Mental Health Conditions
What condition in which someone responds with extreme or unrealistic fear and dread to certain situations, experiences, or objects?
Anxiety Disorder
What mental illness involves extreme stress or fear, flashbacks, angry outbursts, and nightmares?
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
What are 2 barriers for individuals seeking help?
Social Stigma and Cost of Treatment
What medication make certain chemicals in the brain more available to reduce the symptoms of the mental health disorder?
Antidepressants
True or false. If a person attempted suicide before, he or she is less likely to make another attempt.
False
What condition is in which a person has difficulty paying attention and controlling behavior?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
What mental illness involve inappropriate responses of fear or dread to a certain situation, experience, or object
Anxiety Disorders
The information a patient shares with his or her therapist is completely confidential in most cases. One exception is if a therapist believes a patient may hurt himself or herself, or someone else.
Individual Therapy
What is necessary when people are at serious risk of harming themselves or others. People who are depressed and suicidal may need to be hospitalized for a period of time to make sure they do not attempt suicide?
Inpatient Treatment
Which of the following is not an example of a family factor that can increase the risk of a suicide attempt?
A. Financial hardships.
B. Good relationships among family members.
C. Abuse or neglect.
D. Substance abuse.
B. Good Relationships among family members.
What condition is identified by periods of intense depression that alternate with periods of manic moods?
Bipolar Disorder
What mental health illness involves constant and obsessive thoughts or feelings?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
The therapist shares and discusses strategies for managing this common issue with all group members at the same time.
Support Groups
List 5 side effects in using medications for mental health disorders.
Drowsiness • Dizziness • Restlessness • Weight gain • Nausea and vomiting • Increases in suicidal thoughts • Hallucinations • Heart attack or stroke • New or worsening mental health condition
What is the term for a person who has lost a loved one to suicide?
Survivors
What condition is identified by intense negative feelings that do not go away and negatively affect daily life also known as clinical depression?
Major Depression
What mental illness can involve hearing voices and seeing things that are not there and paranoia?
Schizophrenia
All members of a family meet together with a therapist.
Family Therapy
Medications used to treat people with ______ ______ often slow down the central nervous system. This makes people feel calmer and more relaxed.
Anxiety Disorders
What is a series of suicides in a particular community that occur in a relatively short period of time?
Suicide Clusters
What condition is identified by irregular thoughts and delusions, hearing voices, and seeing things that are not there?
Schizophrenia
What mental illness involve a consistent pattern of inappropriate behavior?
Personality Disorders
True or false. Antidepressants manage the symptoms of schizophrenia, which may include hallucinations.
False
Which medication may include hallucinations?
Antipsychotics
What are the 5 stages of grief?
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance