Mental Health

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Mental Health

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Someone's capacity to interact with other people and their environment in many ways that enhance their sense of wellbeing and personal development

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Mental Illness

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a diagnosable disorder that greatly hinder's one's emotional, social or cognitive abilities

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Nature

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inborn traits and inherited genes

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Nurture

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influences of the external world

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Developmental tasks

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a responsibility that is considered to be important for a particular stage of the lifespan in order to progress successfully through life

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Search for identity

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a development task. Experiences during adolescence where individuals attempt to balance independence and belongingness

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Connectedness

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fully accepted within one's social group; belonging

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Risk-taking

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any action that has the possibility of gain (positive-risk-taking) or loss (negative-risk-taking)

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Peers

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Someone is the same age as others in a group or has the same abilities or social position as others in the group

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Personal identity

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what is particular about a person. It includes those qualities that distinguish one person from another and someone's awareness of their own being or identity

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Resilence

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the ability to recover or bounce back after experiencing a difficult circumstance

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Bullying

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when someone has more power and intentionally hurts or upsets another person or their reputation, social acceptance or property

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Non-Psychotic disorder

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these disorders include phobias, anxiety, some forms of depression and obsessive complusive disorder

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Hullucinations

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hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting or feeling things that are not there

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Delusion

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a mistaken belief that is strongly held even when there is evidence or proof that the belief is incorrect. eg. false belief of being famous

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Assertiveness

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stating a request confidently while respecting and listening to the feelings of others

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mental health problem

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a condition that hinders one's emotional, social or cognitive ability but to a lesser degree than a mental disorder

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Burden of disease

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a general term used in the public health system to identify the collective effect of the consequences of disease on society

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Chronic

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ongoing, therefore a chronic illness is one that is lifelong and does not have a cure

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Depression

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At it's most severe, a mental illness associated with biological and chemical imbalances of the brain and resulting in long lasting feelings of deep anxiety and unhappiness, poor sleep, loss of interest, energy, enjoyment and appetite

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Schizophrenia

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a group of specific mental illnesses, where disorder of the brain causes people to lose touch with reality

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Treatment

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An action of interruption designed to decrease the symptoms or impact of a mental illness

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Dementia

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A generic term for the deterioration of mental abilities related to thinking, remembering and reasoning

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Anorexics

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people with anorexia

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Bulimics

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People with bulimia

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Insomnia

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A sleeping problem characterised by difficulty falling asleep, frequent working during the night, or waking up earlier than desired

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Anxiety

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state of excessive weariness

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Bipolar Mood Disorder-Manic Depression

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A specific illness which results in swings of mood between highs and lows of emotion

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Clinic Depression

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A decision about mental illness, a person has based on scientific and medical information

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Episode

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many mental illnesses come and go. Some people may have only one episode and recover fully. Other people have periods of being ill and periods of being well. Some people recover, others learn to live with and manage their illnesses

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Grieving Process

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the process of experiencing a loss. This may include periods of sadness, anger, despair and possibly depression

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Paranoia

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mistaken beliefs or delusions that include fear, suspicion of others and a feeling of being got at. Example, people trying to kill, hurt or poison you

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Predisposition

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A susceptibility to mental illness because of a pre-existing factor like family history

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Psychological Treatment

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Treatment such as counselling and therapy dealing with the underlying reasons for depression and other mental illnesses