Mental Illness

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Mental Illness

• Anxiety Disorders
• Personality Disorders
• Mood Disorders

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Anxiety Disorders

• A condition in which intense anxiety or fear
  keeps a person from functioning normally.

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General Anxiety Disorder

• Restlessness, tiredness, difficulty
  concentrating, irritability, muscle tension,
  sleep disturbance.

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Panic Disorder

• Pounding heart, sweating, trembling, shortness of
  breath, nausea, fear of losing control.

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Phobia

• Intense and exaggerated fear of a specific
  situation or object
• Examples fear of animals, heights, flying

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Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder

• Obsessions such as a need to perform behaviors
  over and over, compulsions such as hand washing,
  counting, arranging possessions

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

• Withdrawal or depression after a distressing
  experience such as physical abuse, natural
  disaster, accident, or witnessing violence.

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Personality Disorders

• A variety of psychological conditions that affect
  a persons ability to get along with others.

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Schizophrenia

• A severe mental disorder in which people lose
  contact with reality.
• They may have hallucinations(hearing or seeing
  things that are not really there)
• or delusions(a false belief strongly held in
  spite of invalidating evidence)

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Mood Disorders

• A disorder in which a person undergoes changes in
  mood that seem inappropriate or extreme.

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Bipolar Disorder(manic-depressive)

• Someone suffering from this disorder go from
  feeling upbeat and energetic to feeling down and
  tired for no apparent reason.

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Clinical Depression(major depression)

• A mood disorder in which people lose interest in
  life and can no longer find enjoyment in
  anything.

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Warning Signs of Clinical Depression

• Depressed Mood
• Lack of Energy
• Inability to Concentrate
• Withdrawal
• Change in Sleep Patterns

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Warning Signs Continued

• Feelings of Worthlessness
• Indifference
• Pessimism
• Irritability or Anger
• Thoughts of Suicide

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5 of teens, each year, experience clinical
depression

• A teen who has three or more of these symptoms
  for more than two weeks should be checked for
  clinical depression.

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