DEFINITIONS
MENTAL ILLNESS 1
MENTAL ILLNESS 2
Eating Disorders
BINGE/SMOKING
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What is the definition of "mental illness"?
MENTAL ILLNESS: thoughts or emotions that decrease a person's ability to deal with everyday life
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What are the two main causes of mental illness?
(1) biological and (2) environmental
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Name FIVE signs of depression
eating changes, sleep changes, lack of interest, feeling overwhelmed, extreme sadness, crying without always knowing why, thoughts of suicide (not just for a day or after a single situation but for weeks or months at a time)
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Anorexia is a form of __________
self-starvation
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People who struggle with binge eating eat to _____ _____
extreme excess
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What is anxiety?
ANXIETY: a natural reaction to danger or threat
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What might cause someone suffer from mental illness for biological reasons?
a chemical imbalance, genetics, a stroke, a head injury
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What are FOUR signs of anxiety?
excessive worry fear about death phobias (clausterphobia, ..) withdrawing from social activities because of fear
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People who struggle with anorexia... (behaviors)
- think they are fat when they are not - eat much less than their bodies need - move food around to look like they are eating
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What kinds of things do binge eaters do? What are some marks of binge eating? (3 things)
- eating a lot of food at once - guilty feelings - eating in secret
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What is stress?
STRESS: mental or emotional strain
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What might cause someone suffer from mental illness for environmental reasons?
friend problems, stress at home, divorce, moving, career issues, school/grades, cloudy skies - lack of sunlight
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What is schizophrenia
a mental illness where people have hallucinations (see or hear things that aren't there)
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Why is anorexia dangerous to your health (what happens to the body)?
- slow and weak HEART RATE - weak BONES - loss and weakness of MUSCLES - DEHYDRATION - fatigue and FAINTING - dry HAIR and SKIN
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What happens to the body with binge eating? (4 answers)
- high BLOOD PRESSURE - high CHOLESTEROL - risk of TYPE II DIABETES - HEART DISEASE
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What is stigma?
STIGMA: society's disapproval of an action or behavior
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What is post-traumatic stress syndrome? (PTSD)
mental illness caused by a great trauma or horrible experience (soldiers in combat, seeing someone die, kidnapping, accident, etc.)
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Name five HEALTHY ways that people cope with mental illness.
medication, talking to a friend, talking to a counselor, exercise, sleep, eating well, talk to a parent or other trusted adult
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People who struggle eat a lot and then purge by _____________ or _____________ or both.
- throwing up - using laxatives
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Name 5 HEALTH reasons not to smoke.
- cancer - tar in your lungs - high blood pressure - hard to breathe/run/exercise - heart attack risk - addiction
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What is depression?
DEPRESSION: mood changes marked by a disinterest in life and activities
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What is bipolar disorder? (also called manic-depression)
a mental illness where one experiences extreme high moods (fun-loving, funny, quick wit,..) or extreme lows (deep depression, sometimes suicidal)
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Name five UNHEALTHY ways that people deal with mental illness.
avoid the topic, drugs, withdraw from friends, sleep too much, watch TV or movies all the time, play video games too long, bottle it up and hope it will go away
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What happens to the body with bulimia? (5 answers)
- ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE - irregular HEART RATE - possible RUPTURE of esophagus and stomach - TOOTH decay - ULCERS
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Name 4 SOCIAL reasons not to smoke.
- people don't like the smoke - hairy tongue - bad breath - second-hand smoke (this is really a health reason too)
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