What Is Mental Wellness? Flashcards

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Negative emotional experience be accompanied by changes in what?

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Biochemistry

Physiology

Cognition

Behavior

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What is a stressor?

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It’s a stressful event that leads to feeling stressed

Stressor -> Experience/perception->

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Stressor -> Expierence/perception -> ?

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Increased blood pressure

Increased heart rate

Sweating

Wakeful sleep

Less appetite

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4
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What is long time issues of stress?

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Problems with Immune system

Depression

Anxiety

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5
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What is a starting point for comparison? Give an example.

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A Baseline

Is there any change in my behaviour?

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What are cognitive signs of stress?

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Poor problem solving

Poor decision making or indecisiveness

Forgetfulness

Inattentiveness and/ or distractibilty

Loss of interest

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What are physiological signs of stress?

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Appetite change

Poor quality of sleep

Gastrointestinal issues

Reports of aches, pains and stiffness

Reports of headaches

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What are Behavioral signs of stress?

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Aggression (physical and/or verbal)

Lower patience and frustration threshold

Critical of others and/ or self

Physical agitation

Avoidance

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Emotional signs of stress

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Nervous and worried

Crying

Anger

Easily irritated and/or embarrassed

Emotional outbursts

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10
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What is Acute stress?

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Stress that occurs daily

Get stuff done!!!!!

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What is Chronic Stress?

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Prolonged stress that impacts life events by straining our coping capacities

Debilitates our ability to act accordingly

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12
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What is good about Acute Stresses?

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Helps us survive

Get us to complete our daily tasks

Helps us accomplish goals and challenges

Boosts memory effectiveness

Efficient heat functioning

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13
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How long does someone have chronic stress before being diagnosed with depression?

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2 years

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14
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What is Mental Health?

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Maintaining Successful mental activity

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15
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What is being maintained for successful mental activity?

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Productive daily activities

Fulfilling relationships w/ others

Cope with stress

Adapting to stress

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16
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What are the known causes of mental illness?

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Abnormal brain functioning

Brain Disorder

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17
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What aren’t the known causes?

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Poor parenting

Personal weakness or defects in personality

Malevolent spiritual intent

Rarely caused by nutritional factors

Poverty

Rarely caused by stress alone

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18
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Many mental illnesses start during childhood and go into adolescence, what are some examples?

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ADHD Attention deficit Hyperactivity disorder

ASD Autism Spectrum disorder

GAD General Anxiety Disorder

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19
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The illnesses that happen during adolescence can include:

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Major Depression

Schizophrenia

Bipolar Disorder

Panic Disorder

Social Anxiety disorder

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20
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What do we know about people with Mental illness?

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Most have positive lives while getting treated.

Some have severe and persistent mental disorders that respond poorly to treatments.

Could happen to anyone

Many people have someone who they know who has or had a mental disorder

21
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What should you not do when confronting someone about an eating disorder?

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  • Ultimatums
  • Commenting on appearance or weight
  • Shame and Blame
  • Giving simple solutions
22
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What is Bulimia?

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Consuming large amounts of food followed by behaviors to prevent weight gain.

23
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What are the effects of Bulimia?

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  • Electrolyte imbalance
  • loss of potassium
  • frequent vomiting
  • tooth decay from frequent vomiting
24
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Binge Eating Disorder (BED) What is It?

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Consuming large amounts of food without behaviors to prevent weight gain.

25
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What are the effects of Binge Eating Disorder?

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Common with Clinical Obesity
High Blood pressure
High Cholesterol
not eating to the point of discomfort

26
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What is Anorexia?

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  • Inadequate food intake
  • intense exercise, obsession with weight gain
  • Dramatic weight loss, Denial of hunger, withdrawal from friends and family.
27
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What are the effects of Anorexia?

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Slow heart rate
low blood pressure
reduction of bone density
muscle loss and weakness

28
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What is a Eating Disorder?

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A serious mental health disorder characterized by eating, exercise and body weight or shape.

29
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Who can get an Eating Disorder?

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Anyone

1 in 5 people

30
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What is a personality disorder?

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A way of thinking and feeling derived from culture. Which can cause distress or problems functioning and lasts over time.

31
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“pattern of moods, self-image and behavior that result in impulsive actions”.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

32
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“Approval of others, want to be noticed, behave inappropriately for attention.”

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

33
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” Exaggerated sense of self importance, needs admiration”

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Narcissi tic Personality Disorder

34
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What Is Anxiety Disorder?

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A group of mental disorders characterized by significant feelings of anxiety and fear.

35
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What are some types of mood disorders?

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  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Bipolar Disorder or Manic Depression
  • seasonal affective behaviour (SAD)/ persistent depressive disorder.
36
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What is Schizophrenia?

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occurs in people who interpret reality differently.

37
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What does Schizophrenia look like? How can someone w/ it b helped?

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Results in a combination of hallucinations, auditory and visual, delusions, and disorderly thinking.

Can be helped with medication, therapy and social support.

38
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Anxiety = ? events
Fear = ? events
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Anxiety = future events
Fear = Current event
39
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What Should you do when confronting someone about an eating disorder?

A

Pick a good time
Explain why you are concerned
Be prepared
Be patient and supportive

40
Q

How many adolescents have anxiety disorder?

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31.9%

41
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How many girls and women have Anorexia?

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80%

42
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How many people die of Anorexia?

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5-20%

43
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How many Bulimia patients are women?

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80%

44
Q

What are the possible causes of a Eating Disorder?

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There are sociological and phycological risk factors like Self esteem, depression, anxiety and pop culture.

45
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How many people have Binge Eating Disorder?

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1-5% of the generalized population associated w/ symptoms of depression.

46
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What percentage of people diagnosed with a mental health disorder also will have a substance disorder at some time in their lives? _______

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30%

47
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How many people who have an alcohol disorder have a mental health disorder at the same time? ______

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37%

48
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What percentage of people diagnosed with a substance abuse disorder (other than alcohol) will have a mental health disorder at some time in their lives? __________

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53%