Unit 4222-618 Understand mental well-being and mental health promotion. Outcome 1 Understand the different views on the nature of mental well-being and mental health and the factors that may influence both across the life span. 1. Evaluate two different views on the nature of mental well-being and mental health. Any two people are different, not everyone is the same or thinks the same.
According to www.justgreatadvice.com, a mixed episode is being both happy and sad, up and down, all at the same time. Generally, this translates into the patient being very depressed emotionally, but displaying symptoms of mania such as inability to concentrate and lack of sleep. The other main type of bipolar disorder is bipolar type II. Bipolar type II is depressive episodes shifting back and forth with hypomanic episodes, but no full-blown manic or mixed episodes. I like to think that a person that has bipolar type II is always “in between” highs and lows or back and forth.
Case Study HCA/210 Case Study According to The American Heritage Dictionary (n.d.), mental illness is any of various conditions characterized by impairment of an individual's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as infection or head trauma. Mental illness affects the way a person thinks or behaves. Bipolar, schizophrenia, and depression are among the most common mental illnesses people hear about today. It is far more difficult to spot a mental illness than a physical illness because a mental illness is not always apparent. The difference being, physical illness can be seen, and mental illness can hide, even masquerade it’s symptoms for long periods of time without any treatment.
There are a number if different anxiety disorders which include Obsessive-compulsive disorder and Phobias, in this essay I will be focusing on the different explanations of phobias. One explanation represents the medical model, which argues that mental disorders are an illness or disease. Another explanation represents the view that mental disorders are a problem of psychological dysfunction relating to the interaction between individuals and their environment. In the DSM-IV phobias are classified as anxiety disorders are the most common of all anxiety disorders. The first explanation of phobias is the genetic explanation, which argues that phobias are hereditary.
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that involves both manic and depressive episodes. While mania and depression are two extremely different mood episodes, bipolar disorder unifies both. For an individual diagnosed with bipolar, these moods can occur either at the same time or within a few days or weeks of each other. Although bipolar disorder is typically thought of synonymously with the mood disturbance of an individual, in fact, cognition, motivation, and physical functions are majorly affected as well. For example, during a depressive episode, mental processes are slowed down, and are also constituted by feelings of self-worthlessness and anhedonia, loss of pleasure.
Racial Barriers in Medical Interventions for Depression in African Americans Toyette’ M. Hazzard EH 1020, English Composition II Professor Catherine Croston June 15, 2012 Toyette’ M. Hazzard Professor Catherine Croston EH 1020, English Composition II June 15, 2012 Racial Barriers in Medical Interventions for Depression in African Americans Introduction Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders in the United States. Mayo Clinic (n.d.) defines depression as a medical illness that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Depression is an illness that can affect one’s mood, body and thoughts. It’s a chronic illness that usually requires long-term treatment, like diabetes or high blood pressure. Depression can lead to many different types of emotional and physical issues.
Jordaan (2013) explains that psychosis refers to a cluster of symptoms, among these disruptions in moods, thoughts, perception, language and behaviour. Jordaan goes on to say that Schizophrenia is the most common psychotic disorder with psychosis being the primary and central set of symptoms, although not all symptoms present in all people. These symptoms can be categorised as positive (active symptoms) and negative symptoms (absence or decline of normal functions) (Jordaan,
Bipolar I Disorder Bipolar I Disorder is a complex mood disorder that disrupts the quality of life for an individual with the occurrence of an episode or episodes known as Manic Episode during the course of the condition. According to Lyons and Martin (2009), a manic episode is described as a period of time in which an individual becomes highly talkative, hyperactive, easily irritated, over excited, very outspoken, and is not aware of their psychotic symptoms. Sometimes a person will only experience one episode (single manic episode), but this is rare because many times it is extremely common for that same person to experience another episode. The majority of people diagnosed with Bipolar I Disorder will indeed undergo the combination of two distinguished episodes at one time. Another episode is commonly known as a Depressive Episode.
The most commonly diagnosed forms are depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), phobias, bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic depression), schizophrenia, personality disorders and eating disorders. While, common behaviours and symptoms associated
Understand mental health problems 1.1 According to the psychiatric classification system there are 7 main types of mental ill health disorder. These are: Mood disorders – is a disorder that involves persistent feelings of sadness or moments of feeling extreme happiness to extreme sadness. The most common mood disorders are depression and bipolar disorder. Personality disorders – people with personality disorders have extreme personality traits that are distressing to the person and cause problems in work, school or social relationships. The person’s patterns of thinking and behaviour differ from the expectations in society and they interfere with the persons normal functioning.