Unit 10 by Ilakkiya Venkatachalam https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten Mental Health en-us 2018-03-14 12:30:27 UTC 2025-09-26 19:13:09 UTC hello@padlet.com Depression TedX ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/241827963 Physical Manifestations
- disturbances in circadian rhythm
- smaller frontal lobe/hippocampus
- interaction of genes and environment
Advice
- talk about it openly
- talk about suicide
- ask for help
- don't compare it to a normal instance of sadness in your own life]]> 2018-03-14 12:32:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/241827963 Mental Health ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/241829350 stigma: mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality, or person
UMAD? = mental illness
  • unjustifiable
  • maladaptive
  • atypical
  • disturbing
Neurosis: emotional disturbance characterized by excessive anxiety (can still function)
Psychosis: emotional disturbance characterized by mobility to cope in the real world (can't function in life)
3 perspectives
biological, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral
]]> 2018-03-14 12:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/241829350 Depression (mood disorder) ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/241830010 a constant low
Major Depressive Disorder
  • intense sadness (can last months to forever)
Dysthemia/Persistent Depressive Disorder
  • involves less intense sadness, 2 years or more, biological origin
Seasonal Affective Disorder
  • depression which occurs at specific times of the year with less sunlight
]]> 2018-03-14 12:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/241830010 Bipolar Disorder aka. Manic Depression (mood disorder) ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/241832147 involves both depressed and manic episodes
Bipolar I
- extreme mania
Bipolar II
- only goes to hypomania
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Causes of Depression
Biological Factors
- chemical imbalances
  • serotonin - low levels
- linked with Chromosome 11
  • for bipolar, both low serotonin and high norepinephrine
]]> 2018-03-14 12:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/241832147 Dissociative Disorders ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/242773913 Amnesia
Psychogenic
  • memory loss for distant and recent past
  • loss of personal identity
  • usually ends within hours or days
Organic
  • memory loss for only recent past
  • loss of personal and gen knowledge
  • memory many or may not return
Dissociative Identity Disorders (DID)
  • MPD (multiple personality disorder)
  • Personality "breaks" (becomes different from what its been)
  • usually due to severe trauma/abuse
Fugue
  • reversible amnesia for personal identity
  • forgetting memories, personality, and other identifying characteristic of individuality
  • lasts hours to days
  • usually involves unplanned wandering or travel
  • hysteria and epilepsy
]]> 2018-03-16 12:27:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/242773913 Schizophrenia ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/242786251 Psychotic disorder
  • Disordered thoughts, inappropriate actions, bizarre behavior
  • genetic, excessive dopamine [hallucinations (false senses) delusions (false beliefs)
  • positive (+) hallucinations are added
  • negative (-) behavior is decreases, flat
Types
paranoid: preeoccupation with delusions or hallucinations
disorganized: disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion
catatonic: immobility, extreme negativism
undifferentiated or residual:
]]> 2018-03-16 12:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/242786251 Personality Disorders ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/244477244 --> inflexible, exaggerated and maladaptive ways of thinking
--> behavior causes distress to person and conflicts with others
Cluster A
- person seems odd or eccentric
schizoid personality disorder
  • long-term and persistent pattern of indifference detachment from society and a very limited range of emotions, seldom marry
schizotypal personality disorder
  • odd thought, speech and emotional reactions; impaired social function (luna lovegood)
paranoid personality disorder
  • inappropriately suspicious and mistrustful of others; refuse to accept blame or criticism
]]> 2018-03-21 12:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/244477244 Personality Disorders ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/244483057 Cluster B (emotional or erratic
borderline personality disorder
  • tends to act impulsively, self destructive, unstable self-image, mood; mostly women
  • normal thinking is like a rainbow color spectrum, borderline thinking is black or white no inbetween
antisocial personality disorder
  • pattern of violent, criminal, or unethical behavior (psychopath), inability to feel affection for others, no remorse for actions, mostly men
histrionic personality disorder
  • very dramatic, attention seeking, needs praise and reassurance (Regina George)
narcissistic personality disorder
  • grandiose view of themselves, constant attention and admiration
]]> 2018-03-21 12:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/244483057 Personality Disorders ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/244490755 Cluster C (anxious or fearful)
dependent personality disorder
  • inability to make decision on their own, can't live independently, can't tolerate being alone
avoidant personality disorder
  • fears of rejection, leads to isolation
obsessive compulsive personality disorder
needs orderliness (obsessed), personal control, rules, schedules, unreasonable perfectionism
]]> 2018-03-21 12:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/244490755 PD Party ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/244495124 Hillary: dependent personality disorder
Annie: histrionic personality disorder
Vincent: schizotypal personality disorder
Erin: borderline
Issac: narcissistic
Sam: ocpd
Sue: paranoid
Ulysses: schizoid
Ericka: avoidant]]> 2018-03-21 13:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/244495124 random ilakkiyaven2598 https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/248467630 systematic desensitization: is learning
schizophrenia is disordered thought
somatic (somataform) symptom disorder: feeling anxiety about physical symptoms]]> 2018-04-04 12:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ilakkiyaven2598/unitten/wish/248467630