Depression
Depression is one example of this type of disorder or condition.
What is an example of a Mood Disorder (condition)?
A personality disorder (condition) where the person may struggle with identity, either is overly loving or intensely rejecting of others due a fear of abandonment.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (condition)?
100% of a mental health condition is something we're born with (biological).
False
These refer to false beliefs that the person might feel very strongly about, so much so that they will not change their mind, even if you give them evidence against it. An example would be if someone was sure that the government was monitoring their every move in order to eventually do involuntary experiments on them and other world leaders were in on it.
What are Delusions?
This type of Bipolar consists of depressive and manic episodes which alternate and are typically less severe and do not inhibit function.
What is BiPolar II.
This is an example of one treatment people with Depression can do for themselves that can help improve mood. (Not medication or therapy)
What is exercise?
Exercise helps stimulate natural compounds in the body that can make you feel better.
A personality disorder where the person is only concerned with their own needs and never thinks they are wrong or that they need to improve.
Hoarding is a compulsion.
True
Any kind of sensation that's not actually there including visual but also auditory sensations like hearing voices.
What are hallucinations?
This type of BiPolar consists of the most severe mood swings between mania and depression.
What is BiPolar I?
This is the mood that is completely on the on other end of the mood scale on the opposite end of depression.
What is Mania?
This mental health condition includes psychosis as one of the symptoms.
What is Schizophrenia?
The current research shows that mental health conditions are about 50% biological and 50% environmental.
True.
This term refers to having both hallucinations and delusions.
What is psychosis?
This condition is a cyclic disorder that causes brief episodes of hypomania and mild depression
Cyclothymic disorder or Cyclothymia, is a cyclic disorder that causes brief episodes of hypomania and depression.
This term refers to a mild depression that someone has consistently every day. The symptoms are not as severe as depression.
What is Dysthymia?
One of the symptoms of this mental health condition is that the person may act out their anxieties through behaviors like excessive hand-washing or clicking light switches on and off an exact amount of times when they enter a room.
What is one of the symptoms of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Witnessing a traumatic event, even it doesn't happen directly to the person, can cause that person to have symptoms of PTSD.
True.
Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or violence either directly or indirectly (witnessing).
Schizophrenia is often misdiagnosed. True or False?
True. A long duration of evaluating symptoms is necessary to accurately diagnose Schizophrenia.
To be diagnosed with bipolar I or II, a person must have experienced at least one episode of mania or hypomania. Is this true or false?
True
The individual must be experiencing five or more symptoms outlined in the DSM for this many weeks in a row in order to be diagnosed with Depression.
Two weeks
Symptoms of this mental health condition include going between episodes of mania and depression.
What are symptoms of Bi-Polar I?
Diagnosing children under the age of 18 with a personality disorder is straightforward and recommended.
False
These symptoms of Schizophrenia are like the removal of behaviors or of normal processes. For example, like the lack of motivation, lack of energy or lack of pleasure.
What are Negative symptoms?
Thing positive symptoms as adding something that wasn't there like hallucinations or delusions. Negative symptoms are taking something away like energy or pleasure.
Bi Polar combined with Schizophrenia refers to this mental health condition.
What is Schizoaffective?
With this mental health condition, a person has low levels of dopamine and low levels of norepinephrine. As a result, the person has difficulty maintaining interest in something overtime and difficulty with concentration.
What is ADHD?
PTSD stands for Prefrontal Trauma Severity Disorder.
False.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
People with Schizophrenia can go very long periods without symptoms of psychosis if treatment is effective.
True. Psychosis can go into remission in some cases with medication and therapy.
C
True. Mania is part of Bi Polar I.