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Mental Health

Mental Health. Who are those with a mental illness? -your brother -your sister -the man across the street 1 in every 5 families are dealing with a mental illness. MENTALLY HEALTHY PEOPLE ARE: MENTALLY UNHEALTHY PEOPLE ARE:. MENTALLY HEALTHY PEOPLE TEND TO BE:. Friendly

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Mental Health

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  1. Mental Health

  2. Who are thosewith a mental illness? -your brother-your sister -the man across the street 1 in every 5 familiesare dealing witha mental illness.

  3. MENTALLY HEALTHY PEOPLE ARE: • MENTALLY UNHEALTHY PEOPLE ARE:

  4. MENTALLY HEALTHY PEOPLE TEND TO BE: • Friendly • Optimistic • Loving and Caring • Assertive, not Aggressive • Laugh at themselves • Try new experiences • Strive to do their best

  5. History of Treating Mental Illness • Prefrontal Lobotomy(1930-1950’s) (drilled side or top of skull) • Transorbital Lobotomy -Ice pick/ thru eye socket -Cutting nerves in brain reduced emotion/calmed behavior -Left no scars/ 10 min procedure

  6. Treatment history conti…. *ECT (ElectroConvulsive Therapy)- Seizure occurs & Neurotransmitters released Relieves depression/+mood abut.. memory loss occurs

  7. Mental Health Disorders • Illnesses that affect the mind • Prevent a person from being productive & leading a happy life • Prevent individuals from adjusting to life situations • Cause difficulty in getting along with others

  8. MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS Often characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that make people uncomfortable with themselves, or at odds with others.

  9. Mental Health Disorders Classifications • Anxiety Disorders( phobia, PTSD,OCD) • Mood Disorders (bipolar, depression) • Personality Disorders (DID, antisocial) • Psychotic Disorders (schizophrenia) • Eating Disorders (anorexia, bulimia,BED)

  10. Categories of Mental Disorders • Anxiety Disorders- Condition where real or imagined fears are difficult to control & prevent a person from enjoying life. A) PHOBIA’S- intense (unrealistic) FEAR….causes people to avoid what they are afraid of- poses little/no danger -Person realizes fear is unreasonable but can’t control feelings

  11. B) PTSD-Post Traumatic Stress Disorder • Anxiety relating to a traumatic or terrifying past experience • An example of this? May experience: • *Flashbacks, nightmares, or constant fear, worry, stress, hurting self or others, loneliness • John McCain suffered from this

  12. C) Panic Disorders-episodes of intense fear that occur for no apparent reason • Symptoms- pounding heart, chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, numbness or tingling feeling • Person feels like they are having a heart attack/dying

  13. 1 in 200 children diagnosed with OCD OBSESSIONS- Recurrent, persistent thoughts/worries Compulsions- Repetitive behavior What are some examples of these behaviors? d) OCD-Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

  14. OCD…conti…. COMPULSIONS= hand washing (20-30 x’ s a day) counting, checking something over & over, avoiding stepping on cracks on sidewalk OCD may develop or worsen after strep infection Treatment: Behavior therapy, medicine, family support, electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)

  15. Famous people w/ Illness: Donald Trump, Cameron Diaz, Leonard DiCaprio Movies:”What about Bob?”, “Analyze This”

  16. 2. Mood Disorders • A) Depression • B) Suicide • C) Bi-polar

  17. 2c) Bipolar or Manic Depression- (mood disorder)Drastic changes in mood from 1 emotional extreme to the other***alternating highs= MANIA ***alternating lows= DEPRESSIONOften highs end abruptly & periods of depression set in.**Feelings experienced are like a Rollercoaster

  18. Bi-POLAR …. • **Manic episodes can lead to: family conflict, financial problems, aggressive, impulsive, engage in high risk behaviors, take greater risks & be overly talkative • **Depression: change in Eating/sleeping/concentration & decision making, withdrawal, suicidal, - self esteem

  19. BI-POLAR cont……*Affects 2 million people in the US*Affects both men & women-mostly ages 15-25*More common ……if parent or sibling has itTreatment:Antidepressants ,lithium & therapy

  20. Famous people w/ illness: Jim & Drew Carey, Robert Downey Jr., Mel Gibson, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Gogh, Beethoven Movies: “Out of my Mind”, “Before They Fall off the Cliff”,

  21. 3. Psychotic Disorder a) SCHIZOPHRENIA-Most common and severe mental illness. The disease makes it difficult to tell what is real from what is not real *affects 1 in 100 people worldwide *Symptoms begins in adolescence ages(16-30)

  22. ***Symptoms: 1. Hallucinations: sense things that don’t exist (hearing voices) or seeing things that aren’t there 2. Delusions- feeling Paranoid 3. Little / no emotion/feeling 4. lack of expression 5. Social withdrawal 6. Difficulty concentrating 7.Disorganized speech/ behaviors 8. Inappropriate laughter/crying 9. Staring into space for long period of time

  23. People w/ illness: John Nash (Mathematician), Lionel Aldridge (football player), Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac),Syd Barret( Pink Floyd guitarist) • Movies: “The Asylum, “A beautiful Mind”, • Books: The Outsider, Beyond Crazy

  24. 4. Personality Disorders A) Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Known as: multiple personalities • Disconnect from former identity • (take on (1-100) different personalities) • CAUSES- generally develop as a defense mechanism for dealing with trauma ex: (childhood sexual/emotional abuse)

  25. Dissociative identity disorder conti……. SYMPTOMS: • Memory loss of specific time frames and people/amnesia • Refer to themselves as (WE) or (HE/SHE,THEY) • Blurred sense of identity • Depression, phobia’s, schizophrenia, eating disorders, etc. • Flashbacks of abuse an example: SIBIL Herschel Walker-wrote a book…RunningFree B) Amnesia

  26. C) Antisocial Disorder • Referred to as a…. sociopath • No morals, no conscious, no remorse, failure to conform, can’t establish right from wrong, disregard for safety of self & others • Cause unknown…. - hereditary, environmental, dysfunctional family life -abnormalities in development of nervous system -mothers that smoke during pregnancy (decreased O2 levels)

  27. Examples: Serial killers • ex: Charles Manson *****Boy w/ babysitter…give example

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