1. By Yash Gandhi, Mariah Kock, Emily Geisler, and Samuel Saldinger
Mental Illnesses
By Yash Gandhi, Mariah Kock, Emily Geisler, and Samuel Saldinger

2. What is Mental Illness?
Mental Illnesses are disorders that affect a persons thought, emotions, and behavior/attitudes.
Paranoia
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Anxiety Disorder
Depression
Bipolar disorder
Etc…
1 out of every people 6 have a mental illnesses

3. Causes of Mental Illness
Stressful Events
Things like, Bad grades, Family Issues, having a disease that is life-threatening, poor nutrition or substance abuse. (Drugs, Alcohol, etc…)
Inherited Traits
Some mental illnesses run in families, passed on by genes.

4. Anxiety Disorders Causes constant worry, nervousness, or panic.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Some people develop everyday rituals
Such as excessive counting or washing
Can cause unhappiness and depression
How to treat?
Medicines and counseling usually helps treat people with OCD successfully
Types of people with OCD
Washers- afraid of contamination
Checkers- constantly checking things (lights out, fan off, ect.) that they associate with danger
Counters and arrangers- obsessed with order and symmetry
Hoarders- fear something bad is going to happen if they throw away anything

5. Anxiety Disorders Cont.
Panic Disorder
Causes people to have brief periods of extreme anxiety
Panic attacks
During panic attacks people may feel like they are having a heart attack.
People with panic disorder may experience fast heart rate, difficulty breathing, shaking and lightheadedness
How to treat?
Counseling and medicine is also successful

6. Phobias Phobias are also a part of anxiety disorders
Panic attacks that are triggered by specific things are called phobias
Common phobias include
Animals, spiders, flying insects, etc.
Social phobia
A disorder that causes people to fear social situations
Such as meeting new people or giving a speech
Social phobia could cause people to have panic attacks and may cause them to have awkward social skills

7. Mood disorders
Illness in which people have uncontrollable mood changes
Bipolar Mood Disorder
is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
also known as manic-depressive illness
develops in a person’s late teens or early adult years
May experience hallucinations or delusions
Hearing voices when no one is there
May believe that they are famous
Depression
A disorder that causes a mood of extreme sadness and hopelessness

8. Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a disorder in which a person breaks form reality in several different ways.
People do not always show same symptoms
Most express little emotion
People have hallucinations or delusions
Such as someone telling them to do something
Often feel paranoia
Paranoia is the belief that people what to harm someone
Unorganized thinking
Could lead to nonsense speech
Periods where body is frozen in position
How to treat?
Usually requires long-term counseling

9. Conclusion
Even though people with mental disorders may require lots of attention and help they can often live happy lives despite their problems.

10. Bibliography
Allen, Katy Z. Holt Decisions for Health. Austin, TX: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Print.