Health
(Mental Health Awareness)
Ms. Norris
Fresh Health 2015
Safe – TALK (suicide and depression)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6s34A38F
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Mental Health/Mental Disorders
• What is a mental disorder?
▫ A behavioral or physiological syndrome or
pattern that occurs in an individual and
that is associated with distress or disability
or with a significantly increased risk of
suffering, death, pain, disability, or an
important loss of freedom.
Schizophrenia
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv0b1unxUpM
• What is schizophrenia?
▫ A disorder where there is a breakdown in
logical thought processes.
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Creates unusual behaviors
Hallucinations
Delusions
Distorted perception of reality
Actions, words, and emotions are confused
and usually are inappropriate
▫ NOT curable but can be treated with
medication
GAD – Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• A Chronic or Long lasting state of anxiety, fear, and
tenseness.
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Anxious even when there is nothing to worry about
Fatigue
Headaches
Muscle tension
Muscle aches
Difficulty swallowing
Trembling
Irritability
Sweating
Increased heart rate
Hot flashes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbY4HG4Uod4
OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• A disorder in which a person has persistent,
unwelcome thoughts or images and engages in
certain rituals.
▫ The disturbing thoughts are called obsessions
▫ Trying to prevent them is called compulsions
▫ The rituals relieve anxiety temporarily but they do
not cause pleasure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP4W8150aZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLo_JkcSGyw
Panic Attacks
• A disorder in which feelings of terror strike
suddenly and repeatedly with no warning.
▫ Accompanied by panic attacks
 A period of intense fear followed by bodily changes.
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Increased heart rate
Weakness
Faintness
Dizziness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuI-8uKqN-k
PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• A disorder in which aftereffects of a terrifying even
keep a person from living in a normal way.
• People with have….
▫ Frightening thoughts and memories of an event
 Nightmares and disturbing thoughts during day
 Emotionally numb
• Can occur from many types of events such as
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War
Abuse/Domestic Violence
Natural Disasters
Witness to an accident or trauma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipYX3vgi1eo
Eating Disorders
• A mental disorder in which a person has a compelling
need to starve, binge, or to binge and purge.
▫ To Binge
 Eat large amounts of food over a period of time
▫ To Purge
 Throw it up or to use laxatives or diuretics
• More at risk for depression, anxiety and substance
abuse.
• Types
▫ Anorexia Nervosa
▫ Bulimia
▫ Binge Eating Disorder
Anorexia
• An eating disorder in which a
person starves his or her body
and weighs 15% or more below
the healthful weight for
his/her age and gender.
▫ Distorted body image
▫ See themselves as being
overweight
▫ Exercise extremes
▫ Use of laxative, diuretics,
vomiting
Bulimia
• Eating disorder in
which a person
binges and then
purges.
▫ Binge foods or eat
large quantities of
food.
▫ Purge (aka throw up)
or use of laxatives
and diuretics.
“Dying to be Thin”
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-J4-Wcncbg
Mood Disorders
• A mental disorder involving moods that are
extreme.
• Also called an Affective disorder
• Types
▫ Clinical depression
▫ Bipolar disorder
▫ Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Clinical Depression
• Long lasting feelings of hopelessness, sadness, or
helplessness.
• Clinical Depression is not caused by some sort of trauma.
• General symptoms
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Deep sadness
Apathy (lack of interest, enthusiasm or concern)
Fatigue
Agitation
Sleep disturbances
Weight or appetite changes
Lack of concentration
Feelings of worthlessness
Morbid thoughts
Bipolar Disorder
• A persons moods very from extreme happiness
to extreme depression.
• Manic Phase
▫ Great joy for no reason, very talkative and restless.
• Depressive Phase
▫ Passive mood, little energy, may think of suicide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdYc-CAMeEY