Mental Health 101

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Mental Health 101

• What are signs to look for
• NOTE This presentation is to provide
  information and bring awareness about Mental
  Health
• ONLY a qualified professional can make a mental
  health assessment

This presentation is brought to you by Martine
Fournier, Manager, Labour Services with the
United Way Durham Region
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Bipolar Disorder

• Behavioural Changes continued
• Being restless
• Sleeping little
• Having an unrealistic belief in ones abilities
• Behaving impulsively and taking part in a lot of
  pleasurable, high risk behaviours, such as
  spending sprees, impulsive sex, and impulsive
  business investments.

• Symptoms of mania or manic episodes include
• Mood Changes
• A long period of feeling high, or an overly
  happy or outgoing mood
• Extremely irritable mood, agitation, feeling
  jumpy or wired.
• Behavioural Changes
• Talking very fast, jumping from one idea to
  another, having racing thoughts
• Being easily distracted
• Increasing goal-directed activities, such as
  taking on new projects

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Bipolar contd

• Symptoms of depression or a depressive episode
  include
• Mood Changes
• A long period of feeling worried or empty
• Loss of interest in activities once enjoyed,
  including sex.

• Behavioural Changes
• Feeling tired or slowed down
• Having problems concentrating, remembering, and
  making decisions
• Being restless or irritable
• Changing eating, sleeping, or other habits
• Thinking of death or suicide, or attempting
  suicide.

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Depression

• The experience of depression varies widely from
  person to person. Yet there are common threads
  that weave their way through this morose
  tapestry.
• Symptoms
• Hopeless Worthless
• Useless Might as well be dead
• Apathetic emotionless
• Unresponsive extremely fatigued
• Desire only to sleep
• Low energy level
• Sad no motivation
• Anxious Slow
• Short-tempered
• Down irritable
• Black attitude lonely, alone, abandoned

• Miserable, terrible, horrible, lousy
• Void, empty, hollow
• Guilty of everything
• Scared
• Low self-esteem
• Inability to concentrate
• Ugly
• Inability to function
• Inability to experience pleasure
• Angry
• Want to be alone
• Tense, quiet
• Heavily burdened
• Cry easily, helpless, fat, paranoid etc

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Anxiety Disorders

• What are the major kinds of anxiety disorders
• Panic disorders
• Phobias of intense fear
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Post traumatic Stress Disorder

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Obsessive Compulsion Disorder

• Compulsions
• Thoughts, images, or impulses that occur over and
  over
• again and feel out of the persons control.
• Repetitive behaviours or thought that a person
  
  engages in to neutralize,
  counteract, or make their obsessions go away.
• Can also include avoiding situations that trigger
  their obsessions
• Time consuming and get in the way of important
  activities the person values (socializing,
  working, going to school, etc.).
• Fear of losing things
• What Compulsions are not
• Not all repetitive behaviours or rituals are
  compulsion. Bedtime routines, religious
  practices, and learning a new skill involve
  repeating an activity over and over again, but
  are a welcome part of daily life

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Schizophrenia

• Schizophrenia symptoms fall into 2 categories
  Positive Negative symptoms.
• The positive or psychotic symptoms most
  associated
• with schizophrenia include
• Delusions
• Hallucinations and
• Grossly disorganized thought, mood and behaviour.
• Disturbances of feeling or affect (mood)
• Ambivalence
• Sensitivity
• The negative symptoms
• Deficits in attention, memory, fluency of thought
  and language, emotional expression, judgment,
  decision-making and motivation
• Can be persistent. These negative symptoms can
  lead to patterns of social withdrawal and
  alienation that may disrupt the persons ability
  to work and function normally.
• Change in habits and ability to function
• People with schizophrenia will likely have one or
  more of the symptoms mentioned. However, some of
  these symptoms are not unique to schizophrenia.
  It is always necessary to see a doctor for
  diagnosis.

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Panic Disorder

• Symptoms
• Chest pain, pressure or discomfort.
• Heart palpitations or rapid heart beat.
• Difficulty breathing or catching your breath.
• A choking sensation or lump in the throat.
• Excessive sweating light-headedness or
  dizziness.
• Tingling or numbness in parts of the body.
• Chills or hot flashes shaking or trembling or
  feelings of unreality or of being detached from
  the body.

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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

• Symptoms
• feel empty, lonely, dont exist
• Play roles (Who IM supposed to be
• Sense or worthlessness
• Self-destructive
• Feel emotional vulnerable
• Intense grief, terror, panic, abandonment,
  betrayal, agony, fury or humiliation.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affects 1
of 2 people at least once in their lifetime. The
truth bout PTSD PTSD is a medical illness It is
not your fault that you feel this way It is not
something that you can control on your own. PTSD
can be treated PTSD is a reaction to an event
that caused, fear, helplessness or horror such
as A natural disaster (flood, tornado,
hurricane). An accident (car, plane, train,
boat). A physical attack (assault,
rape). Military combat
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Socio/Psychopath

• Sociopath / Psychopaths are both personality
  disorders, grouped under Antisocial Personality
  Disorder
• Symptoms
• Manipulative Failure to conform to Social norms
• Impulsive Ego-Centric
• Lack emotions Lack of responsibility
• Absence of personal goals Pathological lying
• Juvenile delinquency infidelity
• Relentless deception Can be charming

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• Symptoms
• Sense of self importance Excessive self
  admiration
• Believe themselves more special than others
• Can take advantage of others to benefit self
• Becoming arrogant
• Emotional Show no respect for others feelings
• Displays a strong personality on the exterior
• Sets unrealistic goals Self obsession and undue
  confidence
• Self centered Exaggerates their achievements
  and abilities/talents

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Mental Health Statistics

• Support mental health care delivery, education
  and research
• 1 in 4 will experience a mental illness severe
  enough to affect their daily activities
• Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death in
  Canada for people between ages 10 and 34.
• Mental illnesses often develop during adolescence
  and young adulthood.
• Depression and anxiety represent up to 90 of
  mental illnesses and cause up to 35 million lost
  workdays a year in Canada.
• The highest proportion of people seeking mental
  health help are over age 65.
• 4 in 5 people will be affected by the mental
  illness of someone close to them.