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Chapter 41
Caring for People With Mental Illness
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mental illness | Several disorders that affect a person's mood, thinking, and behavior |
| Mental health | The absence of mental illness |
| Stress | Any change from the normal routine that affects a person's ability to maintain a state of balance |
| Not being able to manage stress can put a person at risk for.. | Cardiovascular problems and digestive disorders |
| Stigma | Negative stereotype that leads to an attitude or belief that would cause one to view a person with a mental illness as inferior, dangerous, or unstable |
| Coping mechanisms | Conscious and deliberate ways of dealing with stress |
| Exercise, prayer, & meditation | Positive coping mechanisms |
| Nail biting, overeating, smoking, & abusing drugs or alcohol | Negative coping mechanisms |
| Methods of dealing with stress that "just happen"..Helps protect the person from emotionally traumatic events | Defense mechanisms |
| Compensation | To make up for a loss by filling in or substituting something else |
| Conversion | Changing one thing into another |
| Denial | Refusing to believe something that is true |
| Displacement | Shifting an emotion from one person to another who is less threatening |
| Projection | Blaming someone else for your own uncomfortable or unacceptable actions or feelings |
| Rationalization | Making excuses or creating acceptable reasons for poor behaviors or actions |
| Regression | Slipping to an earlier stage of development when faced with stress |
| Repression | Pushing to the unconscious painful or hurtful thoughts and memories |
| Feeling of uneasiness, dread, apprehension, or worry | Anxiety |
| Sudden, overpowering fright; person may feel like he/she is having a heart attach | Panic |
| An anxiety disorder that causes a person to intensely experience recurrent unwanted thoughts along with ritual that the person cannot control | Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
| Recurrent unwanted thoughts | Obsessions |
| Uncontrollable rituals | Compulsions |
| Excessive, abnormal fear of an object or situation | Phobia |
| Being afraid of things like dogs, insects, water, heights | Simple phobia |
| Fear of being humiliated or embarrassed in front of other people | Social phobia |
| Fear of being caught in a situation where an immediate exit would be difficult if panic attack occurred | Agoraphobia |
| Flashbacks, nightmares, depression, or panic attacks that began after experiencing an overwhelming traumatic event | Posttraumatic stress disorder |
| Feeling of excessive sadness or hopelessness | Depression |
| Mental disorder that causes mood swings | Bipolar disorder |
| Physical need for a substance that results in withdrawal signs and symptoms when a person quits taking the substance | Addiction |
| Emotional and physical reaction that occurs when use of a substance is discontinued | Withdrawal |
| When a person restricts food intake in an effort to lose weight; loss of appetite | Anorexia nervosa |
| When a person binges on food then purges | Bulimia nervosa |
| Eating an excessive amount of food without purging | Binge eating |
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