Mental Health Flashcards
What are the four aspects of health?
Physical, mental, social, and spiritual
Describe the aspect of physical health:
The health of physical fitness. Having enough energy for daily work and activities. It’s more than just not being sick. It’s to be fit. Many diseases and disabilities fit into this category.
Describe the aspect of mental health:
Intellectual and emotional aspects. Being able to live comfortably with yourself. Deal with problems in life. More than an absence of disorder. Able to deal with the problem. No one is perfectly healthy. Except me, of course.
Describe the aspect of social health:
Involving roles such as family, friends, students and team. We need to know how to play these roles correctly. live comfortably with others. Social but still have some difficulty getting along with people.
What are cognitive signs and symptoms?
Difficulty concentrating or thinking.
Memory problems.
Negativity or lack of self-confidence.
Constant worrying.
Difficulty making decisions.
What are emotional signs and symptoms?
Moodiness
Low morale.
Irritability.
Feeling hopeless or helpless?
Feeling apprehensive, anxious or nervous?
Feeling depressed.
Feeling unhappy or guilty?
Unable to relax.
Describe the aspect of spiritual health:
You need to understand that you need to be spiritually healthy as well. If not, the other three areas can be adversely affected. To constantly ask how you are spiritually. How do you stand with God? Are you spiritually healthy? Yall gota just yap a bit on this one
What is stress?
Physical, chemical, or emotional factors that cause bodily or mental functions, may be a factor in disease causation. The body’s reaction to a challenge danger. The body’s reaction to a threat. General physical changes produced by any stimulus, either pleasant or unpleasant.
What the stigma?
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A mark of disgrace, a stain on your reputation, Discrimination, defects or diseases
What are behavioural signs and symptoms?
Changes in eating or sleeping patterns.
Social withdrawal.
Nervous habits.
Increase of self medication.
Neglect of family or work responsibilities.
Decline in performance or productivity?
Self harm.
What are some factors of mental illness? (Personal history)
Personal history:
Brain defects or injuries. Defects in or injuries to certain areas of the brain have been linked to some mental illnesses.
Prenatal damage: Birth and trauma in the womb.
What is body image?
The mental picture one has of his or her physical appearance and the association, attitudes and feelings towards it.
What is Anorexia?
Characterized by significant weight loss from excessive dieting. Motivated by a strong desire to be thin and the fear of becoming obese. Anorexics consider themselves to be fat no matter what their weight is.
What is Bulimia?
Characterized by a cycle of binge eating followed by purging to try and get rid of the body’s unwanted calories. Purging usually involves vomiting and laxatives. Excessive exercise, fasting, use of dite pills. 1 in 10 men are bulimic
What is overeating?
Characterized by uncontrollable eating and consequence weight gain. They use food as a way to deal with stress, and conflicts. Food can lock out negative feelings and emotions. They do recognize that they have a problem.
What is self-esteem?
Refers to the confidence you have. Having a greater appreciation and acceptance of yourself.
What is an ectomorph?
Visual having a lean, slightly circular body build.
What is an endomorph?
An individual having a body build characterized by the relative prominence of the abdomen and other soft parts of the body.
What’s a mesomorph?
An individual characterized by a robust muscular body build.
What are the three causes of eating disorders?
Society
Abuses
voices within.
What is Society’s cause of disorders?
Models that appear on the front cover of most fashion magazines. Influence of television actresses. Pressure from the Internet, Pressures from being liked.
What is Abuses’s cause of disorders?
Eating disorders help protect them. Repressed the memories. Numb their feelings, show control, and express feelings. Some believe if they are too thin or too fat the abuse will stop. If they die, abuse ends too…
What are voices within causes of disorders?
Most suffering from an eating disorder people hear voices in their heads. Voice convinces the victim that they’re worthless, unloveable, fat, ugly, disgusting, hopeless, etc……
What is the problem with athletes and eating disorders?
Many sports like gymnastics, figure skating, sumo wrestling, diving, and football all require you to change your diet. To perform better you need to be more skinny or weigh more. The determination that the athletes have led to eating disorders. Yeah know this cuz its good.