1. Intro to Wellness
Mental Health

2. What is mental health?
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
It affects how we think, feel, and act.
It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.

3. Mental health problems
Many factors contribute to mental health problems, including:
Biological factors, such as genes or brain chemistry
Life experiences, such as trauma or abuse
Family history of mental health problems

4. stigma
A set of negative and often unfair beliefs that a society or group of people have about something
Social Stigma:
Characterized by prejudicial attitudes, stereotypes, and discriminating behavior directed towards individuals with mental health problems
Self-Stigma:
Perceptions of discrimination, feelings of shame, secrecy

5. Stigma of Mental Illness
Some of the harmful effects of mental illness stigma can include:
Reluctance to seek help or treatment
Lack of understanding by family, friends, or others you know
Fewer opportunities for work, school or social activities or trouble finding housing
Bullying, physical violence or harassment
The belief that you'll never be able to succeed at certain challenges or that you can't improve your situation

6. Literary depictions of Mental illness
Read “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
While reading, make notes on your sheet of text examples from the story that you consider as descriptions of symptoms, treatments, and causes of the mental illness depiction in the fictional work.

7. Depressive & mood disorders
Description
Examples
Lasts at least two weeks
Interferes with life
Marked by changes in mood, thought and behavior
Depression
Bipolar
Seasonal Affect Disorder
Mania
Depressive & mood disorders

8. Anxiety disorders Overwhelming feelings of panic and fear
description
examples
Overwhelming feelings of panic and fear
Uncontrollable obsessive thoughts
Painful, intrusive memories
Recurring nightmares
Physical symptoms such as feeling sick to your stomach, “butterflies” in your stomach, heart pounding, startling easily, and muscle tension
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Social Anxiety
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Anxiety disorders

9. description
examples
Experience severe disturbances in their eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions.
They can include severe overeating or not consuming enough food to stay healthy.
They also involve extreme concern about shape or weight.
Anorexia
Bulimia
Binge Eating
Eating disorders

10. Psychotic disorders Causes abnormal thinking and perceptions
description
example
Causes abnormal thinking and perceptions
Lose touch with reality
Suffer from delusions and hallucinations
Schizophrenia
Psychotic disorders

11. description
examples
Affects how a person acts and interacts with others, communicates, and learns
Called a "spectrum" disorder because people with ASD can have a range of symptoms
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Other