a chronic mental illness that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. may experience hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior
Schizophrenia
Helps people change the way they think about situations to manage problems
CBT
Mental health issues are a result of personality weakness or character flaws, and people can "snap out of it" if they try hard enough.
Myth
Symptoms include extreme dieting, movement, and binge eating
Eating Disorders
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Bipolar Disorder
a mental health condition that can develop after someone experiences or witnesses a traumatic event: A serious injury or threat to life, A violent personal assault, A natural or human-caused disaster, An accident, and Combat.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
A behavioral therapy that helps people reduce fear by exposing them to feared objects, activities, or situations in a safe environment
Exposure Therapy
Biological factors, such as genes, physical illness, injury, or brain chemistry contribute to mental health
FACT
Include Depression and Bipolar disorder
Mood Disorders
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Children or teens with this disorder may act aggressively towards people or animals, bully, threaten, or start fights. They may also lie, steal, destroy property, or skip school.
Conduct Disorder
Based on the idea that childhood experiences and behavior are rooted in the past. Psychodynamic therapy helps people improve self-awareness and change deep-seated pattern
Schizophrenia affects 1 in 500 people world wide
Myth
Includes oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder
Disruptive behavior disorders
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PTSD
mental disorder characterized by paranoia, and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.
a form of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists treat a small group of clients together
Group Therapy
People with ARFID do not typically restrict food based on caloric value or how 'healthy' they are, but based on fear or comfortability.
ARFID avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
FACT
Schizophrenia, delusional disorder
Psychotic disorders
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Borderline Personality Disorder
a mental disorder that causes people to have unwanted, recurring thoughts and behaviors that they feel they must repeat
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
replaces negative emotional reactions to difficult memories with less-charged or positive reactions or belief
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
considered controversial
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder is a common mental disorder but not shared much in the media
Myth
One of the rarest mental health disorders
Includes borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder
Personality disorders
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Antisocial Personality Disorder