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1 TYPES OF MENTAL ILLNESS

2 A BEAUTIFUL MIND JOHN NASH

3 CAUSES USED TO THINK BAD FAMILIES WERE CAUSE (SCHIZOPHRENOGENIC MOTHER) NOW THOUGHT TO BE BRAIN DISORDER WITH GENETIC OR BIOLOGICAL CAUSE ABOUT 1% PREVALENCE IN WIDE VARIETY OF TIMES AND PLACES

4 CORRELATES LOW SOCIAL CLASS CAUSE OR CONSEQUENCE?
NO GENDER DIFFERENCES NO ETHNIC DIFFERENCES EARLY ONSET YEARS ALMOST ALL NOT MARRIED

5 PROGNOSIS (COURSE) USED TO THINK DEGENERATIVE
NOW THOUGHT TO BE VARIABLE 1/3 CHRONIC; 1/3 EPISODIC; 1/3 RECOVER HIGH RATE OF SUICIDE - 10%

6 TREATMENT USED TO BE LONG STAYS IN MENTAL HOSPITALS
NOW BRIEF, EPISODIC HOSPITAL STAYS ALONG WITH COMMUNITY TREATMENT (OR NEGLECT) MEDICATION SINCE 1950’S PHENOTHIAZINES AND CLOZAPINE

7 TREATMENT MEDICATION DOESN’T CURE, BUT CONTAINS - BUT MUST TAKE IT
PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENTS - SOCIAL AND JOB SKILLS, HOUSING PSYCHOTHERAPY LESS CRITICAL HARDEST TO TREAT - MICA (MENTALLY ILL CHEMICAL ABUSERS)

8 MAJOR PROBLEMS INADEQUATE FUNDING FOR TREATMENT
MANY DON’T ADMIT THAT THEY ARE ILL - STOP TAKING MEDICATIONS WHEN GET IN TROUBLE PUT IN JAILS AND PRISONS

9 BI-POLAR DISORDER

10 DYSREGULATION OF MOOD ALTERATIONS OF WILD ELATION AND DEEP DEPRESSION
CAN BE ACCOMPANIED BY DELUSIONS AND HALLUCINATIONS VERY DIFFERENT INTERPERSONALLY THAN SCHIZOPHRENIA - CONNECTEDNESS

11 MANIC PHASE SUPER-CHARGED ENERGY WHEN MANIC (67)
CREATES BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS (74) CAN BE VIOLENT (120) HIGH RATE OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE HIGH CREATIVITY AND PRODUCTIVITY

12 DEPRESSIVE PHASE TOTAL BLEAKNESS WHEN DEPRESSED (111)
HIGH RATE OF SUICIDE

13 CAUSE PROBABLE GENETIC CAUSE RUNS IN FAMILIES
PREVALENCE BETWEEN 1/2% TO 1% SEEMS TO BE UNIVERSAL

14 SOCIAL CORRELATES NO SOCIAL CLASS DIFFERENCES NO ETHNIC DIFFERENCES
SMALL GENDER DIFFERENCE VARIABLE AGE OF ONSET – FROM LATE TEENS TO MIDDLE AGE

15 COURSE AND TREATMENT HIGHLY VARIABLE COURSE, BUT USUALLY RECURRENT
MUCH HIGHER SOCIAL FUNCTIONING THAN SCHIZOPHRENIA LITHIUM MOST COMMON TREATMENT SINCE 1950’S CAN CONTROL CYCLES

16 JAMISON - UNQUIET MIND DIFFICULTIES OF TREATMENT
AMBIVALENCE TOWARD MEDICATION (98) IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL SUPPORT - INFORMAL AND PROFESSIONAL YAVI ASPECT?


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