SUBSTANCE ABUSE
The use of mood-altering drugs that interfere with or have a negative effect on a person's life.
What is drug abuse?
A mental health disorder in which people feel restless, irritable, and on edge, are easily tired, experience muscle tension, and have a hard time concentrating. People with this disorder experience symptoms most days for months at a time.
What is anxiety?
Are beliefs that are (1) not true, (2) based on an incorrect assumption about the world, and (3) held very strongly by someone even though other people do not believe it. For example, someone may believe they are being followed even when they are not.
What are delusions?
Behaviors or mental acts that people feel driven to do over and over in response to an obsession. People do these behaviors or mental acts in order to reduce emotional discomfort.
What are compulsions?
This recreational drug was originally developed as a treatment for asthma.
What is amphetamine?
Involves the use of mood-altering drugs that interfere with or have a negative effect on a person's life. It is a disorder that is chronic, gets worse over time, and involves compulsion, loss of control, and continued use despite serious problems.
What is addiction?
A mental health disorder in which people have intense mood swings between depression and mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
When a person perceives something that does not exist. People who experience these believe that they perceive something through their senses (such as sight or hearing) even though their sense organs (such as their eyes and ears) are not being stimulated. For example, someone may "see" images or "hear" sounds that do not exist.
What are hallucinations?
A way to describe a situation in which people talk incoherently (they don't make much sense), quickly jump from one topic to another, and respond to questions with answers that are unrelated to the question.
What is disorganized thinking?
This recreational drug was first popularized by California psychotherapists who tried to use it for "empathy training" in marriage counseling.
What is ecstasy?
Any chemical, substance, or medicine that changes a person's mood.
What are mood-altering drugs?
A disorder in which people feel sad or empty, have limited interest or pleasure in activities, have insomnia or sleep too much, and have no energy most of the day and nearly everyday.
What is depression?
What people experience who have a huge burst of energy and activity and appear impulsive, agitated, or irritated. It is quite unpleasant and often frightening to the individual involved.
What is mania?
Thoughts, images, or impulses that a person does not wish to have and that cause a lot of anxiety or discomfort. They occur over and over and against the will of the person.
What is obsessions?
Five areas of mental ability are consistently compromised by chronic _______ abuse: memory formation, abstract thinking, problem solving, attention and concentration, and perception of emotion.
What is alcohol?
Describes the existence of both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder in the same person.
What are co-occurring disorders?
Are periods in which a person suddenly experiences intense fear, anxiety, and impending doom. The person also experiences shortness of breath, a racing heart, chest pain or discomfort, and a fear of losing control.
What are panic attacks?
A strong, irrational fear and avoidance of an object or situation.
What is phobia?
Checking, washing, counting, arranging and making items appear orderly, repeating words silently, and demanding reassurances are all examples of _______.
What is compulsions?
_______ are drugs that change one's thought processes, mood, and perceptions. The word itself is derived from the Latin word alucinare, which means "to wander in mind, talk idly, or prate."
An abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person. Most people who have the same _______ have very similar symptoms. _______ tend to follow a predictable course or path and most can be treated.
What is a disease?
An emotional or psychological injury, usually caused by being exposed to an extremely stressful or life-threatening situation.
What is trauma?
Mental health disorders in which individuals experience delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized thinking.
What is psychotic disorders?
Fear of contamination or dirt, repeated doubts, need for order/symmetry, aggressive impulses, and sexual impulses are all examples of _______.
What are obsessions?
List three coping mechanisms one can use if they have a co-occurring disorder?
Examples: Individual therapy, group therapy, medication, outside support meetings, etc.