Anxiety and Panic Attacks
The emotion we feel when we are worried, tense, or afraid of something that is about to happen, or could happen, in the future.
Anxiety
These types of disorders are characterized by sadness severe or persistent enough to interfere with function in daily life.
Depressive Disorders
Thinking and feeling as though you are being threatened in some way.
Paranoia
A mental health problem that one may develop after experiencing traumatic events.
PTSD
These types of disorders are characterized by significant difficulties in how one related to oneself and other people.
Personality Disorders
A response in our bodies that releases adrenaline and cortisol in order to help us act faster in times of threat. Three or four 'F' words.
Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response.
This depressive disorder has symptoms that continue for two years or more without going away.
What is the difference between a suspicious thought and a paranoid thought?
Paranoid thoughts are ones that no one else shares, with no definitive evidence for it or evidence against it, it's unlikely you'd be singled out in this situation, one still has the suspicious thoughts despite reassurances from others, and those suspicions are based on feelings and ambiguous events.
What does the acronym PTSD stand for?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
This personality disorder is characterized by believing there are special reasons that make one different, better, or more deserving than other people.
Narcissistic personality disorder
An exaggeration of your body's normal response to danger, stress, or excitement.
Panic attack
What is the difference between a depressive disorder and experiencing normal depression?
Functionality loss in daily life.
When does paranoia become a mental health problem?
When it becomes severe or persistent enough that it significantly negatively impacts your daily life.
To be diagnosed with with delayed-onset PTSD, how many months must one's symptoms emerge after the traumatic experience?
6 months
5-7 acceptable
This personality disorder is characterized by feeling needy, weak, and/or unable to make decisions or function day-to-day without help or support from other people.
Dependent personality disorder
What are two ways in which one could help manage their panic attacks?
Focus on breathing, stamp on the spot, focus on your senses, grounding techniques, etc.
Name two risk factors for developing a depressive disorder.
Genetics, changes in neurotransmitter levels, major life stresses, if one already experienced a major depressive episode, being female, general medical disorders, and certain medications.
This is a set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something.
Stigma
What are two common symptoms of PTSD?
Vivid flashbacks, intrusive thoughts or images, nightmares, intense distress at real or symbolic reminders of the trauma, physical sensations such as pain, sweating, nausea and trembling.
This personality disorder is characterized by the need to keep everything in order and under control.
Obsessive compulsive personality disorder
What are two potential risk factors for developing anxiety issues?
Genetic factors, past/childhood experiences, current life situations, physical/mental health problems, drugs and medication, etc.
What are three methods of treating depressive disorders?
Social support, medical support from a GP, psychotherapy, medications, pharmacotherapy, electro-convulsive therapy, light therapy, medicinal herbs, vagus nerve stimulation, deep brain stimulation, support groups.
What are two risk factors for experiencing paranoid thoughts?
Life experiences, experiences in childhood, external environment, mental health, physical illness, lack of sleep, recreational drugs, genetics.
What is secondary trauma?
Experiencing PTSD symptoms while supporting someone close to you who's experiencing trauma.
This personality disorder is characterized by feeling worried about people abandoning you, and either doing anything to stop that from happening or push them away, among other similar behaviors.
Borderline personality disorder