Mental Disorders
The apprehensive anticipation of future danger or misfortune accompanied by the feelings of worry, distress, and/or tension.
A level of outpatient care providing non-residential treatment, multiple days a week, utilizing group-based psychotherapy, individual therapy, family counseling, and educational groups.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
The act of intentionally causing one's own death.
Suicide
1-800-232-TALK
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
You expect the worst outcome in any situation. You often find yourself thinking, “What if…?”
Catastrophizing
Persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life
Depression
The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.
Coping skills
A subjective complaint of difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or poor sleep quality
Insomnia
What percentage of American adults will experience a mental illness within a given year?
20% (1 out of 5 Americans)
This kind of thinking deals in extremes. People and situations are either great or terrible. You don’t allow room for balanced perspectives or outcomes.
Black-and-white thinking
Episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs
Bipolar Disorder
A psycho-therapeutic program for anger prevention and control
Anger Management
A dissociative state during which aspects of a traumatic event are experienced as though they were occurring at the moment
Flashback
This was listed among the top 9 leading causes of death for people ages 10-64
suicide
You base your decisions not on what someone says or does, but on what you believe they’re thinking.
Mind Reading
A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing/witnessing an event causing/threatening death, serious injury, or sexual violence to an individual, close family member, or friend.
PTSD
Therapy that helps people learn how to identify and change destructive thought patterns that have a negative influence on behavior and emotions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Unwanted thoughts that occur without warning or control, often repetitive, and can cause emotional distress
Intrusive thoughts
Anxiety, depression, and this disorder all are estimated to be approximately 20-45% inherited.
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
You view yourself, your life, and your future through a negative lens. You ignore anything positive.
Mental filtering
Disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives their environment to be unsafe with no easy way to escape.
Agoraphobia
An unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings related to internal conflicts and outer stressors
Defense Mechanisms
Features characterized by delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or formal thought disorder
Psychosis or Psychotic Features
The lifetime risk of suicide in individuals with bipolar disorder is estimated to be at least ___ times that of the general population.
15
You falsely believe that everything that someone says or does is a direct reaction to you. It can convince you that you are being targeted or excluded.
Personalization