What is Mental Illness?
The Past vs. the Present
Mental Illness in Kids
Treatments
Crimes
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What is mental illness?
A wide range of mental health conditions/disorders that affect your mental health.
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In the past, why were some cases of mental illnesses hidden?
People felt embarrassed or ashamed
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Is mental illness threatening the lives of children?
Yes, and increasingly.
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Is there a cure for mental illnesses?
For most, there isn't a cure, but there are treatments.
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Are people with serious mental illnesses, who commit a crime, sent to jail?
No.
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How does mental illness affect your mental health?
Mood, thinking and behaviour
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True or False: The fear over mental illnesses is starting to increase.
False
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What percent of Canadian youth are affected by a mental illness/disorder?
About 10-20%
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Can medication be able to treat mental illnesses?
Yes, but some come with harmful side effects.
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How many of the calls that the police get, involve people with mental illnesses?
A third of the calls.
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What is another way of saying mental illness?
Psychiatric disorder
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What did early Europeans closely link mental problems to?
Demonic possessions, God's will, humeral imbalances
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Only 1 out of every _ children receive the mental health services they need.
5
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Name 3 types of medications used to treat mental illnesses.
antidepressants anti-anxiety medications mood-stabilizing medications anti-psychotic medication e.t.c.
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Are the people just allowed to walked out onto the streets after just committing a serious crime? (And had a mental problem)
No, they had to go through a facility which determined whether or not they was safe to be let out onto the streets.
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1 in every _ Canadians need mental health care.
6
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What did the First Nations and early Europeans settlers think was intimately connected to?
spiritual and physical well being
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How many people die prematurely each year by suicide? a) 1000 b) 3000 c) 4000 d) 4400
c) 4000
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Name two other types of treatment that can be used.
psychotherapy brain stimulation treatments hospital & residential treatment programs substance abuse treatment participating in your own care e.t.c.
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In the 2008 study, how much of the correction population had been diagnosed with a substance use disorder?
over 30%
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Name 5 types of mental illnesses.
Ex. depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, addictive behaviours
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Why do we see a mental illness the same as a physical illness?
We began to realize that mental illness was just as harmful and hurtful as a physical illness.
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Canada's youth suicide rate is the ______ highest in the industrial world.
The third highest!!
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What is psychotherapy?
It is psychological treatment rather than the usual medical means.
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How many people in the correction facility diagnosed with both a substance use disorder and a nondrug-related mental disorder?
More than 75%.
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