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Mental Illnesses. Can happen to anyone, of any age, anywhere. Bipolar Disorder. Depression. Dissociative Disorder (DID). Eating Disorders. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). What is mental illness?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Mental Illnesses
Can happen to anyone, of any age, anywhere.
Bipolar Disorder
Depression
Dissociative Disorder (DID)
Eating Disorders
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
What is mental illness?
A group of mental disorders that causes severe disturbances in thinking, feeling and relating. People with mental illness often have difficulty dealing with daily life.
What is mental illness?
Changes in thinking, mood, behaviorDecreases ability to functionLeads to:
pain disabilityinjuryloss of freedom death
“The Four Ds” – 1) Deviance Deviance from
what? From behaviors,
thoughts, and emotions considered normal in a specific place and time and by specific people
From social norms Stated and unstated
rules for proper conduct in a given society or culture
39% People who confess to snooping in their hosts’ medicine cabinets
27% Those who admit taking more than the maximum number of items through a supermarket express line
23% Those who confess to not flushing the toilet all the time
10% Those who believe they have seen a ghost
5% Those who have sunbathed nude
2) Distress
According to many clinical guidelines,
behavior must be personally distressing before it can be labeled abnormal
Consider the Ice Breakers, a group of people in Michigan who go swimming in lakes throughout the state every weekend from November through February. The colder the weather, the better they like it. One man, a member of the group for 17 years, says he loves the challenge. Man against the elements. A 37-year-old lawyer believes that the weekly shock is good for her health. “It cleanses me,” she says. “It perks me up!” Another Ice Breaker likes the special bond the group members share. “When we get together, we know we’ve done something special, something no one else understands. I can’t even tell most of the people I know that I’m an Ice Breaker.” Certainly these people are different from most of us, but is their behavior abnormal? Far from experiencing distress, they feel energized and challenged. Their positive feelings must cause us to hesitate before we decide that they are functioning abnormally.
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3) Dysfunction Abnormal behavior tends to be dysfunctional; that
is, it interferes with daily functioning. It so upsets, distracts, or confuses people that they
cannot care for themselves properly, participate in ordinary social interactions, or work productively.
Brad, for example, has quit his job, left his family, and prepared to withdraw from the productive life he once led.
Then again, dysfunction alone does not necessarily indicate psychological abnormality. Some people (Gandhi or César Chávez, for example) fast or in other ways deprive themselves of things they need as a means of protesting social injustice. Far from receiving a clinical label of some kind, they are widely viewed as admirable people—caring, sacrificing, even heroic.
4) Danger Perhaps the ultimate in psychological
dysfunctioning is behavior that becomes dangerous to oneself or others. Individuals whose behavior is consistently careless, hostile, or confused may be placing themselves or those around them at risk.
Although cited as a feature of psychological abnormality, dangerousness is an exception rather than a rule
Brad, for example, seems to be endangering himself by his diet and others by his buildup of arms and ammunition.