Promoting Mental Illness Awareness Week 2017 Depression Panic Attacks facts Anxiety Resources Mental Health

1. What is Mental
Illness?
Do you know the symptoms?

2. What is Mental Illness?
• A medical condition that disrupts thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to
others, and daily functioning.
• Mental illness often results in diminished capacity for coping with the
ordinary demands of life.
• Mental illness is not a result of personal weakness, lack of character, or poor
upbringing.
• Mental illness is treatable: Most people diagnosed with a serious mental
illness, can experience relief from their symptoms by actively participating in
an individual treatment plan.

3. When an individual has a mental health
concern--
• Discuss it with a doctor, who may refer the person to a mental health
professional
• Don't be surprised, but 1 in 4 people has a mental illness
•A mental health crisis can happen to anyone
•Mental illness requires treatment just like any other illness
•Mental health is essential to physical health
•Physical illness can affect mental health
•Quality mental health treatment is available in everyone's community

4. Major Mental Illnesses include the
following:
Major Depression
• Loss of interest or loss of pleasure in all activities
• Change in appetite or weight.
• Sleep disturbances.
• Feeling agitated or feeling slowed down.
• Fatigue.
• Feelings of low self-worth, guilt or shortcomings.
• Difficulty concentrating or making decisions.
• Here are more symptoms: . NAMI Symptoms of Depression.
• Take this interactive quiz to find out if you have depression.
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5. Generalized Anxiety Disorder
People with generalized anxiety disorder display excessive anxiety or worry for
months and face several anxiety-related symptoms. Generalized anxiety disorder
symptoms include:
• Restlessness or feeling wound-up or on edge
• Being easily fatigued
• Difficulty concentrating or having their minds go blank
• Irritability
• Muscle tension
• Difficulty controlling the worry
• Sleep problems (difficulty falling or staying asleep or restless, unsatisfying sleep)

6. Panic Disorder
People with panic disorder have recurrent unexpected panic attacks, which are
sudden periods of intense fear that may include palpitations, pounding heart, or
accelerated heart rate; sweating; trembling or shaking; sensations of shortness
of breath, smothering, or choking; and feeling of impending doom. Panic
disorder symptoms include:
• Sudden and repeated attacks of intense fear
• Feelings of being out of control during a panic attack
• Intense worries about when the next attack will happen
• Fear or avoidance of places where panic attacks have occurred in the past

7. Social Anxiety Disorder
People with social anxiety disorder (sometimes called “social phobia”) have a
marked fear of social or performance situations in which they expect to feel
embarrassed, judged, rejected, or fearful of offending others. See the next slide
for the symptoms.

8. Social anxiety disorder symptoms include:
• Feeling highly anxious about being with other people and having a hard time
talking to them
• Feeling very self-conscious in front of other people and worried about
feeling humiliated, embarrassed, or rejected, or fearful of offending others
• Being very afraid that other people will judge them
• Worrying for days or weeks before an event where other people will be
• Staying away from places where there are other people
• Having a hard time making friends and keeping friends
• Blushing, sweating, or trembling around other people
• Feeling nauseous or sick to your stomach when other people are around

9. Resources for Help for Mental Illnesses
Seek immediate assistance if you think you, your friend, or family member is
in danger of harming yourself or themselves.
Call the National Suicide Prevention Line at 1.800.273.TALK (8255)
If you'd rather chat, here is the
link: http://chat.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/LifelineChat.aspx
The Bars Family Foundation list of
resources: https://barsfamily.org/resources/
Veterans Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255. Press 1.

10. Resources for Slide Show
hhttps://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/index.shtml retrieved 09/22/17
Screening for Depression Quiz. Based on Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-
9) Developed by Drs. Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke,
and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc.
No permission required to reproduce, translate, display, or
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learn/screenings/screening-depression retrieved 9/22/17
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9/22/17
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