Mental Illness
A mental illness that involves a persistent feeling of sadness or loss of interest that interferes with daily life
What is Depression?
Enables people to cope with stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn & work well, contribute to their community.
What is Mental Health?
Mary Rothchild, a 36-year-old mother of three, has been married for 15 years. Her husband states that she sleeps most of the time at home and has avoided conversations with him and the children for the past month. She was formerly an excellent housekeeper but now shows little interest. Upon interviewing her, she appears sad but is alert, oriented, and cooperative to all requests.
What is Depression?
A feeling of fear, dread, or uneasiness that can be a normal reaction to stress
What is Anxiety?
Refers to a wide range mental disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior.
What is Mental Illness?
Veteran returns from a combat-related tour of duty in Iraq. He cannot remember who he is or anyone in his family. After six months, he begins to remember seeing battle buddies mortally wounded during combat.
What is PTSD?
A mental illness that causes extreme mood swings, or shifts in mood, energy, and activity levels
What is Bipolar?
A mental illness affects a person’s brain and behavior, leading to their inability to control their use of substances like legal or illegal drugs, alcohol, or medications.
What is Substance Use Disorder?
Phil is a 25-year-old male who reports that his biggest problem is worrying. He worries all of the time. For example, he reports equal worry about his wife who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, and whether he returned his book to the library. He recognizes that his wife is more important than a book, and is bothered that both cause him similar levels of worry. Phil is unable to control his worrying. Accompanying this excessive and uncontrollable worry are difficulty falling asleep, impatience with others, difficulty focusing at work, and significant back and muscle tension.
What is Anxiety?
A chronic mental illness that affects how people think, feel, and behave. People may experience hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and unusual behaviors
What is Schizophrenia?
A person experiences uncontrollable and recurring thoughts (obsessions), engages in repetitive behaviors (compulsions), or both.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Gary is a 19-year-old who recently withdrew from college. He grew increasingly irritable and intolerant of family members. He also increased the number of high-risk behaviors – drinking and engaging in sexual relations in a way that was unlike his previous history. At the present time, he has been placed on a mood stabilizer.
What is Bipolar?
A mental illness that occurs in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, series of events, or set of circumstances. An individual may experience this as emotionally or physically harmful or life-threatening and may affect mental, physical, social, and/or spiritual well-being.
What is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
A mental illness that affects the way people feel about themselves and others, making it hard to function in everyday life. It includes a pattern of unstable, intense relationships, as well as impulsiveness and an unhealthy way of seeing themselves.
What is Borderline personality disorder?
An adult male who was seen at a psychiatric unit complained of hearing voices for the past 10 months and loss of appetite. He also complained that he roamed around town, and even though he returned home, he was sometimes physically abusive to his mother and sister. The patient further added that he felt unsafe and thought that people wanted to harm him.
What is Schizophrenia?