Mental Disorders
This is a mood disorder that causes persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest. It affects how one feels, thinks, and behaves which leads to a variety of emotional and physical problems.
Depression
This describes a practice where an individual focuses attention and awareness, using techniques such as mindfulness, for the purpose of attaining a calm, clear state of mind.
Meditation
A trained medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.
Psychiatrist
This is also known as “talk therapy.” It is when a person speaks with a trained therapist in a safe and confidential environment. Some popular forms of this are cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
Psychotherapy
The symptoms of this disorder include altered perceptions (changes in vision, hearing, smell, touch, and taste), delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking/speech, and abnormal motor behavior.
Schizophrenia
This coping mechanism uses organic compounds (essential oils, not drugs) to improve their mood, state, or health.
Aromatherapy
A person that studies cognitive, behavioral, social, and other mental processes who is unable to prescribe medication.
Psychologist
Research has shown that spending time with these creatures can reduce anxiety, depression, fatigue, and pain for many people. Hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical facilities sometimes make use of this effect by offering this.
Therapy/Emotional-Support Animals
This disorder is often associated with the changes in self-identity and self-image that include shifting goals and values. Common behaviors include intense fear of abandonment or instability, impulsiveness, and mood swings.
Borderline Personality Disorder
This practice involves releasing or taking out any sort of negative emotion through a blank canvas, music, acting, and other forms of the medium.
Making Art
Individuals employed in educational settings that provide students with academic and career advice as well as personal and emotional support.
Guidance Counselor
Doctors prescribe __ that influence the brain chemicals to regulate emotions and reduce certain symptoms. Doctors would need to review clinical records.
Psychiatric Drugs
Risk factors of this condition include experiencing intense or long-lasting trauma, having a job that increases risk to being exposed to traumatic events (ex: military and first responders) lacking support from family and friends, and having problems with substance misuse.
PTSD
Examples of this coping mechanism include pursed lip breathing, breath focus technique, and lion's breath.
Mindful Breathing
Professionals that assist individuals, families, groups, and communities with behavioral, mental, and emotional issues.
Social Worker
This is a group of chemicals found in a number of different foods, including fish. Studies have found that these types of chemicals are useful in the management of both medical and mental illnesses.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
This disorder involves 3 types. All involve clear changes in mood, energy, and activity levels. The moods range from periods of extreme elated, irritable, or energized behavior and indifferent depressive episodes.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar I disorder, Bipolar II disorder, and Cyclothymic Disorder (EXTRA POINTS)
It is the process in which one engages in physical activity to maintain or improve health.
Exercise
Medical professionals that specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders that affect the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
Neurologist
This setting is for some people with mental health conditions that also have substance abuse concerns. The most widely used form of treatment is integrated intervention.
Substance Abuse Treatment Centers