Mental Health Unit Test Flashcards
What are the symptoms of stress?
Physical: Aches and pains, chest pain or a feeling like your heart is racing, exhaustion or trouble sleeping, headaches, shaking.
Emotions: Anxiety or irritability, depression, panic attacks, and sadness.
Behavioral: Eating too much or too little, sleeping too much or too little, using drugs, smoking, using alcohol, emotional outbursts, and relationship issues.
Why does stigma exist?
Fear of the unknown or the different, unease or discomfort with visible conditions, association with negative stereotypes or prejudices, values and beliefs that judge or discriminate, use of inappropriate pictures or language that dehumanize or ridicule, careless utterances by health professionals that label or stigmatize.
What impacts have social media had on teen mental health since 2009?
Teens cutting themselves/self-harm, suicide, and depression.
Who or what is the product?
It’s you or us.
What is snapchat dysmorphia?
Getting surgery to liik like a filter
What is positive intermittent reinforcement?
a conditioning schedule in which a reward or punishment (reinforcement) is not administered every time the desired response is performed.
what is depression
a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. It affects how you feel, think, behave, and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and sometimes you may feel as if life isn’t worth living.
depression symptoms
sadness
hopelessness
loss of pleasure in activities
irritability
tiredness
appetite changes
thoughts of death or suicide
who is susceptible to depression
Women are more likely to have depression than men. An estimated 3.8% of the population experience depression. Including 5% of adults, 4% among men, 6% among women, and 5.7% of adults older than 60 years.
Approximately 280 million people in the world have depression.
how depression is diagnosed
Depression is often diagnosed through a combination of lab tests and simply talking to a patient.
To effectively diagnose and treat depression, the doctor must hear about specific symptoms of depression. They may use a series of standard questions to screen for depression.
how is depression treated
anti-depressants, talk therapy and psychotherapy, shock therapy, or a being admitted to a psych ward.