Mental

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Mental Emotional Health

• Mental Disorders
• Lesson 1

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What are Mental Disorders???

• They are an illness of the mind that can affect
  the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a
  person.
• It can prevent someone from leading a happy,
  healthful and productive life.
• 40 of homeless
• people suffer from
• some type of MD.

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Types of MDs

• Anxiety Disorder
• A condition in which real or imagined fears are
  difficult to control.
• Characteristics
• Chronic fear,
• avoidance issues are
• the main issues for
• this disorder.

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4 Main Classifications of Anxiety Disorder

1. Phobia
2. Obsessive Compulsive
3. Panic Disorders
4. Post Traumatic Stress

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Phobia

• Is a strong irrational fear of something
  specific.
• Some common Phobias
• Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
• Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in
  crowded ones.
• Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
• Aquaphobia Fear of water.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• recurrent, unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and/or
  repetitive behaviors (compulsions).
• Signs SymptomsPeople with OCD may be plagued
  by persistent, unwelcome thoughts or images, or
  by the urgent need to engage in certain rituals.
• Ex.obsessed with germs
• or dirt, and wash their hands
• over and over.

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Panic Disorder

• is a condition characterized by
• reoccurring panic attacks in
• combination with significant behavioral change or
  at least a month of ongoing worry about the
  implications or concern about having other
  attacks.
• Symptomsrapid heartbeat, perspiration,
  dizziness, trembling, psychological experience of
  uncontrollable fear

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

• Is a condition that may develop after exposure to
  a terrifying event that threatened or caused
  physical harm.
• Symptoms
• Flashbacks, or reliving the traumatic event for
  minutes or even days at a time
• Shame or guilt
• Upsetting dreams about
• the traumatic event
• Ex. Causing PTSD-Assault,
• rape, earthquake, bombing,
• planes crashes, military combat

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Mood Disorders

• Clinical Depression
• Depressive disorders range in
• seriousness from mild, temporary
• episodes of sadness to severe, persistent
• depression.
• Signs and symptoms may include
• Loss of interest in daily activities
• Persistent sadness or feeling of emptiness
• Sleep disturbances
• Significant weight loss or gain
• Loss of concentration
• Fatigue
• Suicidal thoughts or behavior

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Bipolar Disorder

• Also known as Manic depressive disorder.
• Manic phaseFor many people, signs and symptoms
  in the manic phase may include
• Feelings of euphoria, extreme optimism and
  inflated self-esteem
• Rapid speech, racing thoughts, agitation and
  increased physical activity
• Poor judgment
• Recklessness or taking chances not normally taken
  
• Difficulty sleeping
• Tendency to be easily distracted
• Inability to concentrate
• Aggressive behavior

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Bipolar Disorder continued

• Depressive phaseIn the depressive phase, signs
  and symptoms include
• Persistent feelings of sadness, anxiety, guilt or
  hopelessness
• Disturbances in sleep and appetite
• Fatigue and loss of interest in daily activities
• Problems concentrating
• Irritability
• Chronic pain without a known cause
• Recurring thoughts of suicide

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Eating Disorders

• An eating disorder is a complex compulsion to
  eat, or not eat, in a way which disturbs physical
  and mental health.

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2 Major Types of EDs

• Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that
  describes an eating disorder characterized by low
  body weight and body image distortion with an
  obsessive fear of gaining weight.
• Individuals with anorexia often
• control body weight by voluntary
• starvation, purging, vomiting, excessive
• exercise, or other weight control
• measures, such as diet pills or diuretic drugs.

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2. Bulimia nervosa

• It is a psychological condition in which the
  subject engages in recurrent binge eating
  followed by intentional purging.
• This purging is done in order to compensate for
  the excessive intake of food, usually to prevent
  weight gain. Purging can take the form of
  vomiting inappropriate use of laxatives, enemas,
  diuretics

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Conduct Disorder

• A pattern of behavior in
• which the rights of others or
• basic social rules are violated
• Ex. Lying, theft, aggression, violence, truancy,
  arson, and
• vandalism.
• Although these people project an image of
  toughness it is usually caused by a sense of
  Low-self esteem

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Schizophrenia

• is a chronic and often debilitating mental
  illness. The condition can cause you to withdraw
  from the people and activities in the world
  around you and to retreat into a world of
  delusions or separate reality

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Symptoms

• Delusions personal beliefs not based in
  reality, such as paranoia that you're being
  persecuted or conspired against
• Bizarre delusions for example, a belief in
  Martians controlling your thoughts
• Hallucinations sensing things that don't exist,
  such as imaginary voices
• Social isolation

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Personality Disorders

• Antisocial PDis a psychiatric condition
  characterized by an individual's common disregard
  for social rules, norms, and cultural codes, as
  well as impulsive behavior, and indifference to
  the rights and feelings of others.
  Impulsiveness, Lack of remorse for hurting
  others, aggressive
• Borderline PDexperience a series of troubled
  relationships. Engage in high risk activities,
  and have low self-esteem.
• Passive-aggressive PDUncooperative, resists
  being told what to do, yet rely on other
  directions.
• For example, people who are P-A might take so
  long to get ready for a party they do not wish to
  attend, that the party is nearly over by the time
  they arrive.

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Discussion Groups

• List some reason why eating disorders affect
  females more so than males.
• Body shapes-
• 2. Myth or Fact
• The lives of people with Mental Illness lives are
  completely different than others.
• Explain/List