1. Mental Illness Students will be able to:
Compare and contrast types of mental illnesses
Provide examples of each mental illness
Determine if disorders can be prevented and how
Teach peers about specific disorders
Mental Illness

2. Mental disorder
An illness that affects the mind and reduces a person’s ability to function, to adjust to change or to get along with others.

3. Possible Causes Physical Factors- Damage to the brain
Heredity- Family history
Early Experiences- Extremely negative experiences that occur early in life can lead to mental illness
Recent Experiences- Events the have recently occurred in someone life could trigger a mental disorder

4. Types of Mental Illness
Organic Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorder
Psychosis
Personality Disorder

5. Organic Disorder
A mental illness that results from a physical cause, such as birth defect, disease or brain injury
Examples:
Brain Tumor, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Syphilis

6. Anxiety Disorder
When real or perceived problems cause distress affecting everyday life.
Examples:
Phobias- Irrational fear
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder- uncontrollable urge to think about and act on something repeatedly
Paranoia- Suspicion of others that is not based on fact
Posttraumatic Stress- develops after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened

7. Mood/affect Disorder
A mental disorder characterized by a consistent, pervasive alteration in mood, and affecting thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Examples:
Depression and Bipolar disorder

8. Psychosis
Any Major mental disorder that involves changes of personality and loss of contact with reality.
Examples:
Schizophrenia
Symptoms can include seeing, hearing, smelling, or tasting things that are not there; paranoia; and delusional thoughts. Depending on the condition underlying the psychotic symptoms, symptoms may be constant or they may come and go

9. Personality Disorder
Makes it difficult for somebody to get along with other people or to succeed at work or in social situations but that does not involve loss of touch with reality
Three “clusters”
Cluster A- Odd or Eccentric Behaviors
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizotypal Personality Disorder

10. Personality Disorder Continued
Cluster B- Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic Behavior
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Cluster C- Anxious, Fearful Behavior
Dependent Personality Disorder