Mental Disorders
Doesn't pay attention to details is a sign of what mental disorder?
ADD
Anorexia nervosa
What is called when someone feels sad and hopeless for months?
Clinical depression
After medical school, doctors may get advanced training in the treatment of mental disorders.
Psychiatrist
Sometimes people with mental disorders need constant attention or are in danger of harming themselves or others. Where do they need to go?
Hospital
What is a mental disorder?
Is an illness that affects the mind and reduces the person's ability to function, adjust to change or get along with others.
What type of disorder reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food?
Eating disorder.
What is it called when someone uses a sharp object to intentionally cut or scratch one's body deep enough to bleed.
Cutting
A physician who treats physical disorders of the nervous system.
Neurologist
What is it called when a group of people meet with other people who have similar disorders.
Group Therapy.
What is a phobia?
Anxiety related to a specific situation or object?
People who have this eating disorder go on uncontrolled eating binges followed by purging.
Bulimia
What should you do if your friend said they are contemplating suicide?
Take it seriously, listen to them, tell a trusted adult or call 911
This doctor is trained to recognize and treat behavior that is not normal.
Clinical psychologist
This type of therapy helps a person to identify situations, objects, or thoughts that trigger abnormal behaviors.
Cognitive and behavioral therapy.
What is the mental disorder called when an unwanted thought or image that takes control of the mind. Which then leads to an unreasonable need to behave in a certain way to prevent the feared outcome.
OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
People with this eating disorder regularly have an uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food.
Binge eating disorder
What are some risk factors for suicide?
A previous suicide attempt, having both a mental disorder or substance abuse disorder, feelings of hopeless or isolation, lack of access to mental health treatment
This mental health professional will listen to and advise people. They act as a link between people who need help and community resources to provide help
Social worker
this typer of therapy helps people better understand the reasons for their behavior.
Insight therapy
The most serious mental disorder that is identified by severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness and behavior
Schizophrenia
A person with this eating disorder will not get the necessary essential minerals, which can cause the heart to stop suddenly resulting in dealth.
Anorexia
Name 5 signs of clinical depression.
Change in appetite, weight, sleep patterns, loss of interest in usual activities, loss of energy, hopelessness
This mental health professional helps people with mental disorders and their families to accept and adjust to an illness.
Psychiatric social worker
State three reasons why someone might not seek help for a mental disorder.
Lack of knowledge, embarrassed, denial