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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.
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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a chronic severe brain disability.
symptoms:
1.
2.
Delusions
3.
Hallucinations
Little speaking
Causes:
1.
Brain structure
2.
Environment
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Addiction
Symptoms:
1.
2.
Stopped doing things you enjoy
3.
Built up substance tolerance
Lost control over addiction
Causes:
1.
2.
Traumatic events in lifetime
3.
Addiction in family history
Mental disorder
Treatment:
1.
therapy
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Eating disorders: Binging
Binging is eating mass amounts of food in a short period of
time
Symptoms:
1.
Overweight/ Obese
How they feel:
1.
2.
Out of control
Guilty after binging
Medical consequences:
1.
Obesity
2.
At greater risk of a stroke, hyperglycemia, high blood pressure,
high cholesterol, gall stones, gallbladder disease.
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Anxiety/ Phobias
Anxiety- how people react to a
tense situation
attack:
Anxiety disorders cause you to
have panic attacks in tense
situations
Panic attacks- shaking out of
fear
Causes1. Can be inherited
2. Environment
Symptoms of a panic
Discomfort
2.
Nausea
3.
Sweating
4.
Trembling
5.
1.
Difficulty breathing
6.
Chills/ hot flashes
7.
Choking
Treatment:
talk to a
therapist or medicine
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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.
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Phobias
There's two types of phobias
Situational-fear of a situation.
1.
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Environmental- fear of the outside world.
2.
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example: tunnel, bridge, plane
Example: storms, body of water
Treatment:
1.
Medicine
2.
Therapy
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ADD/ADHD
ADD- Attention deficit disorder
ADHD- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Symptoms:
1.
2.
Makes careless mistakes
3.
Acts without thinking
4.
Doesn’t pay attention to details
Easily distracted
Causes:
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Not exactly known what the causes it but genes play a role in
the developing the conditions.
Treatment:
1.
Medicine
2.
Therapy
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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/>.