History of mental health- applications

Broad group of illnesses affecting mood

Sadness, emptiness or irritability

Mania, euphoria or rage

Damaging impact on the individual's capacity to function

Depression is an example- 1/5 of population suffer (2013)

Sadness + Hopelessness + may deny feelings

Noticed in facial expressions, demeanout, atypical angry/tearful outburtsts or social withdrawal

Lose appetite/eat excessively, difficulty sleeping/sleep to excess, suicidal ideation- passive thoughts - specific plans of suicide

Psychomotor agitation- inability to relax/keep still- pacing/handwringing

Delay to psychomotor responses- excessive pauses before speaking/skowed body movements

Symptoms must be present every day/nearly every day for at least 2 consecutive weeks

Depressed mood + loss of interest in pleasurable activities- 2 essential criteria

Puberty- peak 18-29 females, 1.5-3 X higher rates than males, children- mood may seem irritable rather than sad

Can reoccur- risk of recurrence diminishes over time spent in remission

Long-term mental health condition affecting thoughts, emotions + behaviour

Loss of contact with reality- percieve things around them differently

'Positive symptoms'- addition of new behaviours- hallucinations/delusions

'Negative symptoms'- removal/loss of normal function- lack outward emotion/reduction in speech

Hallucinations- hearing, seeing + feelings that don't exist

Delusions- beliefs not based on reality- paranoid belief people 'out to get' them when they're trying to help

Symptoms are not immediately recognisable- changes are slow

Social withdrawal/apathy mistaken for normal phase of adolescent behaviour

Diagnosis only given if not better explained by substance use/underlying medical issues 

Hallucinations, delusions, catatonic behaviour, disorganised speech

1/100 pople diagnosed in their lifetime- common

Males in late teens and women a few years later (25)

Men likely to expereince hospitalisation as a result

Aggressive behaviour is NOT a sympton- more likely to be a danger to themselves or at risk of ham from others

Feelings + behaviours characterised by excessive + persistent fear of anxiety

Fear- emotional response to threat

Anxiety- expectation of that threat

Specific phobias are a type of anxiety disorder that affect 6% of people in UK

Common phobic stimuli- animals, natural environment, situations + injury

Unusual- pteronophobia- deathers, spectrophobia- mirrors, zemmiphobia- mole rats

An intense, severe and irrational fear that produces a physiological response such as sweating, shaking and increased respiratory rate

Actively avoid encountering it

Significant impact on their lives preventing normal functioning

Realise reaction to phobic stiumli is disproportionate

Multiple phobis- 75% with a specific phobia, fear more than 1 (2013)

Adolescents + females most likely

Gender differences- animal + natural phobias- female, blood + injury phobias- equal