DSM 5
The presence of excessive anxiety and worry about a variety of topics, events, or activities. Worry occurs more often than not for at least six months and is clearly excessive.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Pixar fim that portrays a young girls five strongest emotions: Joy, Fear, Anger, Fear, and Disgust.
Inside Out
This type of therapy can include painting, drama, music, etc.
Art Therapy
A pill or injection that has no psychopharmacological effects. Often called sugar pills
Placebo
One in _____ Americans has experienced some form of mental illness such as depression and anxiety. While 1 in 25 experiencing serious mental illness, such as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
5
A long-lasting disorder in which a person experiences uncontrollable and recurring thoughts (obsessions), engages in repetitive behaviors (compulsions), or both.
This 2013 movie stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. It portrays Bradley Cooper trying to rebuild his life after being released from a mental hospital by reluctantly entering a dance competition.
Silver Linings Playbook
Thoughts lead to feelings which lead to actions.
CBT
An antihistamine that helps reduce generalized anxiety.
Hydroxyzine (Vistaril)
Many people do not seek treatment for mental illness due to the associated stigma. Only _____% of adults with diagnosable mental illnesses receive treatment. (Plus or Minus five will be correct).
44%
A disorder characterized by a sudden wave of fear or discomfort or a sense of losing control even when there is no clear danger or trigger.
Panic Disorder
A famous book, play, and movie (staring Jack Nicholson) as R.P. McMurphy - a new patient admitted into a mental hospital in 1963. He rebells against the tyrannical nurse - Nurse Ratched.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Originally created to help treat people with borderline personality disorder, this module of psychology helps individuals to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate their emotions, and improve their relationships with others.
DBT
This antipsychotic is used to treat psychotic conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (manic depression) in adults and children at least 13 years old.
Zyprexa (Olanzipine)
This demographic has the highest rate of suicide.
Caucasian Males
A disorder characterized by intense difficulties in interpersonal relationships, an unstable self-concept, impulsivity, disinhibition, risk-taking behaviors, and difficulty managing painful emotions
Borderline Personality Disorder
Ryan Gosling gives one of his most subtle performances to date as Lars, a good-natured, lonely introvert with years of baggage and trauma who turns heads in his small town by embarking upon a romantic relationship with a life-sized love doll named Bianca.
Lars and The Real Girl
A structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation , which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories.
EMDR
This SSRI anti-depressant, is used for the treatment of major depressive disorder, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety, bulimia nervosa, panic disorder, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. A book by Lauren Slater helped catapult this medication into the public eye in 1998, allowing it to become one of the most popular anti-depressants.
Prozac (Fluoxetine)
This Ethnic Group has the highest rate of diagnosed depression in the United States and saw a 14% increase since 2017
African Americans
A person with this personality disorder seeks attention, talks dramatically with strong opinions, is easily influenced, has rapidly changing emotions, and thinks relationships are closer than they are.
This movie stars Winona Ryder as Susanna Kaysen - a young woman who is sent to a mental asylum after she tries to commit suicide. There she forms a bond with many of the patients in the asylum including Lisa (Angelina Jolie) a charismatic rebel who has been there for 8 years .
Girl, Interrupted
A counseling method used that states clients possess the strength and ability to grow and change—even if past attempts at change have failed. It is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence.
A benzodiazepine that is used to control seizures in epilepsy and for the treatment of panic disorder.
Klonopin (Clonazepam)
Second leading cause of death between ages 10-14
Suicide