What is Mental Illness???
Diagnosis
Basics of Abnormal
Anxious Yet?
Don't PANIC!
100
Mental Illness is considered a breakdown in these four areas.
What are Cognitive, Emotional, Behavioral, & Physical
100
Obsessive thoughts lead to this rather painful follicle loss issue.
What is Trichotillomania?
100
While difficult to define, and even harder to predict/measure, this factor accounts for why some people are less receptive to environmental stressors
What is Resiliency?
100
Worry, Physical Symptoms, AND Behavioral changes.
What is Anxiety?
100
Don't PANIC! If you are only having DARE classes and not 1on1 counseling you are in this level of prevention.
What is Primary Level of Prevention?
200
The book holding all of the diagnosis used today.
What is the DSM5?
200
A key criteria in this diagnosis is that the anxiety felt is greatly out of proportion to any actual danger or for the sociocultural context.
What is Agoraphobia?
200
The environmental events we encounter that can activate underlying predispositions for mental illness.
What is Stress?
200
What do you see? Anxious Yet?
What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test?
200
Don't PANIC! You need to have multiple panic attacks and have behavioral changes due to the worry about having more in order to receive this.
What is a Panic Disorder?
300
A key factor in determining abnormality, usually difficult to judge due to it varying from person to person, but usually drives people to seek treatment.
What is Personally Distressing?
300
The voices aren't hallucinations, rather your own thoughts, and they aren't welcome here, nor are they going away anytime soon. Don't forget to count the ceiling tiles or who knows what might happen!
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
300
These "hardened" bubbles in our minds play in key part in how we view the world, but can often lead to faulty thinking and cognitive distortions.
What are Schemas?
300
Low levels of this neurotransmitter are common in most anxiety disorders, leading the others to spike out of control!
What is GABA?
300
Don't PANIC! There is a great behavioral treatment for OCD, to help you stop acting on those thoughts!
What is Response Prevention?
400
A key factor in determining abnormality, this is being different from the group, but is not always a bad thing.
What is Deviance from the Norm?
400
Easily fatigued? Restless? Feel like you are in a constant state of worry about everything and anything? Might want to ask your doctor about this diagnosis.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
400
An underlying predisposition to developing a mental illness, genetic or a risk factor.
What is Diathesis?
400
Half of those diagnosed with Panic Disorder will go on to develop this usually confining diagnosis.
What is Agoraphobia?
400
Don't PANIC! Your preoccupation with the shape of your earlobes might be taking up all of your day but I've heard there's a new surgeon coming to town you haven't talked to yet about your diagnosis/
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder?
500
A key factor in determining abnormality, usually including relationships, self-care, education, occupation, etc...
What is Functional Impairment?
500
It can happen to me, I can see it happen, hear about it all on the news, and now I'm just numb to it, but every time I hear about it I'm right back in that moment again.
What is PTSD?
500
This combo is the best treatment for most severe anxiety disorders.
What is Medication and Therapy?
500
This small but oh so important part of our brains is to blame for almost all of our anxiety.
What is the Amygdala?
500
Don't PANIC! Anxiety disorders are most commonly developing in this time window...wait...that's you isn't it?
What is your late teens into young adulthood?