Anxiety Disorders
This is a normal feeling people experience when faced with a threat or when feeling stressed
What is anxiety?
10 percent of new mothers are diagnosed with this disorder. Mothers with this illness find it difficult to cope with everyday life.
What is Postpartum Depression?
This is the most commonly diagnosed behavioral disorder in childhood. Boys are more likely than girls to develop this disorder. People with this disorder are easily distracted by sights, sounds, and other things in their environment.
What is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
Name 3 signs and/or symptoms of Anorexia Nervosa.
What is: loss of at least 15% of body weight
refusal to maintain a normal body weight
fear of becoming fat
misperception of body image
and preoccupation with the preparation of food.
This medication can be prescribed by a doctor to treat Anxiety Disorders and Mood Disorders (ex. Major Depressive Disorder). These medications are NOT addictive.
What are Antidepressants?
These disorders are characterized by persistent feelings of intense anxiety. There are feelings of continual or extreme discomfort and tension, and may include panic attacks.
What are Anxiety Disorders?
This is the most common mood disorder. This can come on without any apparent cause, but in some cases a distressing event might trigger it.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This disorder has two extreme mood swings - from depression and sadness to excitement and possible delusions of grandeur. People with this disorder experience recurrent episodes of these mood swings if untreated.
What is Bipolar Mood Disorder?
Name 2 signs/symptoms of Bulimia Nervosa.
What is consume a large amount of food
loss of control
avoids weight gain by self induced vomiting
strong concerns about body shape and weight
This therapy/treatment can help people understand their illness and better manage life situations.
What is Psychotherapy
People with this disorder worry constantly about themselves or their loved ones, financial disaster, their health, work, or personal relationships; this disorder manifests in physical symptoms like stomach aches, headaches, etc.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Bipolar, Major Depressive Disorders, and other disorders fall into this category.
What are Mood Disorders?
People who have this disorder experience persistent, recurrent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts. They try to stop the thoughts of anxiety by repeating ritualized behaviors.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
These are false beliefs of guilt, grandeur, and paranoia.
What are Delusions?
This assists people in sorting out practical problems and conflicts and helps teach people coping skills. This can help people with and without a mental illness.
What is general supportive counseling?
People with this disorder fear that others will judge everything they do negatively. They are easily embarrassed in social situations. They may feel flawed or worthless if there is any sign of poor performance.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
______ thinking styles include "All or nothing" thinking, jumping to conclusions, emotional reasoning, labeling, over-generalizing, etc.
What is unhelpful?
Someone with this disorder experiences delusions and/or hallucinations.
What is Schizophrenia?
Symptoms of this disorder can be night terrors
emotional distress
anxiety
fear
reoccurring images or thoughts.
This type of therapy helps people identify their trigger/s, and work to alter their reaction to them.
This disorder is the fear of being in places or situations that might become difficult or embarrassing to escape, or the fear that help is unavailable in the event of having a panic attack.
What is Agoraphobia?
For severe forms of depression this treatment is safe and effective.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
This is the definition of having delusions, hallucinations, AND impaired contact with reality.
What is Psychosis?
This is a normal response to life events. This helps us understand and adapt our behaviors.
What is Everyday Stress?
These medications are used for temporary relief of anxiety. These medications are addictive and require a prescription and photo id.
What are Benzodiazepines (Valium and Xanax)