Mental Health / Suicide Test Review Give complete answers to the questions below. Define the following words IN TERMS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND SUICIDE: 1. Alienation the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. 2. Anti-Social Personality Disorder a personality disorder characterized by persistent disregard of the rights of other people, failure to comply with laws and social customs, and irresponsible and reckless behavior. 3. Anxiety characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one's daily activities 4. Apathy lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern. -A lack of strong feeling, interest, or concern 5. Bipolar having or relating to two poles or extremities. 6. Depression Depression is an illness that affects one’s thoughts, feelings, behavior, physical health, activity, and sleep patterns. 7. Emotions Are a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. 8. empathy Empathy in Mental health Empathy is a natural human emotion, and it served our ancestors’ to thrive on being socially acceptable within society and sensitive to the needs of our offspring. Now, anyone devoid of it strikes us as threatening or mentally ill. 9. Feedback comments, compliments and complaints. It helps with review, evaluate and improve the service and care someone offer. Appreciate are both positive and negative feedback and take all complaints very seriously. -Messages from others that indicate who they think you are or what they think you are like 10. Functional Disorders It’s a result in psychological causes witch no clear brain damage has occurred. 11. Hypochondria Someone who lives in fear of having a serious illness, despite medical tests never finding anything wrong, may have somatic symptom disorder, also known as illness anxiety disorder. The condition has also been known by other names, including hypochondria, or hypochondriasis. The main symptom of hypochondria is excessive worrying about health 12. Mental health a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being. 13. Obsessive-Compulsive Disordera mental condition in which a person experiences persistent, intrusive thoughts that cause distress and performs repetitive physical or mental acts in order to prevent or counteract the thoughts and relieve the distress -A person is trapped in a repeated pattern or thoughts or behaviors 14. Organic Disorders Organic disorderis a permanent or temporary disfunction in the brain that is caused by phycological problems 15. Phobia an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something 16. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can occur after someone experiences a traumatic event that caused intense fear, helplessness, or horror. PTSD can result from personally experienced traumas (e.g., rape, war, natural disasters, abuse, serious accidents, and captivity) or from the witnessing or learning of a violent or tragic event. 17. Risk factors A risk factor is something that helps to create problems. Mental health problems are complex issues and are never the result of one risk factor. Someone who has several risk factors could have more resiliency towards problems than someone else who experienced less risk factors. 18. Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness where a person experiences hallucinations and delusions, emotional flatness and trouble with thinking. It affects about one percent of the population. 19. stigma Stigma is when someone views a person in a negative way just because they have a mental health condition Stigma can be described as a feeling of shame or judgement from someone else. 20. suicide Suicide is death caused by injuring oneself with the intent to die. A suicide attempt is when someone harms themselves with any intent to end their life, but they do not die as a result of their actions. Answer: 1 Name 4 causes of an organic mental disorder Depression, phobia, delirium, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and amnesia. 2 Name 4 causes of a functional mental disorder Stress, emotional, conflict fear, poor coping skills 3 Name 3 ways that stigma may impact someone with a mental disorder It stopped them from maintaining a job They were losing friends It kept them feeling loneliness 4 Name 3 risk factors for suicide. Low self esteem Substance Abuse Mental illness 5 Name 4 verbal signs of suicide. Direct statements such as “I want to die.” Indirect statements such as “I won’t be a problem for you much longer.” Writing poems, songs, lyrics or diary entries that deal with death. Suicide threats are either direct or indirect. 6 Name 8 non-verbal signs of suicide. 1. An unusual obsession with death. 2. Withdrawal from friends. 3. Dramatic changes in personality, hygiene, or appearance. 4. Impulsive or irrational behavior. 5. Significant deterioration in schoolwork or recreational performance. 6. Substance abuse. 7. Violent actions, rebellious behavior, or running away. 8. Giving away personal items. 7 Your ability to recognize the warning signs of suicide in yourself and others can mean the difference between…… Life and death 8 Name three strategies for preventing suicide. Always take talk about committing suicide seriously Never bargain with someone who is thinking about suicide Any discussion about suicide requires immediate intervention 9 Name three ways that you can help others thinking of suicide. • Initiate a meaningful conversation that shows interest and compassion for a person. • Show support, ask questions, and remind the person that most problems have solutions. • Try to persuade the person to seek help by encouraging him or her to talk with a parent, counselor, therapist, or other trusted adult. 10 Name 5 protective factors for suicide. Activities outside, talking to someone who will understand Strong will, emotional tolerance, adaptability self-esteem, religious, sports Physical activity/sports Therapy 11 What should you do if a friend is in a crisis? I should try and help my friend by talking, telling someone trying to get my friend the help she/he needs. 12. Is mental illness just like any other illness? EXPLAIN Physical illnesses, mental illnesses are related to problems that start in the brain. The brain is an organ. Just like any other organs in our body, it can experience changes (healing or injury) based on life experiences like stress, trauma, lack of sleep, and nutrition. Yes, it is like any other illness just in the brain.
