Mental and Emotional Health

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Techniques people use to protect themselves from being hurt.

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs – focusing on the positive aspects of human behavior.

He organized human need by priority

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Types of Mental and Emotional Disorders

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Organic disorder – mental and emotional disorders resulting from a physical cause.

Physical illness- brain tumor

injury – blow to the head

chemical imbalance – drugs to destroy brain cells

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Eating Disorders – deep emotional problems related to self – image and self-esteem

Required psychiatric treatment

Increased among teens

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Anxiety disorder – a condition in which fear or anxiety prevents one from enjoying life and completing everyday task.

Most common

Phobias most well know

More women then men

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Dissociative disorder – a condition in which someone’s personality changes to the point that the person believes he or she is someone else

Amnesia

Multiple personality disorder

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Mood Disorder – a condition in which one mood is experienced almost to the exclusion of other feelings

depression

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Personality Disorder – an emotional condition in which a person’s patterns of behavior negatively affects that person’s ability to get along with others.

Antisocial

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Somatoform Disorder – emotional condition in which there are physical symptoms but no identifiable disease or injury, physical symptoms are caused by psychological factors.

Hypochondria

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Seeking Help IF You

Have prolonged feeling of depression or hopelessness

Feelings that life is out of control

Inability to concentrate or make decisions.

Difficulty getting along with others

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Cont.

Intense fears

Persistent difficulty sleeping

Emotional problems coping with a physical illness