Mental Disorders

1. Mental Disorders Ch.4 Section 1

2. Warm-Up Activity Which of the following statements are always true? Sometimes true? Always false? • It is easy to identify a person with a mental disorder. • Mental disorders are causes by emotional problems. • Mental disorders affect a person’s ability to function. • People who have a mental disorder are dangerous.

3. Objectives and Vocabulary • Explain how mental disorders are recognized. • Identify four causes of mental disorders. • Describe five types of anxiety disorders and four other types of mental disorders. • Vocabulary: • Mental disorder -compulsion • Anxiety -mood disorder • Anxiety disorder -depression • Phobia -schizophrenia • Obsession -personality disorder

4. What are Mental Disorders? • An illness that affects the mind and reduces a person’s ability to function, to adjust to change, or to get along with others. • For example:___________

5. Recognizing Mental Disorders • Mental health experts ______ • ADHD-symptoms/discuss • How would having ADHD affect someone’s ability to study?

6. Causes of Mental Disorders • Sometimes has a single cause. • More often a combination of factors are involved. • _____ • _____ • _____ • _____

7. Physical Factors • Damage to the brain. • Could be caused by a growth, or tumor, an injury or infection that destroys brain cells. • Exposure to poison. • _____________________

8. Heredity • May inherit a tendency toward a mental disorder. • Doesn’t mean the person will have the disorder. • _______________________

9. Early Experiences • Extremely negative experiences that occur early in life can lead to mental illness. • Who can give me an example? • ______________________

10. Recent Experiences • Some mental health experts think that recent experiences are more likely than early experience to trigger a mental disorder. • Who can give me an example? • __________________________

11. Anxiety Disorders • Anxiety: ________________ • Everyone experiences anxiety now and then. • When do you experience anxiety? • Feelings are normal and usually short lived. • When the anxiety persists for a long time and interferes with daily living, this is a sign of an anxiety disorder.

12. Examples of anxiety disorders • Generalized anxiety disorder • ___________ • Panic attacks • _______________________ • Post traumatic stress disorder

13. Warning! Now we will begin talking further in depth with each mental disorder…. Please do not self-diagnose yourself! Or run home and tell your parents you have a funky disorder.

14. Generalized Anxiety Disorder • __________________________ • Thoughts and emotions do not have a single source. • Many of the warning signs of stress can also be signs of this disorder, including restlessness, fatigue, trouble falling asleep, and trouble concentrating.

15. Phobias • Anxiety that is related to a specific situation or object is called a phobia. • Do you have a phobia that you are aware of? • If so, how do you deal with your phobia?

16. Panic Attacks • During an attack, a person will experience some of the following symptoms. • Fast heart rate/breathing • _______________ • Sweating • _________ • Nausea/dizzy • Fear of losing control

17. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder • An unwanted thought or image that takes control of the mind is an obsession. • ________________________ • A compulsion is an unreasonable need to behave in a certain way to prevent a feared outcome. • Who can give an example of OCD?

18. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder • __________________________ • May have flashbacks or nightmares that produce intense fear or horror. • Situations that remind them of the event can produce intense anxiety, they begin to avoid those situations. • May feel guilty because they survived and others did not. • What would be an example of an event that could cause PTSD.

19. Other Mental Disorder • Some teens and young adults have mood disorders or schizophrenia. Others have impulse-control disorders or personality disorders.

20. Mood Disorders • People who have a mood disorder experience extreme emotions that make it difficult to function well in their daily lives. • An example is bipolar disorder • Shift from happy to sad, based on what is happening in their lives. • Also called manic-depressive. • Depression: __________________

21. Schizophrenia • One of the most serious mental disorders • _____________________________ • ________________ • Minds are “split off” or separated from reality. • At times, may talk to themselves, display inappropriate emotional responses, dress/act strangely. Develop fears that are not supported by reality. • May believe someone/something controls their thoughts or wants to harm them.

22. Impulse Control Disorders • ____________________________ • Kleptomania: cannot resist the impulse to take items that they don’t need or want. • About 75 million people in the US cannot control the urge to gamble. • Most among males. • May add uncontrolled shopping to the list-85% are female. • Do you know someone with an impulse-control disorder? How does this affect his or her life?

23. Personality Disorder • Personality determines how you tend to relate to other people. • Person with a personality disorder _____________________________ • Three broad groups • Group A • Group B • Group C

24. Personality Disorder Groups

25. Section 1 Review • What is a mental disorder? How are mental disorders recognized? • List four possible causes of mental disorders. • What is an anxiety disorder? What is the key difference between a phobia and generalized anxiety disorder? • What is a compulsion? How does a compulsion differ from an obsession? • What are some symptoms of a mood disorder? • Explain how someone who has frequent unexpected panic attacks might develop a phobia.