Mental Disorders
An ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
What is the most common medication for treating Anxiety and Depression?
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI)
Most common way to boost natural serotonin level?
Exercise (yes, short walks count too)
Focuses on exploring relationships among a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. A therapist will actively work with a person to uncover unhealthy patterns of thought and how they may be causing self-destructive behaviors and beliefs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
There is a correlation between mental and physical health.
Fact
Mental health impacts every area of your life: social life, occupational/educational, spiritual and physical. The same is true the other way around: physical health impacts your mental (and all other aspects of) health.
Frequent and unexpected panic attacks. These attacks are characterized by a sudden wave of fear or discomfort or a sense of losing control even when there is no clear danger or trigger.
Panic Disorder
It happens during certain seasons of the year, most often fall or winter. It is thought that shorter days and less daylight may set off a chemical change in the brain leading to symptoms of depression.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
What chemical deficiency causes anxiety?
Serotonin
Emphasizes validation, or accepting uncomfortable thoughts, feelings and behaviors instead of struggling with them. By having an individual come to terms with the troubling thoughts, emotions or behaviors that they struggle with, change no longer appears impossible and they can work with their therapist to create a gradual plan for recovery.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
The 4 causes of mental disorders are physical factors, heredity, early experiences and recent experiences.
Fact
An intense, unpleasant, and dysfunctional reaction beginning shortly after an overwhelming traumatic event and lasting less than a month. If symptoms persist longer than a month, people are diagnosed as having posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Acute Stress Disorder
What activates fight or flight in the brain?
Amygdala
What lack of chemical makes you depressed?
Dopamine
Replaces negative emotional reactions to difficult memories with less-charged or positive reactions or beliefs. Performing a series of back and forth, repetitive eye movements for 20-30 seconds can help individuals change these emotional reactions.
Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
All Mental Illnesses are curable.
Myth
Most mental illnesses cannot be cured, but they can usually be treated effectively to minimize the symptoms and allow the individual to function in work, school, or social environments.
Mental illness that severely impacts a person's ability to manage their emotions. This loss of emotional control can increase impulsivity, affect how a person feels about themselves, and negatively impact their relationships with others.
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
What is the difference between stress and anxiety?
People under stress experience mental and physical symptoms, such as irritability, anger, fatigue, muscle pain, digestive troubles, and difficulty sleeping.
Anxiety is defined by persistent, excessive worries that don't go away even in the absence of a stressor.
What are the 4 feel-good hormones?
Dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin.
Psychotherapeutic approach that aims to increase engagement in enjoyable physical activities to decrease depression. This is a branch of psychology that focuses on how someone's environment shapes their actions and, therefore, their mental health.
Behavioral Activation Therapy for Depression (BATD)
Trauma can kill you if left untreated.
Fact
Long-term exposure to trauma can lead to chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and substance abuse.
Fear of being in situations where escape may be difficult or embarrassing, or help might not be available in the event of panic symptoms. The fear is out of proportion to the actual situation and lasts generally six months or more and causes problems in functioning.
Agoraphobia
What happens to your body when you perform breathing exercises? Think physical response.
(Name at least 2 out of 5)
Lower blood pressure
Lower Heartrate
Reduce levels of stress hormones
Reduce lactic acid build-up in muscle tissue
Balance levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood
When people experience a traumatic event, their bodies release two major stress hormones.
Norepinephrine (Adrenaline) and cortisol.
an approach to therapy that specifically targets those thoughts, feelings, communications, behaviors, and interpersonal exchanges that patients have learned either to suppress and avoid or to amplify and overemphasize because of early attachment experiences.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Suicide was the third leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10-14 and 25-34 in 2011.
Myth
It was the SECOND leading cause of death between ages 10-14 and 25-34 in 2011.