Mental Health Basics
A mental illness that affects the mind and can reduce a person's ability to function, adjust, change, or get along with others.
What is a mental disorder?
This occurs when anxiety exists for a long time and interferes with a person's daily life.
What is an anxiety disorder?
The disorder represented by the abbreviation OCD.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
An emotional state in which a person feels extremely sad and hopeless.
What is depression?
After surviving a life-threatening event, a person begins experiencing nightmares and flashbacks about the event.
What is PTSD?
A person who experiences extreme sadness and hopelessness may be experiencing __________________________.
What is Depression?
__________________________ is a fear caused by a source that cannot be identified or by a source that does not pose as much of a threat as a person thinks.
What is anxiety?
This disorder may develop after a person survives a life-threatening event and can include flashbacks and nightmares.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
A type of disorder in which people experience extreme emotions that make it difficult to function well in their daily lives.
What is a mood disorder?
A person experiences periods where they are overly excited and restless, followed by periods of deep depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
According to some experts, these experiences may be more likely than early-life experiences to trigger a mental disorder.
What are recent experiences?
Anxiety that is related to a specific situation or object.
What is a phobia?
An unwanted thought or image that takes control of the mind.
What is an obsession?
This disorder involves shifting from one emotional extreme to another and may include manic and depressive periods.
What is bipolar disorder?
A student repeatedly thinks they forgot to lock the door and then checks the lock several times because they fear something bad will happen. The unwanted thought is one part of OCD, while the repeated checking is the other part.
What are an obsession and a compulsion?
This means that a person can inherit an increased risk of developing a mental health disorder, but it does not guarantee they will develop it.
What is heredity?
This specific phobia is an intense fear of spiders.
What is arachnophobia?
An unreasonable need to behave in a certain way to prevent a feared outcome.
What is a compulsion?
This disorder is identified by severe disturbances in thinking, mood, awareness, and behavior.
What is schizophrenia?
A person experiences severe disturbances in thinking and may believe that someone or something is controlling their thoughts. This disorder best matches the situation.
What is schizophrenia?
Brain injuries, tumors, infections, and exposure to poisons such as lead are examples of these factors that can contribute to mental health disorders.
What are physical factors?
A student becomes extremely fearful whenever they are in a small, enclosed space such as an elevator.
What is claustrophobia?
A student repeatedly has the thought that they forgot to lock their front door. Even after checking the door several times, the thought continues to bother them. Which part of OCD does the repeated unwanted thought represent?
What is obsession?
This is the movie that we talked about in class where the main character had Schizophrenia?
What is Split?
A person repeatedly feels an uncontrollable urge to steal items, even though they know stealing is wrong.
What is an impulse-control disorder?