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Health & Nutrition
Apologia: Mental and Emotional Stability Module 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mental health requires you to approach past, present, and future with a clear grasp of reality. | Learn from the past; Possess a positive outlook for the future; Make good decisions (present) |
| Can you truly control everything in your life? | No, but you do have the responsibility of CHOICE. God lets you choose your attitude, what thoughts you allow into your mind and dwell on, and what action you will take. |
| Consciousness | Thinking---takes place in the cerebrum (the largest part of the brain) |
| Can you tell if someone is thinking? YES How? FLIP THE CARD | Scientists study brain waves through a test that records neuron impulses called an electroencephalograph (EEG). Problem-solving Communication through language Creativity |
| Mental Illness | A medical condition in which a person loses the ability to care for daily needs and cannot cope with life's ordinary demands. |
| Anxiety Disorder | Feelings of terror a person has in situations that most people would not sense as threatening |
| Compulsions | A need for repetitive rituals |
| Bipolar Disorder | A lifetime illness characterized by cycles of an intense high (mania) followed by a debilitating low (depression). |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | Impulsive and unpredictable mood and behavior that damages personal relationships, especially with friends and family members. The person can be moody, angry, and unreasonable, with behaviors that are irrational and irritating. |
| Schizophrenia | A breakdown of normal thought with delusions (ideas that are not true) and/or hallucinations (the person believes he sees or hears things even when others do not). |
| Self-Harm Behaviors | Repeated acts of self-injury; they include cutting, burning, or scratching the skin; pulling out hair; and banging the head repeatedly. These behaviors are used to temporarily relieve intense feelings or to express self-loathing (a particularly intense feeling of self-disapproval). |
| Autism Spectrum Disorder | This child will have delays in spoken language, will not make eye contact, and will not return a smile. This is noticeable in early childhood. |
| Dementia (or cognitive dysfunction) | Permanent loss of memory, attention, language, and problem-solving in an otherwise healthy individual. |
| Major Depression | This is NOT just sadness but an ongoing disease, with seasons of normal thought followed by times of depressed mood, poor concentration, poor sleep, fatigue, and poor appetite. |
| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) | Some people feel depressed every winter due to lack of sunlight. |
| How do you make a good decision? | Learn from the past. Be hopeful for the future. Live in the present moment. (Don't waste present opportunities.) |
| Attention Span (definition) What is good for your attention span? What is bad? | Length of time a person can keep concentrating on a certain idea. GOOD: Exercise your attention span; it grows stronger; Needed to think deeply and reflectively about something; Necessary in learning BAD: Multitasking shortens our attention span; Too much information limits your attention span which prevents you from thinking deeply on one idea/subject. |
| Emotional Health | The state of being aware of how you feel and expressing it appropriately. Your emotions are the gauge (like on a car's dashboard) that allow you to know there is a problem and handle it in an appropriate way---NOT in anger or temper tantrum. |
| Dysthymia | Depression--less intense than major depression but longer-lasting depression A person with dysthymia can often function in daily life but has lost interest in it and is not productive. His/Her mood is critical, complaining, and gloomy; he/she doesn't smile or laugh and cannot have fun. |
| Read the pages on grief (pgs. 76-78). Understand how to handle grief. Read about contentment, gratitude, and joy (pgs. 78-80). Understand those concepts about expressing positive emotions intentionally. | |
| Anosognosia | Many people with mental illness also suffer from anosognosia, a delusion that they ARE NOT mentally ill. This is the primary reason that many mentally ill people do not get better, do not attend psychotherapy appointments, and do not stay on their medications. |
| ADD: daydreamer; pays no attention to what is being said-distracted ADHD: distracted but also hyperactive: constantly in motion and unable to sit still | ADD/ADHD is a spectrum, meaning it varies from person to person. Some people find relief with lifestyle change while others need medical help which may include medication. ADD/ADHD is not a behavioral problem that can be corrected with discipline. |
| Brain Reserve | An extra measure of brain function to be used to process stressful situations that arise. People with more reserve will be more resilient under stress. |
| Rumination | Dwelling on an unsolvable problem again and again without coming to a conclusion. |
| How do you help someone experiencing deep grief? | Visit the grieving person; just be present-Words are inadequate. Join in the sorrow; acknowledge the loss but don't search for some great words of wisdom to share. Share a memory when the timing is right. |
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