Health: Chapter 9 Mental Health Disorders
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Mental Disorders | An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person, preventing him or her from leading a happy, healthful, and productive life. |
| Organic Mental Disorders | Caused by physical problems that imairs brain function either perminaintly or temporarily |
| Functional mental disorders | Stems from a person's enviornment |
| Organic disorders | chemical imbalances or physical abnormalty |
| dementia | Severe irreversible loss of mental ability. Can't remember names, conversations, and suffer from lack of judgement. |
| Delirium | Rapidly becoming confused and lose their awareness of their environment |
| Developmental disorders | Disorders that begin to show signs in early childhood |
| Autism | Child is emotionally detatched from their surroundings. Like order. Usually very intelligent |
| Attention Deficit Disorder | Child's inability to maintain concentration or focus. |
| Manic depression | (bipoler) Wildly elated and impulsive people . Appear happy, extra energy, can lead to violent behavior |
| Anxiety disorders | Condition in which anxitety is the main symptom or is the result of trying to control certian behaviors |
| Anxiety and panic disorder | A constant state of tension with no cause |
| Phobia | Unreasonable fear of a situation or object |
| Obsessive-compulsive disorder | Persistant thoughts interrupt thingking, and they undergo certain |
| Post-traumatic stress disorder | Tramatic events cause severe streess for a long time; "Shell Shock" |
| Hypochondria | People strongly believe that they're ill when they're not. |
| Personality Disorders | Personality traits that prevent people from interacting with others in a healthy way |
| Anti-social personality disorder | Feel little sense of responcibility, have to respect for the rights of others, and no sign of a conscious. (Serial Killers) |
| Paranoid personality disorder | having an unfounded suspicioun and mistrust of others. Feel cheated, spied upon, followed, harrassed (and think it's happening) |
| Schizoid personality disorder | A deep withdrawl from people. They neither desire or enjoy close relasionships. They don't like praise OR criticism. Shows emotional coldness (take the night shifts) |
| Passive-aggressive personality disorder | Quietly defiant until they're corrected; then the blow up. Strongly resist cooperation with others. Forget commitments and responcibilities |
| Dissociative disorders | Condition in which a personality suffers sudden change |
| Amnesia | Sudden inability to remember basic personal information |
| Multiple Personality disorder | A person develops two or more separate personalities |
| Schizophrenia | a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation |
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