Mental Illness

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Mental Illness

• Abnormal Psychology

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What is Normal
Turn to a partner. For two minutes
discuss -What is normal? -How do you tell if
someone is normal or not? -Is what is considered
to be normal in North America normal in other
parts of the world?
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Mental Illness

• What is abnormal?
• Largely a social construction
• Abnormal behaviour personally distressful,
  personally dysfunctional, and/or culturally
  deviant behaviour

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History of Mental Illness

• Trends show a steady increase in the diagnosis of
  mental illness.
• WHY? Discuss with partner

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Mental Illness

• Historical Perspective
• Many individuals throughout history have suffered
  from mental illness
• Instead viewed as
• the work of demons, physiological disorders,
  maladaptive behaviors

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Mental Illness

• Demonological View caused by supernatural forces
• Biological View caused by physical malady
• Freud Unresolved conflicts from childhood
• Current Vulnerability-stress model

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Mental Illness
Vulnerability -Genetic -Learning -Biological
Stressor -Economic -Environment -Personal
Psychological Disorder
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Mental Illness

• At any given time, 22 of the population suffers
  from a diagnosable mental disorder
• Nearly half of North Americans between the ages
  of 15 and 54 will experience a diagnosable mental
  disorder

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Mental Illness

• Anxiety Disorders
• Examples of anxiety disorders
• Phobias
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Panic disorder
• Post-traumatic stress disorder

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Mental Illness

• Anxiety Disorders
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Obsessions Recurrent, persistent thoughts
• Compulsions Repetitive behaviors or mental acts

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Mental Illness

• OCD manifests itself in several different ways
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vRIS47NP7Wo8feature
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Mental Illness

• Occurrence
• No link between male and female
• About 1-3 of the population

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Mental Illness

• Mood (Affective Disorders)
• Examples
• Depression
• Bipolar

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Mental Illness

• Mood (Affective) Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder
• Alternates between periods of mania and depression

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Mental Illness

• Occurrence
• Occurs is about 1 of the population
• Onset of full symptoms usually occurs in early
  adolescents
• Vincent Van Gogh, Axl Rose, Ben Stiller, Mozart

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Mental Illness

• Dissociative Disorders
• Psychogenic amnesia
• Dissociative identity disorder

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Mental Illness

• Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
• Multiple personality disorder
• Each have distinct memories or behaviors
• May or may not be aware of others existence

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Mental Illness

• Does DID really exist?
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vYXuG2zI39yAfeature
  related

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Mental Illness

• Personality Disorders
• Psychopathic personality disregard for the
  rights and well beings of others
• May be caused by disturbance of brain function.

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Mental Illness

• Schizophrenic Disorders
• Distortion of reality, social withdrawal and
  disturbances
• Delusions False beliefs
• Apathetic No interest in emotion
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Mental Illness

• Causes
• Genetic?
• Prenatal?
• Substance Abuse?