Basics
Some areas of life that people experiencing mental illness can struggle with.
What is romantic relationships, workplace, friends, connecting to a community, emotional and physical issues.
These types of anxieties involve unrealistic fears that cause the individual large amounts of stress.
What are phobias?
Yes or no...If family members have a history of depression, you are put at a higher risk for depression.
Yes
Name three things you should ask a pharmacist or doctor when getting prescribed medication for a mental illness.
What are the side effects?
How long should i take it for?
How often should i take this?
What time of day should i take this?
Preoccupation and excessive imagined deficit in body appearance.
What is Body Dysmorphic disorder?
An example of a mental illness that an antipsychotic medication would treat.
What is schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar with psychosis, major depression with psychosis?
A mental health condition in which a person is often worried about many things and finds it hard to control.
What is Anxiety?
True or False: Bi-Polar Disorder and Manic Depression are the same thing.
True
75 percent of people with a diagnosable mental illness receive no treatment at all. True or False?
True
Client responds to very stressful experiences with an interruption of conscious awareness of themselves and surroundings.
What are Dissociative disorders?
The best thing to drink to keep you hydrated.
What is water?
Ways to calm anxiety.
What is
A persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest and can interfere with your daily functioning.
What is depression?
In 1943, Drs. Leo Kanner and Hans Asberger each used this word for the then-unnamed disorder they were studying.
What is autism?
Preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease, persists despite reassurances.
What is Hypochondria?
An example of a misconception about people with mental illnesses.
People are potentially violent and/or dangerous, people are responsible for their conditions, and are always able to change themselves by having a positive attitude.
An anxiety disorder characterized by overwhelming anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social situations.
What is Social phobia, also called Social Anxiety Disorder?
Symptoms of Depression
Changes in sleep, appetite, energy level, concentration, daily behavior, or self-esteem.
In this type of illness, the physical ailment (such as peptic ulcers) is real, but the cause is believed mental.
What is psychosomatic?
What is a drug caused movement disorder?
Tardive dyskinesia
This should be taken daily to ward off osteoporosis.
What is Calcium?
An anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations, or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something.
What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
A type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you have gone through an extreme emotional trauma that involved the threat of injury or death.
What is Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
Papyrophobia is the fear of this-touching it, seeing it, being cut by it.
What is paper?
From the Latin for "about a day," these body rhythms govern cycles of wakefulness and sleep.
What is circadian?