Mental Disorders

Mental Illness

disorderly functioning of the mind

Causes of Poor Health

• psychological factors (early childhood experiences)

• biological function of the brain (genetic disposition, disease)

• distress

Anxiety Disorders

• occurs even if physical stressor is not present in environment

Anxiety

State of uneasiness, uncertainty, apprehension from an event or situation (real or imaginary)

GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder)

• anxiety that occurs without reason

• sufferer cannot determine cause behind feeling anixety

• fear dreadful things may happen to them

• anxiety attacks

Treatment for GAD

Conditioning: associating pleasant experiences with their fear

Exposure Therapy: exposing them to fear gradually allows recognition that object/situation brings no threat (rational mind over comes irrational mind)

Phobia

intense fear or anxiety caused by a specific situation/thing

OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

Marked by the tendency to excessively perform an active to relieve persistent, unwanted urges

Anorexia, Hoarding

Example of OCD

Obessession

unwanted THOUGHTS, difficult to shake off

Complusion

an ACT that is needed to be perform to relieve anxiety

Major Depression (Mood Disorder)

• long lasting state of feeling deeply unhappy

• OVERWHELMING depression

Symptoms of Major Depression

Anxiety, sleep problems, changes in appetite

Bipolar Affective Disorder (Mood Disorder)

when an individual’s mood changes are extreme, beyond a range considered normal

Maniac

• exaggerated happiness, confused, aggressive, unlimited energy

Depressive

• extreme sadness, fatigue, social withdrawal

Schizophrenia

• marked by disortion of reality, social withdrawal, DISTURBANCES OF THOUGHT, PERCEPTION, MOTOR ACTIVY, and EMOTIONS

Psychosis

• an active state where one feels/is disconnected from reality