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.
A lot of the time a person with social anxiety may have trouble falling asleep due to the stress of an upcoming social event. Having bad sleeping patterns such as these can wear a person’s body down and create serious health problems (Denkmire and Perritano 7). Individuals with social phobia tend to over analyze or over think simple situations which can cause a large amount of stress when done every day. Heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure are a few serious side effects associated with the stress that accompanies social anxiety. Social anxiety increases a person’s chances of developing high blood pressure.
Physical symptoms of GAD include a fast or pounding heart, headaches and inability to relax. Pyschological symptoms include excessive worry, feeling on edge, difficulty concentrating and sleep disturbances. After GAD has been present for a while a person may have inability making decisions that would normally be easy and may continually seek reassurance about everyday matters. * Panic Disorder A panic attack is where a person
Generally caused by a traumatic experience, people with dissociative identity disorder describe it as being more than one person. The presence of these two or more distinct or split identities consistently take power over a persons life. Most of us experience a mild case of dissociation. For example day dreaming, or getting lost in a really good song. With intense cases of dissociative identity disorder, there distant memory variations that hinders a person's ability to recall personal information.
Mental health issues (MHI) are often hidden as there is considerable social shame and stigma associated with MHI. In particular, a lot of people perceive that people with MHI may behave erratically, causing humiliation or harm to others (Bhugra 1989, Kelly & McKenna 1997). However, those who have had personal interaction (Wolff, Pathare,
SANE Australia (2012) describes depression as the one of the persistent feelings of sadness which all of us experience at various stages of our lives, but others feel on a regular basis. There are a variety of symptoms of depression that can affect everyone in different ways, these may include: the feeling of extremely sad or tearful; loss of sleep; losing interest and motivation in everyday activities; feeling guilty or no good; losing pleasure in activities; anxiety; changes in weight; loss of sexual interest; aches and pains; impaired thinking or loss of concentration (SANE Australia, 2012). Clinical depression is a serious medical illness that negatively affects how you think, the way you feel and how you behave. Individuals with clinical depression are unable to function and participate in activities as they used to. Often they lose interest in everyday activities that were once enjoyable to them, and feel sad and hopeless for extended periods of time, for no apparent or obvious reason (SANE, Australia, 2012).
For some of these individuals mental health is extreme and persistent, so for this reason bereavement is a concern for clinical practise. The definition of grief is the main emotional reaction to bereavement, incorporating psychological and physical reactions. Over the past few decades, scientific study of the symptoms, mental health outcomes and ways of coping with this sort of grief has grown rapidly. Psychological reactions to bereavement are diverse, differentiating between individuals as well as cultures, age groups and ethnic groups. Bereavement is a very distressing experience for most people that causes a considerable amount of upset and disruption of everyday life.
(Schwartz 2000). Weir and Oie 1996 described the classification system as a functional, standardised and validated mean of grouping objects and phenomena. A mental health professional classify the disorder according to the patterns of behaviour, thought and emotion. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition (text revision) (DSM- IV- TR) (American Psychiatric Association 2000) and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD- 10 – AM) (WHO 1992) was a product of research developed as the universal system of classification. An understanding of the system classification allows mental health professionals to communicate effectively and professionally to other health disciplines in participating collaboratively in the patient’s care, to contribute to clinical problem solving and in attributing appropriate therapy interventions (Clinton & Nelson 1996).
This medication is known to cause an increased risk to death in patients, memory loss, confusion, loss of reality, increased risk in suicidal thoughts, new or worse depression, new or worse anxiety, agitation or restlessness, panic attacks, increased aggressiveness, angry or violent behavior, an extreme increase in activity and talking, cause the patient to experience strokes that can lead to death, lower white blood cell count, difficulty swallowing, and lastly this medication can cause a serious effect called neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS): this is a rare condition that can happen in patients who take antipsychotic medications especially LATUDA, this medication can and will cause death when these symptoms are experienced high fever, excessive sweating, rigid muscles, confusions, and changes in heartbeat and blood
Bipolar I Disorder and the Diathesis-Stress Model Abnormal Psychology December 5, 2011 Professor James Morley People experience a wide range of emotions throughout ones life; it is simply a part of human nature. Feelings of depression, elevated levels of anxiety, and reckless behavior, are in fact, normal in brief stints, as it would be considerably unhealthy to stifle such emotions. However, in some instances “such moods swings become so prolonged and extreme that the person’s life is seriously disrupted” (Alloy, Manos, Riskind, 2005, p. 246). This is when a disorder becomes categorized as an illness, rather than simply the stresses of everyday life. Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that involves both manic and depressive episodes.