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Mental IllnessBy: Kassy Pelletier

+What is mental Illness/ Health

Mental Illness- medical conditions that disrupt the a persons thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning

Mental Health- how you think, feel, and behave and how you deal with everyday ups and downs in your life.

+Types of mental illnesses

Depression/suicide

Schizophrenia

Addiction

Eating disorders

Anxiety/ Phobias

ADD/ADHD

+Depression/Suicide

Symptoms:1. Fatigue/ loss of energy

2. Feelings of worthlessness

3. Reoccurring thoughts about death

4. Noticeable weight loss or gain

5. Agitation

6. Restlessness

7. irritability

+Depression/Suicide

Causes:1. Genetics

people with depression feel like the can’t…1. Stop the pain

2. Think clearly

3. Sleep, eat, or work

+Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a chronic severe brain disability.

symptoms:1. Hallucinations

2. Delusions

3. Little speaking

Causes:1. Brain structure

2. Environment

+Addiction

Symptoms:1. Built up substance tolerance

2. Stopped doing things you enjoy

3. Lost control over addiction

Causes:1. Addiction in family history

2. Traumatic events in lifetime

3. Mental disorder

Treatment:1. therapy

+Addiction: The Brain

The brain is divided into 3 different parts; the central part is where the reward pathway lies.

The reward pathway drives our feelings of motivation, reward, and behavior.

The reward pathway is connected to other brain parts that gather information about what is happening to make you feel good.

Your 5 senses send signs to your brain to let you know that there is something you want in front of you.

In another part of your brain is the memory that your substance, drugs, alcohol, gambling etc., made you feel good so it tells you to do it again

When you do something that makes you happy dopamine is released, dopamine is the jolt pleasure you feel when you're happy.

+Addiction: the brain

The reward pathway also makes sure you do the thing that makes you feel good again and again.

This is done by connecting the memory and behavior regions of the brain.

When the memory and behavior regions of the brain are connected it increases the likely good that you’ll do it again,

When you receive the dopamine, the reward pathway ensures you’ll repeat this behavior again to be happy in life.

+Eating disorders: Anorexia

Anorexia is when you eat very little amounts of very low calorie foods.

Symptoms:1. Very low body weight

2. Dry Skin

3. Fainting

4. Eating very little

+Eating disorders: Bulimia

When you eat large amounts of food and then purging.

Symptoms:

1. Stomach pain

2. Sore throat

3. Chronic heartburn

4. Swollen neck glands

Medical consequences:

1. Damage to teeth, esophagus, stomach, lungs, heart, and

kidneys.

How they feel:

1. Low self-esteem

2. Scared of being overweight but scared to keep eating

3. Guilty for eating

+Eating disorders: Binging

Binging is eating mass amounts of food in a short period of time

Symptoms: 1. Overweight/ Obese

How they feel:1. Out of control

2. Guilty after binging

Medical consequences:1. Obesity

2. At greater risk of a stroke, hyperglycemia, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, gall stones, gallbladder disease.

+Anxiety/ Phobias

Anxiety- how people react to a tense situation

Anxiety disorders cause you to have panic attacks in tense situations

Panic attacks- shaking out of fear

Causes-

1. Can be inherited

2. Environment

Symptoms of a panic

attack:1. Discomfort

2. Nausea

3. Sweating

4. Trembling

5. Difficulty breathing

6. Chills/ hot flashes

7. Choking

Treatment: talk to a therapist or medicine

+Different Anxiety disorders

OCD-obsessive compulsive disorder- obsessing over doing one thing compulsively.

PTSD- posttraumatic stress disorder- fear from a traumatic experience such as being in war or being abused

Generalized anxiety disorder- fear that’s hard to maintain, happens usually over a 6 month period.

+Phobias

There's two types of phobias1. Situational-fear of a situation. • example: tunnel, bridge, plane

2. Environmental- fear of the outside world. • Example: storms, body of water

Treatment: 1. Medicine

2. Therapy

+Types of phobias

Aquaphobia- fear of water

Xenophobia- fear of strangers

Acrophobia- fear of heights

+ADD/ADHD ADD- Attention deficit disorder

ADHD- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Symptoms:

1. Doesn’t pay attention to details

2. Makes careless mistakes

3. Acts without thinking

4. Easily distracted

Causes:• Not exactly known what the causes it but genes play a

role in the developing the conditions.

Treatment:

1. Medicine

2. Therapy

+Work cited

Nadelson, Carol C., ed. Understanding Anxiety Disorders. Uneasy Lives ed. N.p.: Chelsea House, 2000. N. pag. Print.

Favor, Lesli J. Food as Foe. nutrition and eating disorders ed. Tarry Town: Bench Mark books, 2008. N. pag. Print.

Andrews, Linda, Sheilla Avey, Brendan Nicholson, Kevin Pompei, and Harmony Starr. "The New science of addiction." Learn.Genetics. Nation Institute on drug abuse, 2003. Web. 19 Sept. 2013. <http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/>.