Get into groups of 3-4

Select a DSM-5 mental health category. Write your names on it to “claim it”.

Research one of the disorders in the category and answer these questions

1. What are the primary symptoms and diagnostic criteria for this mental health disorder?

2. How does the disorder develop and take its course?

3. What are the risk and prognostic factors associated with this disorder?

Feel free to search the internet for the last two questions.

4. How does this disorder affect a person's daily life, relationships, and functioning?

5. What are some misconceptions or stigmas surrounding this disorder?

Share with the class

Primary symptoms include high emotional highs and low emotional lows over the course of week long periods with destructive/impulsive behaviors. Diagnostic criteria include time-frames for mood disruption (mania or depression) and how disruptive the behaviors are in each cycle of emotion. (excess spending, risky behavior, low hygiene, etc.)

Can be onset by puberty, child birth, and often manifests around early 20's.

There is an elevated risk of risky sexual behaviors that can incur sexual abuse victimization and disease as well as non-compliance with treatment or medication management due to impulsive tendencies.

Due to impulsivity relationships can be short lived and intense, there is a pronounced flighty thought pattern that can damage career maintaining, and intensity can be hard to create lasting healthy friendships and relationships.

"Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl" effect, thoughts of relating it to famous historically bad people (Kanye, Azealia Banks, Nicki Minaj) and that it is a quick cyclical pattern when it actually is more long term. Lots of sexualization of femme presenting people with the disorder and demonization of masculine presenting people with the disorder.

Primary symptoms for PTSD: Psychological distress following exposure to a traumatic or stressful event; in some cases, symptoms can be well understood within an anxiety- or fear-based context. However, many individuals who have been exposed to a traumatic or stressful event

exhibit a phenotype where, rather than anxiety- or fear-based symptoms, the most prominent

clinical characteristics are anhedonic and dysphoric symptoms; externalizing angry and

aggressive symptoms or dissociative symptoms. The diagnostic criteria for PTSD involve exposure to a traumatic/stressful event that is explicitly a part of the diagnostic criteria, re-experiencing symptoms, avoidance symptoms, and negative alteration in cognition and mood are general diagnostic criteria.

PTSD is developed by being put into traumatic situations which would trigger the "flight or fight" response. After experiencing traumatic events, people may feel extreme stress when put into same or similar situations.

Going through the predisposal to traumatic events is a risk factor. A prognostic factor could be coping mechanisms, or the severity of the trauma.

PTSD can negatively affect a person's life by causing them to have traumatic flashbacks and/or causing them to be avoidant.

A misconception is that Veterans are the only people who develop PTSD.

Primary symptoms involve change in cognitive, behavioral, and physiological symptoms. A diagnosis is given based on the type of substance and the type of mental health that accompanies it.

You can develop short term or long term problems and symptoms. The disorder develops depending on the strength of withdrawal that are associated with a certain substance.

Risks involve the development of mental disorders with the use of said substance. Intake of substance can result in psychiatric consequences related to previous mental disorders. Mental disorders are more likely to increase with the quantity and frequency of the substance being used.

This negatively affects daily life tasks and could serve to strain these relationships.

Some misconceptions would be that they are willingly doing these drugs all the time, and not treating them the right way could serve to make it worse. These people need rehab and help instead.

Primary symptoms and diagnostic criteria: clinically significant disturbances in sexual function judged to be due to effects of a substance. Symptoms appear from a withdraw or severe intoxication.

Sexual dysfunction disorder develop as early as 8 days for antidepressant; years for alcohol and nicotine effects; antipsychotic is unknown; after end of opioid use, premature ejaculation can occur.

Risk and prognostic factors associated are medication noncompliance (irregular use, complete stop) -> lack of efficacy for antidepressants. Heavy users of substances.

Affect a person's daily life, relationships, and functioning through frustration/lack of sexual activity, low self-esteem + relationship issues, physically distressing (lead to fatigue or joint paint).

Misconceptions or stigmas surrounding the disorder: belief that it's a moral failing, untreatable, and person is to blame.

The main symptoms of dissociative amnesia are sudden memory loss of important personal or traumatic events, trouble remembering who they are, and feeling stressed or upset because of the gaps. In some cases, the person may travel or wander unexpectedly, which is called a fugue state.

Dissociative amnesia develops primarily as a psychological defense mechanism against overwhelming stress or trauma. The course of the disorder can vary, with episodes lasting from a few minutes to a lifetime, and the prognosis depends on the severity of the trauma and the individual's life circumstances.

Dissociative amnesia is more likely in people who have experienced severe stress or trauma, have other mental health conditions, or are prone to dissociation. Most people recover their memories over time, especially with support or therapy, but repeated or chronic trauma can make recovery slower or incomplete.

This disorder has several impacts in people's lives like mental and emotional well-being it could cause identity confusion causing them to feel disconnected from their own life, detachment many reported feeling detached from themselves and their emotions and cause Anxiety and depression: The distress caused by memory gaps, identity loss, and a fractured sense of reality can lead to high rates of anxiety and depression. .

The primary symptoms are regurgitation and spitting out food to dispose ingested calories because of weight gain concerns. The diagnostic criteria is Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than what most individuals would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances. A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).

Bulimia nervosa commonly begins in adolescence or young adulthood before puberty's. Binge eating frequently begins during or after an episode of dieting to lose weight. Experiencing multiple stressful life events also can precipitate onset of

bulimia nervosa.

Some risk and prognostic factors are weight concerns, low self-esteem, depressive symptoms, social anxiety disorder, thin body ideal. Childhood physical or sexual abuse.

5. Only girls have eating disorders is a misconceptions.