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mental health problem |
causes a disruption in a person's thoughts, feelings and behaviour, not as serious as a mental illness |
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mental illness |
a prolonged psychological dysfunction, involving distress, impaired ability to cope with everyday life, atypical behaviour that may be in appropriate in their culture or society |
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psychological dysfunction |
impaired or disturbance in cognitive, emotional or behavioural functioning |
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distress |
being extremely upset |
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impaired ability |
unable to cope with everyday life |
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atypical |
thinking, feeling or behaving in ways that are not typical of the individual |
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socially or culturally inappropriate |
thoughts, feelings or behaviour that do not fits in with what is considered normal in their society or culture |
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psychotic illness |
lose touch with reality |
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non-psychotic illness |
remain in touch with reality despite dysfunction in their thoughts, feelings or behaviour |
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incidence of mental illness in Australia |
16 - 85 years old survey
- 85% no mental illness - 45% any mental illness - 20% with a mental illness in the past 12 months - 25% with no mental illness in the past 12 months |
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age differences (past 12 months) |
- 16 to 24:26% - 25 to 34: 24% - 35 to 44: 23% - 45 to 54: 21% - 55 to 64: 13% - 65 to 74: 7% - 75 to 85: 6% |
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gender differences |
any non-psychotic illness: 45% - female 43% - male 48%
anxiety disorder: 26% - female 32% - male 20%
substance use disorder (drug or alcohol): 25% - female 14% - male 35%
affective disorder (depression): 15% - female 18% - male 12% |
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psychotic illness in australia |
3% - 1% of population been personally affected by schizophrenia - 2% experienced bipolar disorder
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dsm |
diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders |
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labelling |
the process of classifying and naming a mental illness
- useful to recognise and describe and illness and help with treatment - can have a negative effect on individual being labelled - can have misunderstandings from people in community |
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stigma |
when an individual is discriminated against for having a mental illness |
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Rosenhan (1973) |
eight people who had never experience mental illness were sent to psychiatric hospitals saying they had been hearing voices saying 'thud'. they were diagnosed of schizophrenia. they behaved normally once admitted, but none of the medical staff recognised them as not being mentally ill. they stayed in the hospital from 7 - 52 days. they were released as in 'remission'. rosenhan concluded staff could not recognise normal behaviour once a person was labelled with having a mental illness. while in hospital, pseudo-patients made notes in relation to the rosenhan study, but they thought it was a part of their schizophrenic behaviour. the staff said for it to be a fair assessment, they should have been informed. in the next study the staff identified 41 out of 193 patients as fake, when in fact rosenhan did not send any fake patients |
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disruptions to normal development |
some onsets or beginnings of mental illness can happen during infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood or old age. some of them are more prevalent in lifespan stages like dementia in old age. but others like anxiety disorders can be experienced throughout the lifespan. some have no cure and symptoms are experienced for life, like autism. |
