Anxiety Disorders
Typical symptoms of anxiety disorders would include the following:
fidgeting, rapid heart rate, sweating, darting eyes
People who struggle with impulse control may also struggle with what other mental health issues?
anger, mood regulation, anxiety, depression, eating disorder
Medical illness that causes persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest. Alcoholism and illicit drug use strongly worsen the course of this illness and are often associated with it.
Major Depression, Depression
two or more illnesses or disorders occurring in the same person
Co-Morbidity
This disorder is characterized by constant worry and anxiety over different activities and events. The main symptom is the almost constant presence of worry or tension, even when there is little or no cause.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A pattern of deliberately setting fires for pleasure or satisfaction derived from the relief of tension experienced before the fire-setting
Pyromania
A mental illness that causes people to have severe high and low moods. People who have this illness switch from feeling overly happy and joyful to feeling very say and vice versa.
Bipolar Depression
Genetic predisposition, gender, ethnicity, personality traits are all what type of influential factors in determining your risk for substance use and mental health?
Biological Factors
This can occur after you've seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. It can occur at any age and occurs following events like natural disasters, assaults, domestic abuse, prison stay, or war.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Complex disorder characterized by repeated, failed attempts to stop stealing. It is often seen in patients who are chemically dependent or who have coexisting mood, anxiety, or eating disorder.
A mild, but chronic form of depression. Symptoms usually last for at least two years and often for much longer than that.
Dysthymic Disorder
Stress, trauma, and early exposure to drugs are all what type of influential factors in determining your risk for substance use and mental health?
Environmental Factors
You have repeated attacks of intense fear that something bad will happen. A person often lives in fear of another attack and may be afraid to live alone or far from help.
Panic Disorder
Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)
a type of depression linked to seasonal changes, typically starting in fall/winter with less sunlight and improving in spring/summer, causing sadness, low energy, sleep/appetite changes (like carb cravings), loss of interest, and withdrawal.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
Is drug addiction a mental illness?
Yes
People have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations, or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something. Often the person will carry out the behaviors to get rid of the obsessive thoughts, but this only provides temporary relief. Not performing the obsessive ritual can cause great anxiety.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Persistent and recurrent maladaptive gambling behavior or preoccupation with gambling, the need to gamble with increasing amounts of money in order to achieve the desired excitement, restlessness or irritability when attempting to stop gambling, or gambling as a way to escape their problems
Pathological Gambling
a severe, cyclical mood and physical condition, much worse than PMS, causing intense irritability, depression, anxiety, and fatigue, often leading to significant life disruption before periods, typically improving after menstruation starts.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder(PMDD)
Alcohol, followed by nicotine and marijuana