Diagnoses
Eating disorder in which the person does not eat enough food to maintain a healthy weight
Anorexia Nervosa
Person trained to recognize and diagnose behavior but CANNOT prescribe medication
Psychologist
If not managed, this can lead to heart disease, cancer, stroke, and hypertension
Stress
Feelings of sadness or hopelessness that lasts for weeks, months, or even years
Depression
As of 2021, 8th and 10th graders now spend an average of this many hours per day
on social media.
3.5
Abnormal, uncontrollable urge to eat large amounts of food
Binge eating disorder
Professional trained to help people with mental disorders and their families to accept and adjust to the illness.
Social worker (psychiatric)
When stress starts interfering with your ability to live a normal life for an extended period
Chronic stress
Suicide rates are affected by this; the rates increase with temperature
Weather
Social media may also perpetuate body dissatisfaction, disordered eating
behaviors, social comparison, and low self-esteem, especially among this group
Adolescent girls
Uncontrollable urge to eat large quantities of food then removes the food from the body by purging or using laxatives
Bulemia
Person who can diagnose and treat (with medication, if indicated) mental disorders
Psychiatrist
When faced with danger, the body kicks into gear, flooding the body with stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol...leaving these choices
Fight or flight
Skin may dry out, become yellow, and develop a covering of soft hair called lanugo.
Anorexia nervosa
Since electronics can interfere with sleep, they should be put away at least this long before bed
1 hour
Mental disorder that reveals itself through abnormal behaviors related to food
Eating disorder
Person who actually prepares and dispenses prescribed medications
Pharmacist
Talking in this manner to ourselves helps decrease stress and promote mental health wellness
Kindly
The acid in vomit can wear down the outer layer of the teeth, inflame and damage the esophagus (a tube in the throat through which food passes to the
stomach), and enlarge the glands near the cheeks (giving the appearance of swollen
cheeks). Damage to the stomach can also occur from frequent vomiting.
Bulemia
This is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to adult men and women
Illness that affects the mind and reduces a person’s ability to function, to adjust to change, or to get along with other
Mental disorder
FNP is the acronym for this provider
Family Nurse Practitioner
This releases endorphins, or "feel good" hormones that promote positive mental health
Exercise
Difference between "mental health condition" and "serious mental illness"
Substantially limits or interferes with one or more of life's major activities
Difference between organic and functional mental illness
Organic- MEASUREABLE changes in the BODY
Functional- SYMPTOMS but no CLEAR cause