Mental Disorders

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Mental Disorders

• An illness of the mind that can affect the
  thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person. It
  can prevent them from leading a healthy life.

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Personality Disorders

• Personality Party Activity

Paranoid Schizoid Sociopath Borderline Schizotypal
Histrionic Narcissistic Compulsive Passive-Aggress
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Anxiety Disorder

• A condition in which real or imagined fears are
  difficult to control.

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Examples of Anxiety Disorders

• Phobia
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Panic Disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Phobia-

• a strong irrational fear of something specific.
• Arachnophobia-fear of spiders
• Claustrophobia-fear of being closed in
• Disposophobia-fear of getting rid of things
• Aka hoarding

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder-

• persistent thoughts, fears, or urges that lead
  you to engage in repetitive behaviors.

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Panic Disorder

• Caused by episodes of irrational fear and panic
  called panic attacks.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

• A condition that may develop after exposure to a
  terrifying event.
• Symptoms include flashbacks, nightmares,
  sleeplessness.

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General Anxiety

• Chronic and exaggerated worry and tension even
  though nothing seems to provoke it always
  anticipating disaster excessive worry about
  health, money, family, or work.

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Eating Disorders

• Bulimia
• People with bulimia consume large amounts of food
  and then rid their bodies of the excess calories
  by purging (self-induced vomiting, misuse of
  laxatives or diuretics).

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Eating Disorders

• Anorexia
• People have a distorted sense of body image that
  leads to self-starvation to the point of death.

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Mood Disorders

• An illness that involves mood extremes that
  interfere with everyday living.
• Bipolar (manic-depressive)- involves cycles of
  alternating mania and depressive symptoms.

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Mood Disorders

• Depression-when symptoms of mild depression
  persist to clinical depression

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Schizophrenia

• A chronic, severe, disabling brain disorder
  people hear things other people dont hear, think
  people are reading their minds, controlling their
  thoughts. People are fearful, withdrawn, and can
  be extremely agitated.