Therapies/Medications
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the therapy that helps change patients thinking and behavioral patterns is used to help these psychological disorders.
Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Phobias.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
The persistent feeling of dread or anxiety which interferes with a person's daily life, that can last up to days or even years
Sudden waves of fear, discomfort, sense of losing control/doom/death, pounding or racing heart, difficulty breathing, chest pain, nausea, avoidance of places where attacks occurred in past.
Panic Disorder
These buildings were used to keep patients with psychological disorders in them and its workers were often abusive and cruel to patients, with most shutting down in the 1900s
Lunatic/Insane asylums
This type of medication enhances the activity of the neurotransmitter GABA that helps someone become calmer. A common side effect of this medication is drowsiness.
Anti Anxiety Pills
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
This long lasting disorder is when a person experiences uncontrollable and recurring thoughts (obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors, which can cause distress or interfere with daily life.
Experiencing Flashbacks of the traumatic event, recurring memories/dreams related to the event, distressing thoughts, signs of stress, avoidance of spaces/events/objects that remind a person of the traumatic event, easily startled.
PTSD
These early theories were used as ways of explaining and “curing” psychological disorders
Evil spirits, supernatural beings possessing/controlling a person
This medication increases the release of serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine in the brain, and is often used to help treat depression and anxiety disorders.
Antidepressants
Dissociative Identity Disorder
“switching” to other identities/personality, each having their own name, history, sometimes memories and features.
Worry that the person is currently or will become severely ill, extreme anxiety that normal body sensations are caused by an illness.
Hypochondriasis (Aka Illness Anxiety disorder)
The Reference book on mental health and brain related disorders
The DSM-5
This medication reduces the amount of dopamine the brain receives, which helps reduce the amount of hallucinations and delusions a person experiences, but doesn’t always make them go away.
Antipsychotic Medication
Bipolar Disorder
This mood disorder, formerly known as Manic Depressive illness, which causes shifts in a person's mood, energy, activity levels and concentration on varying levels. Which can be split into different types of episodes, Manic, Depressive and Hypomanic.
Feeling sad/depressed in about a 4-5 month timespan, changes in sleep, loss of interest in things, decreased energy, anxious, physical aches/pains, change in appetite in certain months/seasons
Seasonal Affective Disorder
The full name of the DSM-5
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
This medication, commonly used to help patients with bipolar disorder, helps reduce mood swings by stabilizing/calming different parts of the brain that have become overstimulated or overactive. This can take several weeks to reach its full effects.
Mood Stabilizers
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Person shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the feelings of others. Can manipulate and guilt people, commonly showing no remorse.
Delusions, hallucinations, lack of motivation, disorganized thoughts/speech, reduced want in social contact
Schizophrenia
About how many Americans have experienced mental health disorders? (Nearest amount wins)
57.8 million Americans.