Depression
This gender is nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression.
What is a female?
This general physical activity can help reduce the signs of fear and stress.
What is exercise?
True or False: everyone who experiences trauma develops PTSD?
If someone does develop PTSD, it is usually within 3 months of trauma and symptoms persist for longer than a month and may interfere with daily life, relationships, or work.
True or False: Bipolar Disorder has a very high chance of being passed down from parents.
True: with genetic factors accounting for approximately 80% of the cause of the condition if both parents have Bipolar Disorder. If one parent has bipolar disorder, there's a 10% chance that their child will develop the illness.
People diagnosed with Schizophrenia are much more likely to lose their lives by this act.
What is suicide? Most studies show a life expectancy reduction of 10-20 years. It is important to be aware of this!
This is a good non-medication treatment for depression.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Connecting thought, emotion, and behavior
- Thought: What we think affects how we act and feel
- Behavior: What we do affects how we think and feel
- Emotion: what we feel affects how we think and do
This everyday practice an help improve anxiety symptoms.
Meditation: Practicing mindfulness and having increased awareness and acceptance of living in the present moment can help with anxiety symptoms.
What are symptoms of depression?
Depressed Mood, loss of interest, low energy, significant weight gain/loss, sleep disturbances
This type of anxiety illness can cause shaking, sweating, dizziness (feeling of spinning around), trouble breathing.
What is a Panic disorder (Panic attack)?
This is a type of therapy that can help treat PTSD.
What is Prolonged Exposure Therapy.
Prolonged exposure is a specific type of cognitive behavioral therapy that teaches individuals to gradually approach trauma-related memories, feelings and situations.
Most people want to avoid anything that reminds them of the trauma they experienced, but doing so reinforces their fear.
By facing what has been avoided, a person can decrease symptoms of PTSD by actively learning that the trauma-related memories and cues are not dangerous and do not need to be avoided.
This sign of illness in Bipolar disorder describes having a really elevated mood (like very happy, irritable, or grand)
What is Mania?
This symptom in Schizophrenia describes a false belief about reality.
What is a delusion?
What type of medication can be helpful for someone with depression?
SSRIs: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
- Sometimes a chemical in the brain and body called serotonin may be low, these medications can help increase this and improve depressive mood symptoms
What type of medication can be helpful for someone with depression?
SSRIs: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
- Sometimes a chemical in the brain and body called serotonin may be low, these medications can help increase this and improve depressive mood symptoms
SNRIs: Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors
- Sometimes a chemical in the brain and body called serotonin or norepinpherine may be low, these medications can help increase this and improve anxiety mood symptoms
This amount of people in the United States have had at least one major episode of depression.
21 million Americans (8.4% of all U.S. adults)
This amount of time is required while having signs of anxiety to be diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
What is 6 months?
This describes things found in every day life that can cause someone with PTSD to have an intense emotional or physical response.
What is a trigger?
Therapy can help identify triggers to help someone reduce their reactions or process them more healthily.
This is the average age that a person with bipolar disorder will be told they have this mental illness.
What is 25 years old?
These two groups of signs are commonly seen in Schizophrenia.
What are Positive symptoms (false belief, seeing or hearing things that are not there) and Negative symptoms (lack of desire to do something, quiet, lack emotion)