Disorders
An illness characterized by persistent sadness and a loss of interest in activities that you normally enjoy, accompanied by an inability to carry out daily activities.
What is Depression?
In this form of therapy, psychologists create a safe environment in which to “expose” individuals to the things they fear and avoid. The exposure to the feared objects, activities or situations in a safe environment helps reduce fear and decrease avoidance.
What is Exposure Therapy?
Physician that specializes in mental health diagnoses.
What is a psychiatrist?
What are things that can promote positive mental health?
Exercise, mindfulness, positive friendships, talking about your problems.
People who are addicted to their phones are more likely to be diagnosed with what?
What is depression?
Anticipation of a future concern and is more associated with muscle tension and avoidance behavior.
What is Anxiety?
A form of psychotherapy that focuses on relieving symptoms by improving interpersonal functioning.
What is Interpersonal Therapy?
Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, or smelling something that is not there.
What is a hallucination?
True or False: Diet impacts our mental health.
True.
A coping skill that allows us to focus the mind to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
What is meditation?
A serious mental condition of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
What is Schizophrenia?
A type of talk therapy for people who experience emotions very intensely. It's a common therapy for people with borderline personality disorder, but therapists provide it for other mental health conditions as well.
What is DBT?
Thought process where you find the worst in everything, lowering expectations by expecting the worst case scenario.
What is cognitive distortion?
True or false: All stress is bad.
False.
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.
What is a panic attack?
An eating disorder characterized by restriction of food intake leading to low body weight, typically accompanied by intense fear of gaining weight and disturbed perception of body weight and image.
What is Anorexia?
A type of psychotherapy in which negative patterns of thought about the self and the world are challenged in order to alter unwanted behavior patterns or treat mood disorders such as depression.
What is CBT?
How many Americans suffer with a Mental illness?
What is 1 in 5 Americans?
Positive thinkers and those who are able to adapt to stress and changes of life have a strong level of _____.
Resilience.
Who you can talk to when feeling suicidal.
Any trusted adult.
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.
Therapy in which eye movements and guided instructions, accessing traumatic memories helps you reprocess what you remember from the negative event. That reprocessing helps “repair” the mental injury from that memory.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing?
When the symptoms you are experiencing are given a name.
What is a diagnosis?
What country has the highest rate of mental health disorders in the world?
The United States
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
False