Mental Health

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Mental Health

• Grade 10 Health
• Mr. Hager

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What is Mental Health?

• Mental Health-Having a _____outlook, being
  comfortable with yourself and others, and being
  able to meet lifes challenges and demands.
• Adaptation to_______________________

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Maslows Hierarchy of Needs

• Physical
• ________
• Aesthetic
• ________
• The lack of one or more of these needs could lead
  to poor mental health.

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Physical Needs

• Need to satisfy hunger, thirst, sleep, etc.
• _______________________________

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Emotional needs

• _________________________________________________
• Need to ______ and to be recognized.

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Aesthetic Needs

• Aesthetic means________
• It is the need to know, to explore, and to
  understand.

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Self-Fulfilling

• Need for self-actualization.
• Striving to be the best that you can be.
• __________________________________________________
  ____________________

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Emotions

• Signals that tell your mind and body how to
  react.
• -Love
• -Empathy
• -Fear
• -Anger
• -Guilt

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Coping with Stress
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Stress

• A ________ or _______ disruptive or upsetting
  condition occurring in response to
  __________________ and capable of affecting
  physical health, usually characterized
  by__________, _________, ________, _______, and
  depression.

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Stress

• Distress-
• Eustress-

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What does it take???

• Stress researchers believe that people who choose
  a ______, get plenty of ____, and exercise
  regularly are better able to cope with stress.
• Be sure to identify your personality type.
• Two types of personalityType __ and Type ___.

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Personality

• Complex set of characteristics that make you
  unique and distinguishes you from everyone else.
• Modeling-
• Make sure that only positive behaviors are
  modeled after.

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Personality

• Before we were even born our personalities had
  begun taking shape through _________.
• After ______ our personality is formed through
  ________ and behavior.

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Type A Personality

• Are more competitive, rushed and time oriented.
• Ask yourself Do I get anxious when waiting in
  line at the store? (Counting items of other
  people when a the express line?)

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Type B Personality

• Are more flexible and less rushed. (It really
  would not bother you if your plans werent
  accomplished for the day.)
• Neither Type A or Type B re better than the
  other.
• Both are a matter of _______________.
• Being aware of your personality type can help
  eliminate some stress in your life.

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Time Managment

• Effective ways of arranging your time.
• There are good ways and bad ways of managing your
  time.
• Make the choices that help you do the tasks you
  must do in order to achieve your goals.
• Mange your own life.

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Defense Mechanisms

• These are strategies to deal with stressful
  situations.
• DENIAL ______________________.
• Escape or Fantasy ________________ dreams,
  books, and excessive sleep.
• Rationalization An attempt to justify ones
  actions with an excuse rather than by admitting
  ones failure, guilt, or mistake.

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Defense Mechanisms (Cont.)

• PROJECTION _____________________
• REPRESSION ____________________
• IDENTIFICATION - Acting like or modeling ones
  behavior after a person one likes or looks up to.

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Defense Mechanisms

• DISPLACEMENT Expressing feelings toward someone
  or something not associated with the source of
  the feelings.
• Regression _______________________
• COMPENSATION _________________

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Defense Mechanisms (Cont.)

• SUBLIMATION

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Mental Disorders
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What is a Mental Illness?

• Mental Illness- ______________________

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Types of Disorders

• Phobia- an unreasonable fear
• Obsession- _______________________
• Compulsion- ______________________

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Types (Cont.)

• Hypochondria-
• Schizophrenia- meaning split mind, the most
  serious illness characterized by paranoia.
• Depression-

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Types (Cont.)

• Manic (bipolar) depression-

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Psychiatrist

• Deals with mental, emotional, and behavioral
  disorders of the mind.
• _____________________________.
• Types of therapy psychoanalysis, psychotherapy,
  medical therapy, electroconvulsive.

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Psychologist

• Specializes in the study of abnormal human
  behavior in the clinical setting
• ____________________________.

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5 stages of loss

• Denial-
• Anger-
• Bargaining-
• Grief-
• Resolution-

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Teen Suicide

• A Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem

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Teen Suicide

• Each year 500,000 attempts with 5,000 succeeding.
• Incidence has tripled in the last 20 years.
• 3rd leading cause of death for ages 15-24
• 4 males for every female commit suicide

• Females attempt 4-8 times as frequently as males.
• 2 of 3 suicides involve alcohol or drugs.
• ½ of ll teen suicide have a close relative who
  has committed suicide.

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Reasons for increase in suicide

• Break up of the nuclear family.
• ______________________.
• Increase in geographic mobility.
• _______________________________.
• ____________________________.

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Feelings prior to Attempts

• ___________
• ___________
• ___________
• ___________

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Precipitating Factors

• Loss of a loved one parent, friend, boyfriend
  or girlfriend.
• Lack of stable family life divorce, parental
  conflicts, alcohol. or drugs.
• _________________________

• Poor communication about unhappiness, fears of
  failure, etc.
• ________________________.
• Major embarrassment - real or imagined
• ___________.

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Warning Signs

• Suicidal threats or talking about death and/or
  suicide.
• __________________________.
• ____________________.
• _____________________.
• Giving away treasured personal belongings.
• ___________________.