Types of Mental Illnesses and Disorders
A medical condition that is characterized by a mental or emotional problem so severe that it interferes with daily functioning.
What is a mental illness/disorder?
A hereditary chance of having various diseases and illnesses.
What is genetic predisposition?
One major risk factor for a suicide attempt.
What is a previous suicide attempt?
A negative and often unfair belief about mental illnesses and disorders?
What is a stigma?
A professional who is trained to diagnose and treat people with mental illnesses and disorders. They are not physicians.
What is a therapist?
Episodes of intense fear that are often accompanied by serious physical symptoms and are associated with intense feelings of anxiety.
What is a panic attack?
Events and stressors that occur in a person's life and may contribute to the development of a mental disorder. Examples would be death of a loved one, divorce, substance abuse, etc.
What are environmental factors?
Individuals who lose a loved one to suicide; often feel angry, sad, and guilty.
Who are survivors?
A method of treatment in which members of a family meet together with a therapist.
What is family therapy?
Many personal, social, and environmental factors may contribute to this behavior. Previous attempts increase the odds of it happening again.
What is suicide?
People with this disorder have persistent and obsessive thoughts or feelings that they manage by engaging in ritualized behavior such as repeatedly washing hands, organizing things in a certain order, etc.
What is OCD? (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)
Unhealthy thinking patterns that people have about the world around them. For example, feeling like you're not enough, feeling as if no one likes you, etc.
What are cognitive distortions?
A series of suicides in a community over a relatively short period of time.
What is a suicide cluster?
These are sometimes prescribed by doctors - usually psychiatrists - that can help by changing a person's biology.
What are medications?
This disorder is characterized by symptoms such as irregular thoughts, delusions, paranoia, delusions, false beliefs and/or hallucinations.
What is schizophrenia?
A type of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that results from a blow to the head or the body. Results in disorientation, confusi9on, nausea, and weakness and can cause life-long problems. Big issue in contact sports.
What is a concussion?
One of the leading causes of death due to mental health among teenagers and young adults in the US.
What is suicide?
A group of people who share a common problem and meet, usually with the presence of a therapist, to talk about a problem.
What is a support group?
These are complex mental disorders that are usually diagnosed in childhood. People with this typically have problems with normal interpersonal interactions and exhibit sympt9oms such as inability to make eye contact, strong need for routine, etc.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
Occurs when a severe blow or jolt to the head damages the brain.
What is a traumatic brain injury? TBI
Changes in eating and sleeping habits, withdrawal from family, friends, and activities, lack of motivation, lack of hygiene.
What are some of the warning signs of suicide?
A type of medication used to make certain chemicals in the brain, such as seratonin, more available, which can reduce symptoms.
What are antidepressants?