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MENTAL DISORDERS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a mental disorder? | An illiness that affects the mid and reduces a person's ablity to function, ajust to change, and to get along with others |
| How canyou reconize mental disorders? | -Seeing abormal thoughts/behaviors/feelings |
| What is an example of a mental disorder? | -Attention-deficit Disorder -Hyperactivity Disorder |
| Not being able to pay attention to details, being distracted easily, and making careless mistakes are examples of what? | -being attention deficit |
| Interupting others, impaitiance, and being fidgety atr all examples of what? | -Hyperactivity |
| What are 3 factors that CAN cause a mental disorder? | -heredity -early experiences -recent experiences |
| Physical factors may do what to the brain ,which may cause mental disorders? | -Damage |
| Inheriting a tendancy is called what? | -Heredity |
| Recent experiences are more likely to trigger a mental disorder than what? | -Recent experiences |
| You may have an axiety disorder if what? | -You persist with anxiety for a long time and have daily interferences. |
| What are 2 types of Anxiety Disorders? | poissible answers: -Generalized Anxiety Disorder -Phobias -Panic Attacks -OCD -Post Traumatic Stress |
| What is Aniety caused by? | -A fear whcih you cannot reconize. |
| What is Arachnophobia? | -fear of spiders |
| What is Claustrophobia? | -fear of small spaces |
| What are 5 five symptoms someone experiences during a panic attack? | Possible answers: -fast heart rate -rapid breathing -fear of deth -sweating -nausea -choking -chest pain |
| What does the abbreviation "OCD" STAND FOR? | -Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
| Explain OCD. | - a compulsive disorder that leads the brain to believe it needs to behave a certain wayto prevent a feared outcome. |
| List 3 symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress. | -Flashbacks -nightmares -inability to sleep |
| Someone who survives a life threatening event may delvelop what? | -Post-Traumatic Stress |
| People who have mood disorders experience what? | -Extreme emotions which make it difficult to funation in daily lives. |
| An extremely sad and hoeless feeling occurs in people who have what disorders? | -Depression |
| What is Schizophrenia? | -a mental disorder in which the thinking, mood, aweareness, and behavior has serious disturbances. |
| Kleptomainia, gambling, and uncontroled shopping are examples of what kind of mental disorder? | -Impulse-Control Disorder |
| People with personality disoraders find it difficult to do what? | -get along with others |
| People With clinical Depression may feel sad and hopeless for how long? | -months |
| What are 2 signs of clinical depression? | possible answers: -weight loss/gain -tried -sluggish/ frantic -strange sleeping patterns -suicide thoughts |
| How can depression be treated? | -medicatioin |
| The first step to recovery is always what? | -looking for help |
| List 2 Metal Health Professionals.(names of jobs) | -Psychaiatrists -Clinical psychologists -social workers -conselors |
| What is a Psychaiatrists? | -a physican who is lisinced to diagnose and treat mental disorders |
| What is a neurologist's job? | -to treat disorders in the nervous system |
| Clinical psychologists are trained to look for what? | -reconize and treat what is not normal |
| Social workers help paitients and their families to do what? | -accept and adjust to an illiness |
| Psychotherapy, Drug therapy, and hospitalization are methods used to treat what? | -Mental disorders |
| Explain what Psychotherapy is. | -when a person talks with a therapist to help over come an illiness. |
| Why is Group Therapy used? | -to help people meet with others who share simular disorders. |
| What is Drug therapy? | -when doctors prescibe durgs to treat a metal disorder |
| Why is Hospitalization used? | -to keep constant supervision on people whom may other wise be a treat to others. |
| People with Impulse-Control Disorder, cannot resist the feeling to do what? | -act in a harmful/violent way |
| What do people in Group A tend to be like? | -cold and distant |
| What do people in Group B tend to be like? | -overly emotional or unstable |
| What do people in Group C tend to be like? | -unable to make decisoins |
| What is the purpose of insught therapy? | -to help people understand the reasons of their behavior |
| Mental health professionals can help do what for a mental disorder paitient? | -Hlep fin tratment |
| Is it important to find help to recover from a disorder? Explain. | Yes, otherwise there is no way to heal. |
| Where does a mental disordaer effect the body? | -In the brain. |
| How many types of anxiety disorders are there? | -fvie |
| Can drepression be deadly? | -Yes, if left un treated. |
| Where can drepression symptoms occur? | -Everywhere |
| If told "With will pwer alone, you can over come it", mental disorder victiums may not know hwere to look for what? | -help |
| What are early experiences? | -extremly negative experiences that occur ealry in life |
| People with phobias can have a fear of strange things. List a few. | Possible answers:places, flying, germs, people, animals, food, objects. |
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