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Chapter 45, Mental Health Problems Flashcards

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What causes a difficulty in coping with life?

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No family/friends support
Traumatic experiences
Genetics
Terminal illness
Loss of a job
Loss of family member or spouse
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What is mental health?

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How a person copes with life

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What is anxiety?

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Vague, uneasy feeling in response to stress

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What are defense mechanisms?

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Unconscious reactions that black unpleasant or threatening feelings

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What is denial ( defense mechanism) ?

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Refusing to accept or believe something, denying it

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What is projection (defense mechanism)?

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Blaming another person or object for unacceptable behaviors, emotions, or ideas

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What is repression (defense mechanism)?

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Hold down, keep back thoughts or experiences “forget about I t”

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What is suppression (defense mechanism)?

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Consciously keeping something to yourself

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What is displacement (defense mechanism)?

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A person moves behaviors or emotions from one person, place, or thing to another person, place, or thing

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What is general anxiety disorder?

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Nervous about certain things

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What is panics disorder?

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Intense sudden feeling of fear, terror, anxiety or dread. Person feels shaky, pale, sweaty, HR increases, feels “doomed”

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What is a phobia?

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An intense fear of an object, situation, or activity that has little to no actual danger

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What is OCD?

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder, when a person repeats a act over and over again to make an unpleasant thought go away

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What is PTSD?

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Post-traumatic stress disorder, usually occurs after traumatic events, people get flashbacks that can make person think situation is happening all over again

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What are affective disorders?

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Disturbances in mood

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What is seasonal affective disorder (SAD)?

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When people become depressed in winter

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What is bipolar disorder?

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Extreme mood changes

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What is schizoaffective?

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Loss of contact with reality and causes mood problems

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What is anorexia?

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When people have an intense fear of gaining weight, so they do not eat a lot and tend to see selves as fat

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What is bulimia?

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When girls eat a lot and purged afterward to get all the food out
Common to vomit, use laxatives, enemas, and diuretics

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What is suicide?

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To kill oneself, usually from drepression

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What is schizophrenia?

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Split mind, people become paranoid and have hallucinations

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When taking care of a person who abuses substances, as a CNA what is important for you to make sure you do?

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Don’t judge
Be patient
Don’t take things personal
Decrease alcohol and drugs

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What is self-mutilation?

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Cutting yourself, most common in girls

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What are some suicide warning signs?

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Mood change from sad to happy 
Giving things away
Writing goodbye letters 
Make a will
Purchasing dangerous stuff, gun/pills/rope
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What is sympathy?

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Feeling what the person is feeling

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What is empathy?

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Understanding what the person is going through

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