One in six people has a mental illness. Mental illnesses are caused by imbalances in brain chemicals that affect thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. They can be triggered by genetic and environmental factors. Common mental illnesses include anxiety disorders like panic attacks, phobias, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), mood disorders like depression and bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, which causes a break from reality.

1. Mental Illness
MENTAL ILLNESS
FACT: One out of every six
people has a mental illness.

2. Mental Illness
Teaching Points
TO KNOW the definitions of :-
1. Anxiety disorders (panic attacks, phobias & OCD)
2. Mood disorders (depression & bipolar)
3. Schizophrenia
List two factors that can lead to mental illness.

3. Mental Illness
When the brain is working properly, it responds to
life events with normal emotions.
But the brain’s responses can be changed
by illnesses that affect the balance of
chemicals in the brain.
The brain controls thoughts, feelings, memories
and actions. A mental illness is a disorder that
affects them.
Understanding Mental Illness

4. Mental Illness

5. Mental Illness
Causes of Mental Illness
It is not completely understood. Many illnesses
are more common in some families than others.
Inherited traits may influence mental illness.
Sometimes stressful events can trigger a mental
illness, so the environment may also influence
mental illness.

6. Mental Illness
Panic disorder is an anxiety that causes a person
to have brief periods of extreme anxiety called
panic attacks.
During panic attacks, people become extremely
scared and may think they are having a heart
attack.
They may experience a fast heart rate, difficulty
breathing, shaking and lightheadedness.
Anxiety Disorders - Panic Attacks

7. Mental Illness
Panic attacks that are triggered by specific things
are called phobias.
Common phobias include fear of animals, or
situations, such as flying. Social phobia is a
disorder that causes people to fear social
situations, such as giving a speech or meeting
new people.
Acrophobia - Fear of Heights
Claustrophobia - Fear of Enclosed Spaces
Nyctophobia - Fear of the Dark
Ophidiophobia - Fear of Snakes
Arachnophobia - Fear of Spiders
Nosophobia - Fear of Having a Disease
Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the Number 13
Anxiety Disorders - Phobias

8. Mental Illness
Sometimes anxiety is triggered by repetitive
thoughts called obsessions.
Some people develop rituals, or compulsions,
such as excessive counting or washing, to try and
overcome this anxiety.
This combination of anxiety and ritual activity is
an anxiety disorder called obsessive-compulsive
disorder (OCD). Medicines and counseling can
usually treat people with OCD successfully.
Anxiety Disorders - OCD

9. Mental Illness
Depression is a disorder that causes a mood of
extreme sadness or hopelessness. It may cause
people to sleep or eat or less than they normally do.
Mania is a mood that causes excessive energy
and irritation. Manic people are very active and
need little sleep. There thoughts may race and
become disorganized. They may talk fast and may
be difficult to interrupt.
The two extremes of BMD are usually separated
by periods of normal moods. Periods of
depression or mania can last from weeks to
months.
Mood Disorders - Depression & Bipolar

10. Mental Illness
Is a disorder in which a person breaks from reality in
several ways. People with the disorder do not always
have the same symptoms.
Schizophrenia skit-se-free-nee-uh
Most people who have this disorder express little
emotion. They usually have hallucinations and
delusions, and often they feel paranoia.
Paranoia is the belief that other people want to
harm someone. Many people who have the disorder
suffer from disorganized thinking, which can lead
to nonsense speech.