True or false
T/F: Poor mental health increases the risk for long-lasting (chronic) physical conditions like heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
true
A treatable mental disorder that affects a person's brain and behavior, leading to their inability to control their use of substances like legal or illegal drugs, alcohol, or medications.
Substance Use Disorder
a mental condition, beginning in childhood and often persisting into later life, that is characterized by persistent difficulty in maintaining attention and concentration, and is frequently accompanied by hyperactive and impulsive behavior.
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder
Having an abnormally high level of activity or energy. Feeling extremely happy or excited — even euphoric. Not sleeping or only getting a few hours of sleep but still feeling rested. Having inflated self-esteem, thinking you're invincible. Engaging in risky behavior
Mania
Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge eating disorder, Pica, Rumination disorder, Avoidant food intake, are all types of eating disorders. There are more!
T/F: Mental health problems are rare
False. More than 1 in 5 US adults live with a mental illness.
people with THIS believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings.
Narcissistic personality disorder
features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears known as obsessions. These obsessions lead you to do repetitive behaviors, also called compulsions. These obsessions and compulsions get in the way of daily activities and cause a lot of distress.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
A normal human response that we feel when we are worried, tense or afraid. It can also present as a disorder, which makes a person constantly worried.
Anxiety
T/F: Nothing can be done to protect people from developing mental health conditions.
Fact: Many factors can protect people from developing mental health conditions, including strengthening social and emotional skills, seeking help and support early on, developing supportive, loving, warm family relationships, and having a positive school environment and healthy sleep patterns.
T/F: Mania Increases Productivity
False
“Often they feel like they are productive, but after the mania resolves, the work or activities they did are not as good as they thought,” says Weeks.
THIS is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, series of events or set of circumstances. An individual may experience this as emotionally or physically harmful or life-threatening and may affect mental, physical, social, and/or spiritual well-being. Examples include natural disasters, serious accidents, terrorist acts, war/combat, assault, historical trauma, intimate partner violence and bullying
PTSD
A mental health disorder characterized by persistently lowered mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.
Depression
A perception of having seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled something that wasn't actually there
THIS is a neurotransmitter made in your brain. It plays a role as a “reward center” and in many body functions, including memory, movement, motivation, mood, attention and more.
It is a key component in addicition.
Dopamine!!!
T/F: Depression occurs when a person doesn't try hard enough. People can pick themselves up out of depression if they just get motivated.
Depression is a disease that impacts one's ability to take care of themselves. Without treatment, depression can last for months or even years. It is important to reach out to friends and professionals.
THIS is not a specific disease but is rather a general term for the impaired ability to remember, think, or make decisions that interferes with doing everyday activities. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of THIS
Dementia
This causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).
Bipolar disorder
A sudden episode of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions when there is no real danger or apparent cause. THESE can be very frightening. When THEY occur, you might think you're losing control, having a heart attack or even dying.
Can PTSD be treated?
How?
Cognitive behavioral therapy
EMDR therapy
Narrative exposure therapy
Medication
and more!
T/F: You only need to take care of your mental health if you have a mental health condition.
Mental health maintenance is important for EVERYBODY!
A 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
A complex psychotic disorder characterised by disruptions to thinking and emotions, and a distorted perception of reality. Symptoms of THIS vary widely but may include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, social withdrawal, lack of motivation and impaired thinking and memory.
Schizophrenia
THIS Refers to a collection of symptoms that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality.
This might include suspiciousness, brain fog, isolation, strange feelings
Psychosis
List 3 types of dementia
Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, Frontotemporal dementia, Normal pressure hydrocephalus, Huntington’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome