Eating Disorders
This eating disorder is characterized by an extreme fear of gaining weight and a distorted body image that leads to self-imposed starvation.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
Both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa involve extreme concern with body weight and shape, but in anorexia, the individual is typically this, compared to those with bulimia.
What is underweight?
Give an example of a mood disorder
What is depression or bipolar disorder?
What type of mental health disorder causes
1. Restlessness or feeling on "edge"
2. Difficulty concentrating
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Approx. how many people died from suicide in 2022?
What is 49,000 people?
This type of therapy is often used to help people with phobias, anxiety, and PTSD by gradually exposing them to feared situations in a controlled environment
What is exposure therapy?
This stigma is often associated with mental health disorders and can discourage people from seeking help or receiving treatment.
What is mental health stigma?
This phase of bipolar disorder is characterized by heightened energy, impulsivity, and feelings of euphoria or irritability
What is mania?
People with this disorder engage in episodes of binge eating, followed by behaviors like purging, fasting, or excessive exercise to prevent weight gain.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
This common symptom in both anorexia and bulimia nervosa is the inability to recognize the severity of one's body image distortion
What is distorted body image?
Give an example of an eating disorder
What is Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa?
What disorder causes persistent intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors?
What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
True or False: Did suicide rates decrease between 2018-2020?
True: Suicide rates fell 5% between 2018-2020, but then returned to peak in 2022.
This class of medications, which includes drugs like fluoxetine and sertraline, is often used to treat depression and anxiety disorders.
What are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)?
This initiative, often promoted by organizations like the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), encourages people to talk openly about mental health in order to reduce stigma.
What is mental health awareness or mental health advocacy?
This type of hallucination is the most common in schizophrenia, where individuals hear voices or sounds that aren't actually present
What is auditory hallucinations?
This type of therapy, often used for eating disorders, involves helping people change negative thoughts and behaviors related to food and body image.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Both anorexia and bulimia can lead to serious physical complications, but bulimia is more likely to result in issues with this organ due to frequent purging.
What is the heart?
What is ADHD or Autism?
What mental health disorder has the following symptoms?
1. Manic symptoms that may include euphoria or irritability
2. Increased activity or energy
3. Decreased need for sleep
What is bipolar disorder?
Name a risk factor for suicide. Double points if you can list 4 risk factors.
What is: Depression, Low self-esteem, mental illness, substance abuse, eating disorders, family history, self-mutilation, situational crisis, adverse childhood experience, being bullied, social isolation, lack of access to healthcare, discrimination, lack of relationships.
This approach to therapy focuses on helping individuals identify and challenge negative thoughts and replace them with more balanced, realistic thinking.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?
According to the World Health Organization, this is the number of people worldwide who suffer from mental health conditions, underscoring the global burden of these disorders.
What is one in four people (or 25%)?
In schizophrenia, these are false beliefs that are not based in reality, such as the belief that one is being persecuted or controlled by others.
What are delusions?
Individuals with bulimia nervosa might engage in this behavior to avoid weight gain, which can include self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives.
What is purging?
Unlike anorexia nervosa, which often involves a refusal to eat, individuals with bulimia nervosa typically engage in these episodes followed by compensatory actions.
What is binge eating?
Give an example of a psychotic disorder
What is Schizophrenia?
What mental health disorder causes the following symptoms
1. Disorganized thinking
2. Hallucinations and delusions
What is schizophrenia?
Name a warning sign. Double points if you can list 4.
Behavioral: Withdrawal from social activities
Emotional: Feelings of hopelessness, extreme mood swings.
Verbal: Talking about wanting to die
Physical: Sleep disturbances, increased drug use, self-harm.
This type of therapy is designed to help individuals improve their interpersonal relationships and enhance their social functioning.
What month is Suicide Prevention Month?
What is September?
This type of medication is most commonly used to treat the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions and hallucinations
What are antipsychotics?
In addition to purging, people with bulimia nervosa often engage in this extreme form of exercise to compensate for calories consumed during binge episodes.
What is excessive exercise?
Although anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa share psychological characteristics, this key difference sets them apart: anorexia typically involves this behavior, while bulimia involves this compensatory behavior.
What is starvation (in anorexia) vs. purging or bingeing (in bulimia)?
Give an example of a personality disorder
What is borderline personality disorder or antisocial personality disorder?
What mental health disorder is also known as conduct disorder? This disorder has the following symptoms
1. Persistent behavioral problems such as being defiant
What is disruptive behavioral and dissocial disorders?
List a way of how you should respond to a suicide risk. Double points if you can list 4.
1. Listen
2. Ask directly
3. Encourage professional help
4. Help keep them safe
5. Help them connect to a crisis line
6. Follow up
This therapeutic method, often used for individuals with bipolar disorder, is aimed at stabilizing mood and reducing the frequency of mood swings.
What is mood stabilization therapy?
A condition characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment, commonly affecting those in caregiving or service jobs, is known as this.
What is burnout?
This type of medication, often used to stabilize mood, is commonly prescribed to people with bipolar disorder
What are mood stabilizers?