Mental Health Disorders

Question 1

Acquired brain injury (ABI)

Answer 1

Damage to brain tissue caused by disease, medical condition, accident, or violence

Question 2

Affect

Answer 2

Persons feelings emotions, and moods and the way the persons demonstrates them

Question 3

Affective Disorders

Answer 3

Mental health disorders involving feelings, emotions, and moods ( mood disorder )

Question 4

Amenorrhea

Answer 4

Absence of at least 3 consecutive menstrual periods

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Anxiety disorder

Answer 5

Mental health disorder, main symptom is anxiety

Question 6

Attention - deficit and disruptive behaviour disorder

Answer 6

Behavioural disorders, clients have chronic difficulties in maintaining focusing and completing their work, repeatedly engaging in disruptive behaviours

Question 7

Attention- deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHA)

Answer 7

Causes inappropriate levels of inattention, hyperactivity impulse behaviour

Question 8

Binge

Answer 8

When an individual eats a larger amount of food; not response to hunger but to depression, stress

Question 9

Binge eating

Answer 9

Persons has periods of uncontrolled, impulsive, continuous eating

Question 10

Bipolar affective disorder

Answer 10

Illness that has periods of serious depression followed by episodes of mania with irritable moods and behaviour

Question 11

Delusion

Answer 11

Fixed, false, belief that is not based on reality

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Delusions of grandeur

Answer 12

False and exaggerated beliefs about ones importance talent and wealth

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Delusion of persecution

Answer 13

False beliefs that one is being mistreated, a used, or harassed

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Eating disorders

Answer 14

Altered body image perception that leads to disturbance in eating behaviours and abnormal concern with body weight and shape

Question 15

Hallucination

Answer 15

Seeing, smelling, hearing, tasting, or feeling something that is not real

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Major depression

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State of mind where a person has sever feelings of worthless, self blame, sadness, that lasts for 2 weeks and interfere with daily living

Question 17

Mood disorders

Answer 17

Involves feeling, emotions, and moods that become troubling and difficult to manage on their own

Question 18

Panic

Answer 18

Intense and sudden feeling of fear, anxiety, terror, or dread for no obvious reason

Question 19

Paranoia

Answer 19

Extreme suspicion about a persons or a situation.

Question 20

Personality disorders

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Group of disorders involving rigid and socially unacceptable behaviours

Question 21

Pica

Answer 21

Eating disorder defined as persistently eating something without nutritional value for a period of at least a month

Question 22

Psychosis

Answer 22

Mental state in which perception of reality is impaired

Question 23

Reactive depression

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Term used by health care professionals to describe normal reactions such as feelings of loss and sadness to what a person just experienced

Question 24

Repression

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Keeping unpleasant or painful thoughts from the conscious mind

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Schizophrenia

Answer 25

Delusions, hallucinations disturbance in thinking and withdrawals from social activity
- biochemical imbalance

Question 26

Seasonal affective disorder

Answer 26

Depression that occurs each year at the same time each year

Question 27

Stigma

Answer 27

Shame or social disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality or person

Question 28

How long does it take for anti depressants to work?

Answer 28

3-6 weeks

Keep a watch on them

Question 29

Anorexia Nervosa

Answer 29

When a person has an intense fear of weight gain

• avoid food
• vomiting
• abuse laxatives
• intense exercise

Question 30

Bulimia

Answer 30

Mainly in teenagers

• binge eating
• vomiting
• purge
• rotten teeth from puking

Question 31

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

Answer 31

Perfectionism and inflexibility
Obsession- persistent thought
Compulsion - uncontrolled urge to perform an act

Question 32

Signs and symptoms of depression

Answer 32

Fatigue 
Feeling of useless
Anxiety 
Thoughts of death 
Loss of appetite 
Difficulty with ADL's