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- | ====== Mental Health Hacking ====== | ||
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- | ===== Goals of the Project ===== | ||
- | This page have for goal add miscellaneous information about mental health and " | ||
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- | ===== What is Mental Health ===== | ||
- | Mental health refers to our cognitive, and/or emotional wellbeing - it is all about how we think, feel and behave. Mental health, if somebody has it, can also mean an absence of a mental disorder. Your mental health can affect your daily life, relationships and even your physical health. Mental health also includes a person' | ||
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- | ===== Chronic Stress ===== | ||
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- | Chronic stress increases the risk of developing health problems including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and a weakened immune system. Chronic stress also affects a person’s mental health. Many studies show a correlation between stress and the development of mood disorders such as anxiety disorders and depression.According to the American Psychological Association’s latest stress survey, 66 percent of people regularly experience physical symptoms of stress, and 63 percent experience psychological symptoms. | ||
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- | ===== Depression ===== | ||
- | Depression is a condition in which a person feels discouraged, | ||
- | ===== Psychotic disorders ===== | ||
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- | People with psychotic disorders lose contact with reality and experience a range of extreme symptoms that usually includes: | ||
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- | **Hallucinations** hearing or seeing things that are not real, such as voices and **Delusions** believing things that are not true and between psychotic disorders include: | ||
- | === Schizophrenia === | ||
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- | The term schizophrenia refers to a type of psychosis in which a person experiences some psychotic symptoms for at least six months, with a significant decline in the person’s ability to function. The symptoms and length of the illness vary from person to person. | ||
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- | === Paranoid schizophrenia === | ||
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- | Paranoid schizophrenia, | ||
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- | === Schizophreniform disorder === | ||
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- | This type of psychosis is the same as schizophrenia except that the symptoms have lasted for less than six months. The illness may completely resolve or may persist and progress to other psychiatric diagnoses, such as schizophrenia, | ||
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- | === Schizoaffective disorder === | ||
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- | During this type of psychosis, a person will experience symptoms of schizophrenia and symptoms of a mood disturbance, | ||
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- | === Depression with psychotic features === | ||
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- | Sometimes a person will experience a severe depression with symptoms of psychosis without the mania associated with bipolar disorder. This type of depression is referred to as a psychotic depression or depression with psychotic features. | ||
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- | === Brief psychotic disorder === | ||
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- | Sometimes symptoms of psychosis come on suddenly and, in some cases, are triggered in response to a major stress in the person’s life, such as a death in the family. This type of psychosis usually lasts less than a month. | ||
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- | === Delusional disorder === | ||
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- | This type of psychosis consists of very strong and fixed beliefs in things that are not true. Changes in perception, such as hallucinations, | ||
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- | === What schizophrenia is not === | ||
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- | **What schizophrenia is not.** A popular misconception is that schizophrenia means a "split personality." | ||
- | === The myth of schizophrenia === | ||
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- | * The myth of schizophrenia and violence, that people with schizophrenia are inherently violent, persists. Unfortunately, | ||
- | * Studies show that people with drug and alcohol addictions, or even recreational users, are two times more likely to participate in acts of violence and crime than a typical person diagnosed with schizophrenia | ||
- | * People with schizophrenia are violent, People with schizophrenia are lazy or irresponsible, | ||
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- | ====== Source, Links, Information now ====== | ||
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- | ===== Nudz - National institute of mental health Czech Republic | ||
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- | ===== Schizophrenia research society ===== | ||
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