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Mental Illness
By: Kassy Pelletier

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What is mental Illness/ Health
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Mental Illness- medical conditions that disrupt the a persons
thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily
functioning
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Mental Health- how you think, feel, and behave and how you
deal with everyday ups and downs in your life.

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Types of mental illnesses
 Depression/suicide
 Schizophrenia
 Addiction
 Eating
disorders
 Anxiety/
Phobias
 ADD/ADHD

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Depression/Suicide
 Symptoms:
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Fatigue/ loss of energy
Feelings of worthlessness
Reoccurring thoughts about death
Noticeable weight loss or gain
Agitation
Restlessness
irritability

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Depression/Suicide
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Causes:
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Genetics
people with depression feel like the can’t…
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Stop the pain
2.
Think clearly
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Sleep, eat, or work

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Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia is a chronic severe brain disability.
symptoms:
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Delusions
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Hallucinations
Little speaking
Causes:
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Brain structure
2.
Environment

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Addiction
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Symptoms:
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Stopped doing things you enjoy
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Built up substance tolerance
Lost control over addiction
Causes:
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Traumatic events in lifetime
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Addiction in family history
Mental disorder
Treatment:
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therapy

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Addiction: The Brain
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The brain is divided into 3 different parts; the central part is where the reward
pathway lies.
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The reward pathway drives our feelings of motivation, reward, and behavior.
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The reward pathway is connected to other brain parts that gather information
about what is happening to make you feel good.
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Your 5 senses send signs to your brain to let you know that there is
something you want in front of you.
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In another part of your brain is the memory that your substance, drugs,
alcohol, gambling etc., made you feel good so it tells you to do it again
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When you do something that makes you happy dopamine is released,
dopamine is the jolt pleasure you feel when you're happy.

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Addiction: the brain
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The reward pathway also makes sure you do the thing that
makes you feel good again and again.
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This is done by connecting the memory and behavior regions of
the brain.
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When the memory and behavior regions of the brain are
connected it increases the likely good that you’ll do it again,
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When you receive the dopamine, the reward pathway ensures
you’ll repeat this behavior again to be happy in life.

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Eating disorders: Anorexia
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Anorexia is when you eat very little amounts of very low calorie
foods.
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Symptoms:
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Very low body weight
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Dry Skin
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Fainting
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Eating very little

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Eating disorders: Bulimia
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When you eat large amounts
of food and then purging.
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Symptoms:
1. Stomach pain
2. Sore throat
3. Chronic heartburn
4. Swollen neck glands
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Medical consequences:
1. Damage to teeth,
esophagus, stomach,
lungs, heart, and
kidneys.
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How they feel:
1. Low self-esteem
2. Scared of being
overweight but scared to
keep eating
3. Guilty for eating

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Eating disorders: Binging
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Binging is eating mass amounts of food in a short period of
time
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Symptoms:
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Overweight/ Obese
How they feel:
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Out of control
Guilty after binging
Medical consequences:
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Obesity
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At greater risk of a stroke, hyperglycemia, high blood pressure,
high cholesterol, gall stones, gallbladder disease.

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Anxiety/ Phobias
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Anxiety- how people react to a
tense situation
attack:
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Anxiety disorders cause you to
have panic attacks in tense
situations
Panic attacks- shaking out of
fear
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Causes1. Can be inherited
2. Environment
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Symptoms of a panic
Discomfort
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Nausea
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Sweating
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Trembling
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Difficulty breathing
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Chills/ hot flashes
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Choking
 Treatment:
talk to a
therapist or medicine

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Different Anxiety disorders
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OCD-obsessive compulsive disorder- obsessing over doing
one thing compulsively.
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PTSD- posttraumatic stress disorder- fear from a traumatic
experience such as being in war or being abused
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Generalized anxiety disorder- fear that’s hard to maintain,
happens usually over a 6 month period.

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Phobias
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There's two types of phobias
Situational-fear of a situation.
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Environmental- fear of the outside world.
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example: tunnel, bridge, plane
Example: storms, body of water
Treatment:
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Medicine
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Therapy

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Types of phobias
AquaphobiaXenophobiaAcrophobia-
fear of water
fear of strangers
fear of heights

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ADD/ADHD
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ADD- Attention deficit disorder
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ADHD- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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Symptoms:
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Makes careless mistakes
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Acts without thinking
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Doesn’t pay attention to details
Easily distracted
Causes:
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Not exactly known what the causes it but genes play a role in
the developing the conditions.
Treatment:
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Medicine
2.
Therapy

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Work cited
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Nadelson, Carol C., ed. Understanding Anxiety Disorders. Uneasy Lives ed.
N.p.: Chelsea House, 2000. N. pag. Print.
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Favor, Lesli J. Food as Foe. nutrition and eating disorders ed. Tarry Town:
Bench Mark books, 2008. N. pag. Print.
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Andrews, Linda, Sheilla Avey, Brendan Nicholson, Kevin Pompei, and
Harmony Starr. "The New science of addiction." Learn.Genetics. Nation
Institute on drug abuse, 2003. Web. 19 Sept. 2013.
<http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/>.