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Mental Disorders
Ch.4
Section 1
Warm-Up Activity
Which of the following statements are always
true? Sometimes true? Always false?
1.
It is easy to identify a person with a
mental disorder.
2.
Mental disorders are causes by emotional
problems.
3.
Mental disorders affect a person’s ability to
function.
4.
People who have a mental disorder are
dangerous.
Objectives and Vocabulary
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Explain how mental disorders are
recognized.
Identify four causes of mental disorders.
Describe five types of anxiety disorders and
four other types of mental disorders.
Vocabulary:
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Mental disorder
Anxiety
Anxiety disorder
Phobia
Obsession
-compulsion
-mood disorder
-depression
-schizophrenia
-personality disorder
What are Mental Disorders?
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An illness that affects the mind and
reduces a person’s ability to
function, to adjust to change, or to
get along with others.
For example:___________
Recognizing Mental Disorders
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Mental health experts ______
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ADHD-symptoms/discuss
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How would having ADHD affect
someone’s ability to study?
Causes of Mental Disorders
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Sometimes has a single cause.
More often a combination of factors
are involved.
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Physical Factors
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Damage to the brain.
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Could be caused by a growth, or tumor,
an injury or infection that destroys brain
cells.
Exposure to poison.
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Heredity
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May inherit a tendency toward a
mental disorder.
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Doesn’t mean the person will have the
disorder.
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Early Experiences
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Extremely negative experiences that
occur early in life can lead to mental
illness.
Who can give me an example?
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Recent Experiences
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Some mental health experts think that
recent experiences are more likely
than early experience to trigger a
mental disorder.
Who can give me an example?
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Anxiety Disorders
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Anxiety: ________________
Everyone experiences anxiety now and
then.
When do you experience anxiety?
Feelings are normal and usually short
lived.
When the anxiety persists for a long
time and interferes with daily living,
this is a sign of an anxiety disorder.
Examples of anxiety disorders
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Generalized anxiety disorder
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Panic attacks
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Post traumatic stress disorder
Warning!
Now we will begin talking further in
depth with each mental disorder….
Please do not self-diagnose yourself!
Or run home and tell your parents
you have a funky disorder.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Thoughts and emotions do not have a
single source.
Many of the warning signs of stress
can also be signs of this disorder,
including restlessness, fatigue, trouble
falling asleep, and trouble
concentrating.
Phobias
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Anxiety that is related to a specific
situation or object is called a
phobia.
Do you have a phobia that you are
aware of?
If so, how do you deal with your
phobia?
Panic Attacks
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During an attack, a person will
experience some of the following
symptoms.
Fast heart rate/breathing
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Sweating
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Nausea/dizzy
Fear of losing control
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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An unwanted thought or image that
takes control of the mind is an
obsession.
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A compulsion is an unreasonable
need to behave in a certain way to
prevent a feared outcome.
Who can give an example of OCD?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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May have flashbacks or nightmares that
produce intense fear or horror.
Situations that remind them of the event
can produce intense anxiety, they begin
to avoid those situations.
May feel guilty because they survived and
others did not.
What would be an example of an event
that could cause PTSD.
Other Mental Disorder
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Some teens and young adults have
mood disorders or schizophrenia.
Others have impulse-control
disorders or personality disorders.
Mood Disorders
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People who have a mood disorder
experience extreme emotions that
make it difficult to function well in
their daily lives.
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An example is bipolar disorder
Shift from happy to sad, based on what is
happening in their lives.
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Also called manic-depressive.
Depression: __________________
Schizophrenia
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One of the most serious mental disorders
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Minds are “split off” or separated from
reality.
At times, may talk to themselves, display
inappropriate emotional responses, dress/act
strangely. Develop fears that are not
supported by reality.
May believe someone/something controls
their thoughts or wants to harm them.
Impulse Control Disorders
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Kleptomania: cannot resist the
impulse to take items that they don’t
need or want.
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About 75 million people in the US cannot
control the urge to gamble.
 Most among males.
May add uncontrolled shopping to the
list-85% are female.
Do you know someone with an
impulse-control disorder? How does
this affect his or her life?
Personality Disorder
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Personality determines how you tend to
relate to other people.
Person with a personality disorder
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Three broad groups
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Group A
Group B
Group C
Personality Disorder Groups
A
to be cold
and distant.
Absorbed in own
thoughts.
Cannot form
close
relationships.
B
C
Often overly
Often cannot
emotional/unstable make decisions.
High value on
Avoid peoplethemselves
fear rejection.
Can be selfish and May have strong
demanding.
need for the
approval of
others.
Paranoid
Antisocial
Tend
personality
disorder
personality
disorder
Dependent
personality
disorder
Section 1 Review
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6.
What is a mental disorder? How are mental
disorders recognized?
List four possible causes of mental
disorders.
What is an anxiety disorder? What is the
key difference between a phobia and
generalized anxiety disorder?
What is a compulsion? How does a
compulsion differ from an obsession?
What are some symptoms of a mood
disorder?
Explain how someone who has frequent
unexpected panic attacks might develop a
phobia.