Transcript Mental Illness Power Point mental_illnesses1

Mental Illnesses
Edmonds School Dist. 15 Health
Mental Illness:
Personality Disorders
• Antisocial
– Disregard for other peoples rights
• Avoidant
– Feelings of inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to
what other people think
• Borderline
– Unstable interpersonal relationships
• Dependent
– Fear of being abandoned or separated from
important individuals
• Histrionic
– Excessively emotional and attention seeking
• Narcissistic
– Need for admiration and lack of empathy
• Obsessive-Compulsive
– Preoccupied with orderliness, perfectionism,
mental and interpersonal control at the expense
of flexibility, openness and efficiency.
• Schizoid
– Detachment from social relationships and
restricted range of expression of emotions in
interpersonal relationships
• Paranoid
– Suspicion of others
• Schizotypal
– Social and interpersonal deficits marked by
eccentric behaviors and a discomfort with
close relationships
Mental Illness:
Mental Disorders
• Anorexia Nervosa
– Refusal to maintain body weight within 13% of
an individual’s minimal normal weight.
• Bulemia
– A pattern of eating and purging to maintain or
lose body weight
Mental Illness:
Anxiety Disorders
• Panic Disorder
– Panic attacks, feeling of terror that strike repeatedly
without warning
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
– Repeated, intrusive and unwanted thoughts and or
rituals that seem impossible to control
• Post-Traumatic Stress
– After experiencing a trauma such as abuse, natural
disasters, or extreme violence
• Phobias
– Irrational fear of something that poses no actual threat
• General Anxiety Disorder
– Chronic, exaggerated worry about everyday life events
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD)
• Inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
Although children and adolescents with
ADHD may not perform well in school, the
disorder does not signal a lack of
intelligence
Manic-Depressive Illness
• AKA Bipolar
• Episodes of serious mania and
depression. The mood usually swings from
overly “high” and irritable to sad and
hopeless, and back again with periods of
normal mood in between
Dissociative Disorder
• A dissociation from or interruption of a
person’s fundamental aspects of waking
consciousness, triggered as a response to
trauma or abuse
Depression
• Symptoms that interfere with the ability to
work, sleep, eat and enjoy once
pleasurable activities. It is more than a
passing case of the blues. People with
depression cannot just “pull themselves
together.”
Seasonal
Affective Disorder (SAD)
• Seasonal depression, primarily affecting
women
Schizophrenia
• Brain Disorder which affects how a person
thinks, feels, and acts. It is a disease that
makes it difficult for a person to tell the
difference between real and imagined
experiences or to think logically
Schizo-Affective Disorder
• Presence of psychotic symptoms in the
absence of mood changes for at least 2
weeks in a patient who has a mood
disorder. A label when others don’t fit
Sleep Disorders (Insomnia)
• Inability to get the amount of sleep needed
to function efficiently during the day. May
be associated with an organic disease
(arthritis, heart disorder) may be a
symptom of depression, or may be caused
by a person’s lifestyle. Sleep disorders are
associated with increased mortality, poor
career performance, overeating, and
increased hospitalization.
Tourette’s Syndrome (TS)
• Neurological syndrome. Multiple tics that
are sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic,
stereotypical, purposeless movements or
vocalizations
NOW WHAT???
• You get to watch “What About Bob?” which is a
movie filled with phobias, mental illnesses, and
coping mechanisms.
• We will give you an assignment for watching the
movie where you pick out a favorite character
and write about how the character displayed the
illness(es), coping mechanisms, and phobias
you just learned about.