Transcript Mental and Emotional

Mental and
Emotional Health
Unit 2
Lessons 5, 8, 9, 10, 11
Communication Skills
I-message: expresses your feelings or
thoughts on a subject.
You-message is a statement that blames
or shames another person.
Listening Skills
Active listening is the way you respond
in conversation to show that you hear
and understand what the speaker is
saying.
Active listening includes
clarifying, restating,
summarizing, or
affirming what was
said.
Good Character
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Values = your standard or belief
Self-control = regulates own behavior
Compassion
Good citizenship
Fairness
Respect
Responsibility
Trustworthiness
Honesty
Self-Respect
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Pay attention to your appearance
Responsible actions
Time for yourself
Support others/Care about them
Family time vs. Friend time
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from
which self-respect springs. ~Joan Didion
Self-Esteem
• A person’s belief about his or her worth.
• Positive self-esteem is a person’s belief
that he or she is worthy and deserves
respect.
• A person’s belief that he or she is not
worthy and does not deserve respect is
negative self-esteem
Environment
• Positive social-emotional
exists when you receive plenty of socialemotional boosters.
• Negative social-emotional
environment exists when you
experience too many
social-emotional pollutants.
What Determines Your
Personality?
• Heredity
• Environment
• Attitudes
• Behaviors
Personality Test!!!!!!!!!!
How You Focus Your Energy
• Extroverted: You are
energized by people and
things.
• Introverted: You are
energized by ideas and
images.
How You Gather Information
• Sensing: You trust tangible
information that you gather from
your senses.
• Intuitive: You give more weight to
information from your insight and
imagination.
How You Make Decisions
• Thinking: You base your
decisions on objective principles
and facts.
• Feeling: You trust your “gut” and
weigh decisions against people
issues and concerns.
How You Get Work Done
• Judging: Your approach to doing
things is structured and
organized.
• Perceiving: Your approach to
doing things is flexible . You
adapt as you do things and prefer
open-ended deadlines.
Making Decisions
• Describe the situation that
requires a decision.
• List all possible decisions.
• Evaluate outcomes of those
decisions
• Decide and Act
• Review your decisions
Addictions - Compelling desire to engage in
a situation
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Drugs
Exercise
Gambling
Nicotine
Perfectionism
Relationship
Shopping
TV / computer
Work
Thrills
Mental Disorders
• Anxiety= Real or imagined fears prevent a
person from enjoying life.
• Obsessive Compulsive= persistent,
unwelcome thoughts or images and engages in
certain rituals.
• Panic= feelings of terror strike suddenly and
repeatedly.
• Phobia= excessive fear of certain things
• Depression=long lasting hopelessness
• Seasonal Affective Disorder=type of
depression, reduced sunlight
Mental Disorders
• Post-Traumatic Stress= after effects of a
terrifying event.
• Dementia= brain deteriorates in function.
• Eating= starve or binge
• Clinical Depression= feelings of hopelessness,
sadness
• Bipolar= extreme happiness to extreme
sadness
• Schizophrenia= breakdown in the logical
thought process
• Hypochondria=misinterpret aches and pains
Mental Health Treatment
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Formal Intervention
Evaluation
Psychiatrist =med
Psychologist=no med
Medication
Treatment Centers
Therapy
Support Groups
• Anger is the feeling of being
irritated or annoyed.
• An anger trigger is a thought or
event that causes a person to
become angry.
• An anger cue is a body change that
occurs when a person is angry.
• Hidden anger: Not
recognized, expressed
inappropriate ways
• Hostility: Chronic state of anger
• Projection: Blaming others for actions or events
• Displacement: Release of anger on someone or
something that isn’t cause of anger.
Serotonin
• Chemical that is involved in
controlling states of
consciousness and mood.
• Lowered brain serotonin levels
increases aggressiveness
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Self Statement
Use I messages
Write a Letter
Write in Journal
Physical Activity
Breathe Deeply
Talk to Someone
Rehearse Bad Situation
• Stress: Response of
the body to the
demands of daily
living. (physical &
mental)
• Stressor: Cause or
source of stress
• Eustress: Good
stress
• Distress: Bad stress
Emotional Signs of Stress
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Aggressive Behavior
Irritability
Nervous Laughter
Trouble Sleeping
Eating
Physical Signs of Stress
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Pounding Heart
Trembling
Grinding Teeth
Dry Mouth
Perspiration
Aches in Back/neck
General Adaptation Syndrome
• Alarm Stage: Body ready for quick
action, adrenaline is secreted into
bloodstream.
• Resistance Stage: Body attempts to
regain internal balance
• Exhaustion Stage: Wear and tear on
the body increase, risk injury, illness
Two Types of Stressors
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• Internal
External Stressors
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Physical Environment
Social Interaction
Organisational
Major Life Events
Daily Hassles
Physical Environment
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Noise
Bright Lights
Heat
Confined Spaces
Social Interaction
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Rudeness
Bossiness
Aggressiveness by Others
Bullying
Organisational
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Rules
Regulations
“Red - Tape”
Deadlines
Major Life Events
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Birth
Death
Lost job
Promotion
Marital Status Change
Daily Hassles
• Commuting to School
• Misplaced Homework
• Mechanical breakdowns
Internal Stressors
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Lifestyle Choices
Negative Self - Talk
Mind Traps
Personality Traits
Lifestyle Choices
• Caffeine
• Lack of Sleep
• Overloaded Schedule
• Sports
• Partying
Negative Self Talk
• Pessimistic Thinking
• Self Criticism
• Over Analysing
Mind Traps
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Unrealistic Expectations
Taking Things Personally
All or Nothing Thinking
Exaggeration
Rigid Thinking
• It is a normal reaction to feel
angry or depressed while
trying to adjust to a life
crisis.
Types……
• Minor depression is a mood disorder
accompanied by feelings of hopelessness,
sadness, or helplessness.
• Dysthymic disorder is a long-lasting form
of depression.
• Major depression is a mood disorder
accompanied by long-lasting feelings of
hopelessness, sadness, or helplessness.
Symptoms Used to Diagnose
Depression
The American Psychiatric Association uses
these symptoms to diagnose depression:
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deep sadness
apathy
fatigue
agitation
sleep disturbances
weight or appetite
changes
• lack of concentration
• feelings of
worthlessness
• morbid thoughts
What Causes Depression
• Inability to cope with a life crisis
• Changes in brain structure
• Genetic predisposition: the inheritance
of genes that increase the likelihood of
developing a condition.
• Low serotonin levels
• Traumatic family events
• Physical illness and disorders
• Alcohol and other drug use
Coping With Depression
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Talk to Someone
Treatment
Avoid Drugs/Alcohol
Stay Social
Practice Self-management Skills
Resiliency is the ability to adjust,
recover, bounce back, and learn from
difficult times.
Suicide
• Suicide is the intentional taking of one’s
own life.
• Para-suicide: is a suicide attempt in
which a person does not intend to die.
– Parasuicide is a cry for help.
– Some teens who make a suicide
attempt and do not intend to die are
not found in time, and their attempts
end in death.
– Without help, teens who have
attempted suicide once might attempt
suicide again.
• Cluster suicides are a series of
suicides occurring within a short period of
time and involving people who are
connected in some way.
– If you know someone who has
committed suicide, talk to your
parents, a guardian, a school
counselor, or another trusted adult.
– Do not copy this person’s mistake.
Suicidal Tendencies
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Abuse of alcohol/drugs
Death of loved one
Feelings of alienation/rejection
Coping with body changes and
sexuality
• Depression
• Impulsive/Aggressive behavior
• Mental disorder
Signs of Suicide
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statements
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statements
• Changed
personality
• Withdrawing
• Appearance
• Giving away
possessions
• Change in
schoolwork
• Use alcohol/drugs
• Preoccupied with
death
Suicide Prevention Strategies
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Look for warning signs
Listen without giving advice
Take suicide threat seriously
Ask if have a plan/ follow through
Do not swear to secrecy
Get an adult involved
Stay with them until help arrives
80% of all modern diseases have
their origins in stress.