The History of Mental Health
This rite was sometimes performed on individuals with mental health problems because of the belief that they were possessed by demons.
What is Exorcism?
This term refers to negative beliefs about mental illness.
What is stigma?
The most common anxiety disorder--Individuals feel anxious, but their anxiety does not have a particular focus.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This eating disorder is characterized by a cycle of binge eating and purging.
What is Bulimia?
This disorder is caused by an acute stress and is characterized by symptoms that last more than a month such as flashbacks, feelings of numbness, difficulty sleeping, and loss of memory of the event.
What is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder?
In ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, it was believed that mental illness in women was caused by the dislodging of this part of the anatomy, allowing it to "wander" away.
What is the Uterus?
The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties.
What is resilience?
An intense fear triggered by real or anticipated exposure to situations such as riding public transportation or being outside of home alone.
What is Agoraphobia?
This is a fairly common diagnosis in children (that can also persist into adulthood) in which there is difficulty with sustained focus, particularly in an academic setting.
What is Attention Deficit Disorder?
People with this condition have persistent difficulty discarding their possessions.
What is Hoarding Disorder?
Young female reporter who had herself committed to an asylum in order to investigate the conditions.
Who is Nellie Bly?
A behavior that has a measurable degree of observable impairment.
What is clinically significant?
Often found in children and characterized by an extreme fear of being apart from a caregiver.
What is separation anxiety?
Individuals with schizophrenia often experience hallucinations as well as this distorted thought process that can sometimes be paranoid in nature.
What are Delusions?
This disorder, found mostly in children, is often associated with early trauma and neglect in caregiving and is characterized by refusal to turn to adults when in distress.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?
This hospital was opened in London in 1357 and was sometimes visited by the wealthy for entertainment.
What is Bedlam Hospital?
The cognitive (thinking) component of anxiety when your mind dwells on negative thoughts.
What is Worry?
Fear of snakes...or spiders...or heights...
What is Phobia?
This personality disorder is characterized by instability in mood and interpersonal relationships, intense fear of abandonment, and self-destructive behaviors.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
People with this disorder constantly seek approval from others regarding their appearance and are preoccupied with the idea that part of their body is defective or ugly.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
The 1970s movement in which state hospitals were defunded and long-term patients were released from the hospitals.
What is deinstitutionalization?
When the sympathetic nervous system is activated in response to a stressor, this term refers to the response that has evolutionarily protected us from harm.
What is "Fight or Flight?"
Characterized by these four dimensions: need for symmetry; need for order; need for cleanliness; and saving of useless items.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
This is the current name for the diagnosis formerly know as Multiple Personality Disorder.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This anxiety disorder involves compulsively pulling out one's hair.
What is Trichotillomania?