Chapter 2: Mental Health And Stress

Question 1

Bipolar disorder

Answer 1

Characterized by alternating manic and depressive episodes

Question 2

What makes depression a major depressive disorder?

Answer 2

One or more episodes, with at least 5/9 symptoms lasting for at least 2 weeks

Question 3

How does stress affect the gastrointestinal system?

Answer 3

Acid reflux, digestion issues

Question 4

Phase 3 general adaption syndrome

Answer 4

Exhaustion: body can not keep up with demands of stress

Question 5

What are manic episodes? What do they look like?

Answer 5

A period with abnormally elevated mood

Elevated mood or irritable, grandiose, racing thoughts, accelerated speech, may not sleep for days

Question 6

Chronic stress

Answer 6

Long term, low level stress where the stress response continues without resolution

Question 7

Stress

Answer 7

General state of the body, mind, and emotions when an environmental stressor has triggered the response

Question 8

What is a mental disorder?

Answer 8

A pattern of behavior in an individual that is associated with distress or disability

Question 9

What are mentally healthy people capable of doing?

Answer 9

Has the capacity to respond to challenges that allow continued growth
Ability to adapt
Able to deal with life changes without being impaired

Question 10

What are the signs of depression?

Answer 10

Depressed mood, loss of interest in all or most activities, weight loss/appetite change, strange sleep patterns, agitated, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness

Question 11

How does stress affect the cardiovascular system?

Answer 11

You are more likely to have clogged arteries and higher risk of strokes and heart attacks

Question 12

What is fight or flight? What system controls it?

Answer 12

A series of psychological changes that activate body systems providing a burst of energy to deal with a perceived threat or danger controlled by the autonomic nervous system

Question 13

Stressor

Answer 13

Events or agents in the environment that cause stress

Question 14

General adaption syndrome

Answer 14

Model used to describe the physiological changes associated with the stress response

Question 15

What is the relaxation response?

Answer 15

State of stability and balance, body functions are normal (homeostasis)

Question 16

How does stress effect mental health?

Answer 16

Contributes to psychological problems and development of illness

Question 17

Emotional IQ

Answer 17

An understanding of emotional experience, self-awareness, and sensitivity to others

Question 18

What are the two main type of addictions?

Answer 18

Physiological: tolerance
Psychological: associate substance with reduction of stress

Question 19

Why is emotional IQ important?

Answer 19

So you can recognize, name and understand emotions
Manage and control emotions
Motivation
Be socially competent

Question 20

Acute stress

Answer 20

Short term stress

Question 21

Phase 2 general adaption syndrome

Answer 21

Resistance: body works extra hard to cope

Question 22

What is mental health?

Answer 22

Absence of illness and presence of many positive characteristics

Question 23

What are phobias?

Answer 23

An intense fear of an activity or situation or object. Exposure evokes immediate anxiety.

Question 24

What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

Answer 24

Persistent, intrusive thoughts, impulses or images that cause intense anxiety or distress

Question 25

What is schizophrenia and it’s most common symptoms?

Answer 25

Characterized by disorganized and disordered thinking, perceptions, bizarre ideas, hallucinations and impaired functioning

Question 26

Phase 1 general adaption syndrome

Answer 26

Alarm: stress response triggered, immune system suppressed

Question 27

How does stress effect the immune system?

Answer 27

It gets suppressed and increases the risk of infection