Mental Health: Public Health includes Healthy Minds Flashcards
What are 3 main statistics according to WHO?
- Mental illness accounts for more disability in developed countries
- 25% of adults in America have mental illness (2004)
- Half of Americans will develop a mental illness at least once in their lifetime
What are the trends of mental illness?
- Associated with CHRONIC diseases (CV, epilepsy, asthma, diabetes, cancer)
- More likely to develop injuries (both intentional and unintentional)
- Tend to use drug, abuse alcohol and tobacco
What are 2 main descriptions about anxiety?
Give examples
- physiological response to a dangerous situation so that you can prepare to evade or confront the threat
- anxiety experienced is disproportionated to the circumstance or intervene normal functioning
phobias, panic attack, generalized anxiety, OCD, PTSD
What is prevalence of anxiety disorder?
What anxiety disorder significant overlap with?
18% one year among adults
mood and substance abuse disorders
Who have higher rate of anxiety disorder?
female
What is the strong basis of panic disorder?
genetic basis
What are the treatments of anxiety disorder?
counseling, psychotherapy and pharmaceuticals
What is another type of anxiety that is common in veterans?
PTSD = post traumatic stress disorder
What cause them to have PTSD?
experienced traumatic events,
have nightmares,
feel stress and angry during the day
Describe 2 types of psychotherapies
- Prolonged exposure: help people confront their fear,
help them feel in a safe ways through mental imagery & writing - Cognitive processing: patient is asked to recount the traumatic experience & help them redirect negative thoughts
What is Psychosis?
the disorder of perception and thought
What are the symptoms of psychosis?
hallucination,
delusion,
paranoia
Definition of hallucination and delusion
hallucination: sensory impressions that have no basis in reality
delusion: false belief despite evidence to the contrary
What is psychosis associated with?
schizophrenia
How many % of population schizophrenia affects?
What are schizophrenia characterized?
What are symptoms?
What does onset generally occur?
Has strong degree of what?
What are the treatments?
1%
disruption of cognitive and emotion
affect languages, thought, perception
hallucination and delusion
young adults
genetic predisposition
antipsychotic meds,
psychotherapy,
family intervention program
What is the major cause of disability ?
mood disorder
What is mood disorder?
depression and bipolar disorder
What does 50% of people have diagnosis of major depression suffer?
anxiety
Who is more likely to have mood disorder?
women
What is the consequence of mood disorder?
suicide