in their lives. About 1% of Canadians will experience bipolar disorder (or "manic depression"). From: Canadian Mental Health Association website

  2. Mental Illness Stigma: Definition: 1. brand, stain, blemish, defect, a scar - a mark of    shame or discreditStigma is the use of negative labels to identify a person living with mental illness. …

  3. Mental Illness Stigma: Definition: 1. brand, stain, blemish, defect, a scar - a mark of    shame or discreditStigma is the use of negative labels to identify a person living with mental illness… It is about disrespect and keeps mental illness in the closet. Stigma is a barrier and discourages individuals and their families from getting the help they need. It closes minds and fuels discrimination. Many say that living with the stigma is worse than living with the illness itself.

  4. What is mental illness? Mental illness: • A disorderly functioning of the mind • Abnormal behaviour – behaviour that is out of the ordinary and does not conform to the behaviour of most people • What is normal anyway?

  5. What is mental illness? What is normal behaviour? • "When will you understand that being normal isn't necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.“ –unknown • “To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.” – Carl Jung • “The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.” – Joe Ancis

  6. Changing Views of Mental Illness

  7. Myths of Mental Illness True or False… • People with mental illness are violent and dangerous… • People with mental illness are poor and/or less intelligent… • Mental illness is caused by a personal weakness… • Mental illness is a single, rare disorder…

  8. Myths of Mental Illness True or False… • People with mental illness are violent and dangerous… The truth is that, as a group, mentally ill people are no more violent than any other group. In fact, they are far more likely to be the victims of violence than to be violent themselves (2.5 times more likely).

  9. Myths of Mental Illness True or False… • People with mental illness are poor and/or less intelligent… Many studies show that mentally ill people have average or above-average intelligence. Mental illness, like physical illness, can affect anyone regardless of intelligence, social class or income level.

  10. Myths of Mental Illness True or False… • Mental illness is caused by a personal weakness… A mental illness is not a character flaw. It is an illness, and it has nothing to do with being weak or lacking will-power. Although people with mental illness can play a big part in their own recovery, they did not choose to become ill, and they are not lazy because they cannot just ‘snap out of it.’

  11. Myths of Mental Illness True or False… • Mental illness is a single, rare disorder… Mental illness is not a single disease but a broad classification for many disorders.

  12. Categories of Mental Illness Since 1980, the most important categories according to the DSM III R (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) are: Anxiety Disorders Mood Disorders Schizophrenic Disorders Personality Disorders Substance-Related

  13. Categories of Mental Illness Let’s look at the different manifestations of each disorder

  14. Anxiety Disorders Generalized anxiety disorder: • What does anxiety look like in someone without the disorder? • Can occur without an obvious reason • Freud was one of first to diagnose and treat anxiety

  15. Anxiety Disorders Phobias

  16. Anxiety Disorders Phobia: a form of anxiety that involves an intense, irrational fear of certain objects or situations • What is the difference between an everyday fear and a phobia?

  17. Anxiety Disorders Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): • Obsession: a persistent or unwanted thought • Compulsion: the tendency to perform an act repeatedly in order to relieve the anxiety

  18. Mood Disorders Major Depression: • What are synonyms for the word depressed or depression? Bipolar Affective Disorder: • Movement between 2 extreme moods • Formally known as “Manic Depression”

  19. Schizophrenic Disorders Schizophrenia: When in remission, a person with schizophrenia may seem relatively unaffected and can more or less function in society. During relapse, however, it is a different story. People with schizophrenia may experience one or all of these main conditions: • delusions and/or hallucinations, • lack of motivation, • social withdrawal, • thought disorders.

  20. Personality Disorders • Those with a personality disorder possess several distinct psychological features including: • disturbances in self-image • ability to have successful interpersonal relationships • appropriateness of range of emotion • ways of perceiving themselves, others, and the world • difficulty possessing proper impulse control • There are ten different types of personality disorders that exist, which all have various emphases.

  21. Substance-Related Disorders • Refers to the harmful use of substances such as alcohol, tobacco or drugs • Usually referred to as substance “abuse” or substance “dependence” • When does “use” spill over into “abuse”? • Why is substance abuse considered a mental disorder?

  22. Categories of Mental Illness

  23. Getting Help • Let’s discuss the various methods of treatment currently used:

  24. The Media and Mental Illness • People with mental disorders are, many times, not described accurately or realistically in the media. • Can you think of songs, music videos, movies, TV shows, games where there may be an inaccurate or negative portrayal of a person with mental illness?

  25. The Media and Mental Illness • News stories sometimes highlight mental illness to create a sensation in a news report, even if the mental illness is not relevant to the story. • Advertisers use words like ‘crazy’ to convey that their prices are unrealistically low and that consumers can take advantage of them.

  26. Activity: Thinking About Stigma • Now that you know more about mental illness, take another look at the article entitled ‘Is Britney Spears Bipolar?’ • On the worksheet provided, you will play editor / expert. In point form or in a paragraph, provide your comments on the Britney Spears article. Using the fact sheet on Bipolar Affective Disorder, specifically comment on the quality of the information provided by the article regarding the disorder. Does this article promote a negative, positive or neutral view of the disorder? What changes would you recommend to fight the stigma around bipolar?

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