Transcript Mental Disorders

Mental
Disorders
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full
also of the overcoming of it.”
-Helen Keller
Definition:
 Illness of the mind that can affect the
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person,
preventing him or her from leading a happy,
healthful, and productive life.
 Study has shown that it is a disturbances of
emotions and an imbalance in the brain.
 Often identified by their inability to cope in
healthful ways with life changes, demands,
problems, or traumas.
Types of Mental disorders
 Two types:
 1. Organic disorder- caused by a physical
illness or an injury that affects the brain.
- Examples of this are brain tumors, alcoholism,
infections and stroke.
 2. Functional disorder- occurs as the result of
psychological causes in which no brain
damage is involved.
- Include or result from: stress, emotional conflict, fear,
or poor coping skills.
1. Anxiety Disorders
 An illness in which real, imagined,
or persistent fears prevent a person
from enjoying life.
 Continuous chronic anxiety
 Arrange their lives to avoid the
object or situation that makes them
anxious or fearful.
Phobias
 Fear so strong that a person goes to extreme
measures to avoid that object or situation.
 Unable to carry out daily activities
 Some say that a phobia is related to some
past experience that was upsetting to the
person.
 All though there is no longer a threat or real
danger, the fear remains real.
Who has the phobia of Clourophobia
or the fear of clowns?
P Diddy
Some Funny and interesting
Phobias
 Bogyphobia- Fear of the bogeyman
 • Chaetophobia- Fear of hair
 • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of
long words
 Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to
the roof of the mouth.
 Triskadekaphobia- Fear of the number 13
 Nomatophobia- Fear of names
 Linonophobia- Fear of string
Celebrities with Phobias
 David Beckham- Ataxophobia, a fear of chaos
 Sarah Michelle Gellar- Scared of grave yards
and a phobia of being buried alive.
 Christina Ricci- Botanophobia, a fear of
plants, doesn’t like swimming pools either.
 Alfred Hitchcock- Ovophobia, Eggs
 Billie Bob Thorton- Panophobia, fear of
antique furniture.
 Madonna- Brontophobia, fear of thunder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
 OCD
 Trapped in a pattern of repeated behaviors or
thoughts
 Obsessions- are persistent, recurrent,
unwanted thoughts or ideas that keep people
from thinking about other things.
 Compulsions- are urgent, repeated,
irresistable behaviors.
 Ex Uncle dave/Rex
Who has Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder?
Leonardo Dicaprio
Other people who have OCD
 Dan Ackroyd (Actor)
 Jessica Alba (Actress)
 David Beckham ( soccer player)
 Beethoven (Composer)
 Charles Darwin ( Biologist/ writer)
 Cameron Diaz (Actress)
 Fred Durst( Musician)
 Donald Trump ( Business)
 Michelangelo ( artist/engineer)
Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder
 PTSD
 A person may re-live an extremely painful or
traumatic experience.
 Symptoms include- flashbacks, nightmares,
emotional numbness, dreams about the
event, feelings of guilt or extreme reaction to
a image.
 Common among veteran of military combat,
rape survivors, and survivors of natural
disasters.
Which person does NOT have PostTraumatic Stress Disorder?
Yao Ming
Somatoform
Disorders
Illness in which a person
complains of disease
symptoms, but no physical
cause can be found.
Example- Hypochondria
Hypochondria
 A preoccupying fear of having a serious illness that are not
present.
 People with hypochondria are obsessed with bodily functions
and interpret normal sensations (such as heart beats, sweating,
and bowel movements) or minor abnormalities (such as a runny
nose, a small sore, or slightly swollen lymph nodes) as
symptoms of serious medical conditions.
 People with hypochondria often have other psychiatric
disorders; two thirds of patients also have major depression,
panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or generalized
anxiety disorder.
 Don’t believe doctors who tell them that they are healthy
What movie was about the famous
billionaire who suffered from
Germs?
The Aviator
Howard Hughes
 Billionaire, aviator, film
producer and director
 Was frightened over
germs and illness to
such an extent that he
became a recluse.
 He would not shake
hands with people and
kept several doctors on
staff.
Affective Disorders
 Illness often with an organic cause that
relates to emotions and may involve mood
swings or mood extremes that interfere with
everyday living.
 Mood swing that are severe and can last for
long period of time.
 Everyone has different moods and they
always change.
Bi Polar Disorder
 Often inherited and sometimes called manic
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depression
Psychological illness characterized by extreme mood
swings between depression and extreme happiness,
or mania.
During manic periods- Person feels happy, talkative,
act impulsively or take unnecessary risks.
Often this “high” period ends fast and depression sets
in
Can act normally, some just go into one phase or the
other
Which Musician is Not Bi
Polar?
Justin Timberlake
What Girl is Bi polar?
Slylvia Plath
 Published her first poem
when she was eight.
 Sensitive, intelligent,
compelled toward perfection
in everything she attempted,
she was, on the surface, a
model daughter, popular in
school, earning straight A's,
winning the best prizes.
 while at Smith she wrote
over four hundred poems
Carrie Fisher and Virginia Woolf
Other people that are Bi
polar…
 Ben Stiller
 Jim Carey
 Tim Burton
 Vincent Van Gogh
 Sting
 Axl Rose
 Winston Churchill
 Theodore Roosevelt
 Darryl Strawberry
Personality Disorders
 Include a variety of psychological conditions
that affect a person’s ability to get along with
others.
 Be at odds with others and not see their part
of the problem
 No apparent distinct signs or symptoms.
 Act normal in society but sometimes offend or
interfere with others interactions.
 Examples- Schizophrenia, antisocial
personality, passive-aggressive personality
Schizophrenia
 A serious mental disorder meaning split mind
 Affects one to two percent of the population
and appears most frequently among people
between ages 15 and 35.
 May behave inappropriate, exhibit abnormal
emotional responses or not show any at all
 Mistrust and suspicious of others
 Hallucinate, hear voices, talk to themselves.
Act in odd manner, or neglect to care for
themselves.
 Can come and go through out life.
Which movie is about
Schizophrenia?
A Beautiful Mind
John Nash
 American mathematician
 Rejected often by his
classmates and would just
laugh it off with practical
jokes and intellectual
superiority
 Awarded the John von
Neumann Theory prize for
his invention of noncooperative equilibria.
 Published a total of 23
scientific studies
Lionel Aldridge
 Played American
football as defense end
on the Green bay
Packers of the 60’s
 Was a sports analyst
but found it hard to work
with others
 Untreated for 10 years
with paranoid
schizophrenia.
 Finally got some
treatment
Syd Barrett- Pink Floyd
 Syd Barrett (born Roger
Keith Barrett on 6 January
1946 and died 7 July 2006)
was an English singer,
songwriter, guitarist and
artist.
 He is most remembered as a
founding member of British
psychedelic rock band Pink
Floyd, providing major
musical and stylistic direction
in their early work
 Although he left the group in
1968 amidst speculations of
mental illness exacerbated
by heavy drug use.
Meera Popkin and Mary Todd
Broadway star
CATS and Miss Saigon
Went from famous to a normal
person.
Anti- Social Personality Disorder
 Person’s conflict with society
 May display behavior that is cruel, uncaring,
irresponsible, and impulsive
 Can distinguish right from wrong, the anti
social personality often does not care about
others’ needs or society’s rules
 Often get in trouble with the law
- Criminals
Which two people have Anti-Social
Personality disorder?
Bobby Fischer
Hitler
Passive Aggressive
personality disorder
 This disorder are often uncooperative with
others.
 They resent being told what to do, yet they
rely on others direction.
 Anger over issues of control, they show their
anger, but only indirectly
 Ex- a person with this disorder may not want
to take part in a school activity. So they may
not show up or come late.
Clinical Depression
 Clinical depression is a serious medical illness that negatively
affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act.
 Individuals with clinical depression are unable to function as
they used to. Often they have lost interest in activities that were
once enjoyable to them, and feel sad and hopeless for extended
periods of time.
 Clinical depression is not the same as feeling sad or depressed
for a few days and then feeling better. It can affect your body,
mood, thoughts, and behavior. It can change your eating habits,
how you feel and think, your ability to work and study, and how
you interact with people.
 People who suffer from clinical depression often report that they
"don't feel like themselves anymore."
Who does not have Clinical
Depression?
Whitney!!!