MENTAL HEALTH & WELL-BEING

• Mental health - state of emotional and psychological wellbeing (How we think feel and behave). Individual is able to use their cognitive function, ad emotional capabilities.
• Wellbeing - Satisfacion w/ oneself. Subjective state that emerges from a general feelings.
• Mental health issues - common issues that arises caused by unavoidable stress
• Eating disorders - Disturbance of eating that result in altered consumption. Impair physical health.
• 3 types of eating disorders:

  • anorexia nervosa
  • bulimia nervosa
  • binge eating disorder
• Anorexia nervosa - fear of gaining weight. Eating too little or don't eat at all. Disturbed body image. Refusal to maintain normal body weight. Dangerous measures to lose weight.
• Bulimia Nervosa - Overeating/eating too much. Followed by efforts to induce VOMITING, FASTING, EXCESSIVE EXERCISE
• Binge eating - overindulgence of food. NOT followed by efforts to induce vomiting, and NOT accompanied by feelings of guilt.
• Anxiety Disorders - Feeling of fear, worry, and nervousness. Phpbic disorders, panic, obsessive-compulsive, behavioral disturbance.
• Phobic anxiety - physical symptoms such as trembling and palpitations
• Panic attacks - abrupt surge of environment
• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) - Uncontrollable intrusion of unwanted thoughts (obsession) and engage in senseless rituals (compulsions.)
• Major Depressive Disorder (DEPRESSION) - Characterized by hopelessness, lack of energy, and crying for unexplained reasons.
• Bipolar disorder - both depression and manic episode
• Conduct disorder - repeats patterns of behaviors in which the basic rights of others are violated.
• Juvenile Delinquency - crimes committed by minors?
• Personality Disorder - enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture. Adolescents who suffer from this usually display deviant behaviors and may be oversensitive or insensitive, rigid, and self-centered, or they may have extravagant illusions.
• 3 Types of anxiety disorder:

  • Phobic anxiety
  • Panic attacks
  • Obsessive-Compulsive disorder
• Paranoid personality disorder - distrust & suspiciousness of the motives of ppl around them
• Antisocial personality disorder - this is manifested by the individual’s disregard or violation of the rights of others. like to harm others
• Histrionic personality disorder - excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behaviors
• Narcissistic personality disorder - individuals with this type of disorder exhibit a pattern of grandiosity. Self-centered/obsessed with oneself. Think they're better than everyone else.
• Avoidant personality disorder - individuals show a pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation. Avoid social activities
• Dependent personality disorder - individuals demonstrate a pattern of submissive and clinging behavior related to an excessive need to be taken care of. Need other people and demand them to be always at their side.
• Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) - manifested by a pattern or preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control.
• Schizophrenia - means "Split mind". Deterioration in personal, social, and occupational functioning due to bizarre emotions and abnormal perceptions. Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking (speech), and abnormal motor behavior. Experience loss of contact with reality, or the so-called psychosis.
• Substance-related disorders

  • Drugs - caffeine, marijuana, and tobacco, whose chemical action alters the biological and psychological functioning of the person.
• Drug dependency or addiction - individual can no longer control his or her drug or substance intake
• Drug abuse - individual relies on drugs excessively, which affects his or her relationship with the family, efficiency at work, or even the capacity to decide realistically
• Tolerance - a concept commonly associated with substance abuse. Individual’s capacity to use the substance repeatedly in small doses and later larger doses to produce the desired effects
• Computer addiction - excessive use of the computer or the internet.
• Computer addicts - preoccupied with online activities and may demonstrate compulsive behaviors in using the computer or the internet
• Resilience - process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress
• Prevention - positive self-concept can serve as a buffer to the onslaught or problems and difficulties that a young person experiences