Q3 Arts Lesson 2-5

• MENTAL ILLNESS

  Are disorders that disrupt thinking, feelings, moods, and behaviors and impair daily functioning

  • These disorders may be caused by prolonged stress and mental and emotional suffering due to various triggers.

  • "TRIGGERS" are events, conditions, or situations that may "activate" a person's tendency to experience symptoms of mental disorders
• CLASSES OF MENTAL ILLNESS

  •MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

  •BIPOLAR DISORDER

  •Schizoprenia

  •Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Major Depressive Disorder

  • It is a normal to feel sadness and grief when faced with difficult situations. A person may develop a major depressive disorder when depression is on daily basis, characterized by "persistent sadness, despair and hopelessness"

  • Depressive disorder (also known as depression) is a common mental disorder. It involves a depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities for long periods of time.
• BIPOLAR DISORDER

  • Also called manic-depressive disorder, it is a "form of depression characterized by alternating mania and depression". A person who experiences the disorder may at times feel very happy and elated, then at an instant may feel utmost sadness and despair.
• SCHIZOPHRENIA

  • Schizophrenia is a "mental illness with biological origins that is characterized by irrational behavior, severe alterations of the senses and often inability to function in the society". A person with this illness may experience hallucinations or feeling of being detached and away from reality. He or she may lose the functions of the sense organs and thinks and imagines very differently than that of a normal person.
• POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

  • A person may have this disorder when he or she experienced a traumatic situation such as being abused, raped, or involved in an accident. Symptoms may vary from being spaced out (TULALA), extreme sadness or frustration, irritability, avoidance to people or isolation, and others.
• MENTAL HEALTH

  • Refers to your ability to process information

  • It affects on how you think, feel, act, and deal with life

  • It is also the ability to function comfortably in society
• EMOTIONAL

  • Refers to your ability to express feelings which are based upon the information you have processed
• Stress is defined as the physiological [or physical] and emotional responses to a significant or unexpected change or disruption in one's life.
• STRESS may also refer to "what you feel when you react to pressure, either from the outside world (school, family, friends) or from yourself.
• STRESSOR

  refers to the things that make a person stressed.
• Eustress

  a form of stress having a beneficial effect on health, motivation, performance, and well-being
• Distress

  the type of stress we are referring to when we say stress. It is the form of stress with negative implications
• EUSTRESS

  Eustress refers to a positive and healthy response of the body from a stressor thus produces good effects to one's well-being.
• What Is Distress?

  Distress is what many individuals know as "bad" stress. Distress often causes people to feel overwhelmed and anxious, and many also experience physical and psychological symptoms like headaches, tension, insomnia, inattentiveness, or irritability.
• The body changes that occur from experiencing stress is called general adaptation syndrome (GAS).
• THREE FACES OF SYNDROME

  Alarm Stage

  Exhaustion Stage

  Resistance Stage
• . ALARM STAGE

  This is the stage when a person experiences the "flight to fight" feeling. A person's body at this stage releases "stress hormones" such as adrenaline. It enables a person to do things he/she does not usually do.
• Resistance Stage

  This is the stage when the body has already responded to the stressor. A person in this stage continuously experiences the "stress". But the strong feeling is less than the previous stage.
• Exhaustion Stage

  This is the stage when a person slowly loses the energy to manage the stress. This is also referred to as the "gate toward burnout or stress overload" (Sincero, 2012)