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A community-based approach that includes family, friends, and many different professional and social service provides tat are committed to reducing suicide by creating a safety net that provides protection.
What is suicide Prevention?
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of specific voluntary body function
Conversion Disorder
Parenting style in which parents are demanding and unresponsive towards child's needs or wishes.
Authoritarian
A nerve cell. The basic building block of the nervous system.
Neurons
Chemicals that go from one neuron to the other
Neurotransmitters
Higher thinking abilities like morals and ethics.
What is monkey brain?
DO genes or Environment factors contribute more to a person's being?
Nature VS Nurture
A chronic form of unipolar depression marked by ongoing and repeated symptoms of either major or mild depression.
Persistant Depressive Disorder
Explanation of human behavior and it's functions that emphasizes the influence of social environment and early experiences.
Psychological Tradition
An eating disorder characterized by binging and purging.
Bulimia
Gathering information through the five senses and focusing on what actually exists.
What is Sensing?
Treating mental disorders through physical means like blood letting, electro shocks, brain surgery...
Biological Tradition
Any sleep disturbance that regularly causes distress or impairment in important areas of everyday life during normal waking hours.
Sleep Disorder
The sudden loss of muscle control
Cataplexy
Difficulty falling asleep and/or staying asleep.
Insomnia
Explaining mental illness with witches, evil spirits, supernatural elements.
Supernatural Tradition
A community based approach that includes family and friends, different professionals and services, providers that can create a safety net.
Suicide prevention
Similar to bipolar disorder but it occurs in accordance to a woman's cycle.
Pre Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Eating disorder where the person an irrational fear of gaining weight. They usually loose a lot of weight and can die.
Anorexia
The fear of what might happen in the future
Anxiety
An irrational fear of a specific thing
Specific Phobia
An approach to child rearing that is characterized by high nurturance and communication, but little discipline, guidance or control.
Permissive Parenting
Higher thinking abilities like morals and ethics
Monkey Brain
A mood disorder marked by hyperactivity and super optimistic states
Mania
A disorder marked by obsessive thoughts and and compulsions based on those thoughts
OCD