MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS

Question 1

What is bipolar disorder?

Answer 1

a mood disorder that involves fluctuations from depressive lows to manic highs

Question 2

what are some symptoms of mania?

Answer 2

increased activity 
decreased need for sleep 
risky behaviour-drugs, sex, investments 
increased self esteem 
flight of ideas
distractability 
increase in goal directed activity

Question 3

what are some symptoms of depression?

Answer 3

depressed mood
negative thoughts 
agitation 
feeling slowed
fatigue
significant weight changes
sleep alterations 
social withdrawl 
loss of interest

Question 4

what are some causation theories of mental health disorders?

Answer 4

• genetics
• trauma
• stress
• lack of resilience
• for depression = low levels of serotonin in the brain
• for psychosis= high levels of dopamine in brain

Question 5

what is schizophrenia?

Answer 5

disorder that involves both positive and negative symptoms.

positive sympyoms + such as delusions, halluciantions, movement disorders, disorganised thought and cognition.
negative symptoms - such as blunt affect, poverty of speech/thought, social withdrawl, facial expressions

Question 6

what is psychosis?

Answer 6

when a person is unable to distinguish b/w what is real and what is not. might experience delusions, hallucinations, disorganised thoughts/ behaviour

Question 7

name some different types of delusions.

Answer 7

controlling
persecutory 
referential delusions 
religious delusions
grandiose delusions

Question 8

what is an intellectual disability?

Answer 8

a person who has an IQ of less than 70.

• concurrent defects/impairment in adaptive functioning (communication, self care, reading, work leisure)
• apparent prior to 18 years old