What Is Mental Wellness? Flashcards
Negative emotional experience be accompanied by changes in what?
Biochemistry
Physiology
Cognition
Behavior
What is a stressor?
It’s a stressful event that leads to feeling stressed
Stressor -> Experience/perception->
Stressor -> Expierence/perception -> ?
Increased blood pressure
Increased heart rate
Sweating
Wakeful sleep
Less appetite
What is long time issues of stress?
Problems with Immune system
Depression
Anxiety
What is a starting point for comparison? Give an example.
A Baseline
Is there any change in my behaviour?
What are cognitive signs of stress?
Poor problem solving
Poor decision making or indecisiveness
Forgetfulness
Inattentiveness and/ or distractibilty
Loss of interest
What are physiological signs of stress?
Appetite change
Poor quality of sleep
Gastrointestinal issues
Reports of aches, pains and stiffness
Reports of headaches
What are Behavioral signs of stress?
Aggression (physical and/or verbal)
Lower patience and frustration threshold
Critical of others and/ or self
Physical agitation
Avoidance
Emotional signs of stress
Nervous and worried
Crying
Anger
Easily irritated and/or embarrassed
Emotional outbursts
What is Acute stress?
Stress that occurs daily
Get stuff done!!!!!
What is Chronic Stress?
Prolonged stress that impacts life events by straining our coping capacities
Debilitates our ability to act accordingly
What is good about Acute Stresses?
Helps us survive
Get us to complete our daily tasks
Helps us accomplish goals and challenges
Boosts memory effectiveness
Efficient heat functioning
How long does someone have chronic stress before being diagnosed with depression?
2 years
What is Mental Health?
Maintaining Successful mental activity
What is being maintained for successful mental activity?
Productive daily activities
Fulfilling relationships w/ others
Cope with stress
Adapting to stress
What are the known causes of mental illness?
Abnormal brain functioning
Brain Disorder
What aren’t the known causes?
Poor parenting
Personal weakness or defects in personality
Malevolent spiritual intent
Rarely caused by nutritional factors
Poverty
Rarely caused by stress alone
Many mental illnesses start during childhood and go into adolescence, what are some examples?
ADHD Attention deficit Hyperactivity disorder
ASD Autism Spectrum disorder
GAD General Anxiety Disorder
The illnesses that happen during adolescence can include:
Major Depression
Schizophrenia
Bipolar Disorder
Panic Disorder
Social Anxiety disorder
What do we know about people with Mental illness?
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
What should you not do when confronting someone about an eating disorder?
- Ultimatums
- Commenting on appearance or weight
- Shame and Blame
- Giving simple solutions
What is Bulimia?
Consuming large amounts of food followed by behaviors to prevent weight gain.
What are the effects of Bulimia?
- Electrolyte imbalance
- loss of potassium
- frequent vomiting
- tooth decay from frequent vomiting
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) What is It?
Consuming large amounts of food without behaviors to prevent weight gain.
What are the effects of Binge Eating Disorder?
Common with Clinical Obesity
High Blood pressure
High Cholesterol
not eating to the point of discomfort
What is Anorexia?
- Inadequate food intake
- intense exercise, obsession with weight gain
- Dramatic weight loss, Denial of hunger, withdrawal from friends and family.
What are the effects of Anorexia?
Slow heart rate
low blood pressure
reduction of bone density
muscle loss and weakness
What is a Eating Disorder?
A serious mental health disorder characterized by eating, exercise and body weight or shape.
Who can get an Eating Disorder?
Anyone
1 in 5 people
What is a personality disorder?
A way of thinking and feeling derived from culture. Which can cause distress or problems functioning and lasts over time.
“pattern of moods, self-image and behavior that result in impulsive actions”.
Borderline Personality Disorder
“Approval of others, want to be noticed, behave inappropriately for attention.”
Histrionic Personality Disorder
” Exaggerated sense of self importance, needs admiration”
Narcissi tic Personality Disorder
What Is Anxiety Disorder?
A group of mental disorders characterized by significant feelings of anxiety and fear.
What are some types of mood disorders?
- Major Depressive Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder or Manic Depression
- seasonal affective behaviour (SAD)/ persistent depressive disorder.
What is Schizophrenia?
occurs in people who interpret reality differently.
What does Schizophrenia look like? How can someone w/ it b helped?
Results in a combination of hallucinations, auditory and visual, delusions, and disorderly thinking.
Can be helped with medication, therapy and social support.
Anxiety = ? events Fear = ? events
Anxiety = future events Fear = Current event
What Should you do when confronting someone about an eating disorder?
Pick a good time
Explain why you are concerned
Be prepared
Be patient and supportive
How many adolescents have anxiety disorder?
31.9%
How many girls and women have Anorexia?
80%
How many people die of Anorexia?
5-20%
How many Bulimia patients are women?
80%
What are the possible causes of a Eating Disorder?
There are sociological and phycological risk factors like Self esteem, depression, anxiety and pop culture.
How many people have Binge Eating Disorder?
1-5% of the generalized population associated w/ symptoms of depression.
What percentage of people diagnosed with a mental health disorder also will have a substance disorder at some time in their lives? _______
30%
How many people who have an alcohol disorder have a mental health disorder at the same time? ______
37%
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? __________
53%
