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MENTAL DISORDERS What are they? Please complete the Mental Disorders vocabulary worksheet that I handed out to you the other day. Thanks!! Mental Disorders • Illness that affects a persons thoughts, emotions and behaviors • Types • Too much or too little sleep • Feeling of extreme sadness • Unexplained mood changes • Inability to concentrate • False perceptions of reality Disorders - Depression • feelings of severe despondency and dejection. • 15 million adults • 42 million youth 10-19, of them 20% suffer from depression. 8 • 8.4 million Disorders – Anxiety • a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. • 40 million adults • 8.4 million teens Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Or PTSD • PTSD is a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event. • Can sometimes take up to three months to present. • 5.5 million youths report abuse each year. Fact • America identified 49,933 homeless veterans, which represents 8.6 percent of the total homeless population. Disorders- ADD/ADHD There are 3 types of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). • Inattentive • This person is easily distracted and is what people are referring to when they use the term ADD • Hyper impulsive • Hyperactivity and impulsivity • Combined • This person has a combination of both inattentiveness and hyperactivity. ADHD • The CDC claims that about 11% of American children, ages 4 – 17, have ADHD. Which is about 6.4 million. • Most common mental disorder for children. Disorders -Eating • Binge Eating- Eating large amounts of food and feeling as though you can’t stop. • Anorexia Nervosa- Obsession over weight and food, tend to have a very low body weight. • Bulimia Nervosa- Binge eating followed by ways to avoid weight gain. Purging Laxatives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqbL-UhhyPk Disorders - Bipolar • A psychiatric illness characterized by both manic and depressive episodes, or manic ones only. • A manic episode is not a disorder in and of itself, but rather is diagnosed as a part of a condition called bipolar disorder. A manic episode is a mood state characterized by period of at least one week where an elevated, expansive or unusually irritable mood exists. • A depressive disorder is not a passing blue mood but rather persistent feelings of sadness and worthlessness and a lack of desire to engage in formerly pleasurable activities. A complex mind/body illness, depression can be treated with drugs and/or therapy Disorders- Schizophrenia Schizophrenia may result in • hallucinations • delusions • disordered thinking/speech Schizophrenia isn't a split personality or multiple personality. Schizophrenia does mean “split-mind” but it refers to the disruptions of emotions and thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvF4-C1EuJU Schizophrenia Facts • Men tend to get develop schizophrenia slightly earlier than women; whereas most males become ill between 16 and25 years old, most females develop symptoms several years later, and the incidence in women is noticeably higher in women after age 30. The average age of onset is 18 in men and 25 in women. • Schizophrenia is not rare; the lifetime risk of developing schizophrenia is widely accepted to be around 1 in 100 Homelessness and Schizophrenia • Approximately 200,000 individuals with schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness are homeless, constituting one-third of the approximately 600,000 homeless population (total homeless population statistic based on data from Department of Health and Human Services). Dissociative Identity Disorder Or Split Personality • Dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. • Dissociative identity disorder is thought to stem from a combination of factors that may include trauma experienced by the person with the disorder. • The dissociative aspect is thought to be a coping mechanism - the person literally dissociates himself from a situation or experience that's too violent, traumatic, or painful to assimilate with his conscious self. Dissociative Identity Disorder • Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct or split identities or personality states that continually have power over the person's behavior. • The "alters" or different identities have their own age, sex, or race. Each has his or her own postures, gestures, and distinct way of talking. Sometimes the alters are imaginary people; sometimes they are animals. • As each personality reveals itself and controls the individuals' behavior and thoughts, it's called "switching." Switching can take seconds to minutes to days. Disorders- OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - Having unreasonable thoughts or fears that cause a person to have repetitive behaviors. OCD often strikes in childhood, although it's relatively rare before the ages of four or five. Although people can develop OCD symptoms at any time in their lives, typically symptoms appear by young adulthood, if not before. OCD symptoms can begin at any age, even in later adulthood. • As Good as it Gets Disorders- Insomnia • Habitual sleeplessness. • The inability to sleep Disorders-Hypochondria • A person who is abnormally anxious about their health. • Munchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPS) is a relatively rare form of child abuse that involves the fabrication of illnesses or symptoms by a primary caretaker. Medical child abuse. Is considered a mental illness and requires treatment. Phobia A disabling fear causing anxiety, and panic. • Recognize that the fear is unreasonable. • The person may avoid situations where their phobia may be present. • My phobia - Kinemortophobis are terrified of zombies, or are afraid of turning into zombies. • What do you think are the top ten fears?? Phobias – Top 10 10 – Trypophobia – The fear of holes 9 – Aerophobia – The fear of flying 8 –Mysophobia – The fear of germs 7 – Claustrophobia – The fear of small spaces 6 – Astraphobia – The fear of thunder and lightning 5 – Cynophobia – The fear of dogs 4 – Agoraphobia – The fear of open or crowded spaces 3 – Acrophobia – The fear of heights 2 – Ophidiophobia – The fear of snakes 1 – Arachnophobia – The fear of spiders