- suicide awareness
- mental illnesses
- anxiety
- depression
- different kinds of treatments
Mental disorder: something that affects a person's thinking, emotional state, and behavior
Distributes the person's ability to:
- work or attend school
- carry out daily activities
- engage in satisfying relationships
How to diagnose:
- doctors go inside of a book to classify mental disorders
Anxiety: a persistent or severe fear or worry that is difficult to manage and interferes with a person's quality of life
it's also: a normal reaction to stress and even beneficial at times
Symptoms:
- must be present for 6+ months; there are different types
Emotional:
- feeling of apprehension or dread
- trouble concentrating
- anticipating the worst
- irritability
- restlessness
- mind blank
- watching for signs of danger; always on edge
Physical:
- pounding heart rate
- sweating
- shortness of breath
- muscle tension
- fatigue
- insomnia
- dizziness
When is it a problem?
- when the fear or worry is constant/overwhelming
- interferes with your relationships and activities
Types of Anxiety:
- generalized
- social
- specific phobias
- panic disorder
- OCD
- PTSD
Causes?
- biological reasons
- genetics, brain chemistry etc
- life circumstances
- significant losses
- divorce
- stressful situations
- high expectations put on you
- unresolved family conflict
- environmental
- abuse
- trauma
- high stress
- violence
Facts:
- 32% of teens will experience anxiety and 8.3% of those have severe impairment
- average age of onset is 6 years old
Depression: depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in daily activities for two or more weeks
Symptoms:
- depressed mood or irritable most of the day
- decreased interest/pleasure
- significant weight change
- change in sleep: insomnia or hypersomnia
- fatigue or loss of energy
- guilt/worthlessness
- difficult to concentrate
- suicidal
Sadness and Depression are DIFFERENT
Sadness:
- feeling bad about something in particular
- when we have adjusted, sadness goes away
Depression:
- affects thinking, emotions, perceptions etc
Causes?
- hereditary
- having a family member with depression can increase risk
- brain chemistry
- imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain
- environment
- surroundings
- life experiences
- stress
- medications
- alcohol/drugs
Without treatment, symptoms can get worse and other problems can occur such as:
- problems at school
- running away
- social isolation
- low self esteem
- reckless behavior
- violence
- self harm behaviors
- drug/alcohol abuse
Facts:
- 20% of teens will experience depression before adulthood
- teens are 12 times more likely to commit suicide if they have depression
- teenage girls report suffering from depression more often than boys
- teenage boys are less likely to seek help or recognizing it
Suicide: the intent to kill oneself
- second leading cause of death for 10-24 year old's
- people who are suicidal are individuals who do not see a way out
- those who die from suicide are frequently undiagnosed, untreated or under-treated
Warning Signs!!!
- threats to kill oneself
- current talk of suicide: can be direct or indirect
- making a plan for suicide
- strong wish to die/preoccupied with death
- anxious and depressed, not sleeping
- abusing substances
Behavioral:
- previous attempt
- gun/stocking pills
- depression
- putting personal affairs in order
- giving away prized possessions
Situational:
- expelled from school/fired from job
- family problems
- loss of any major relationship
- death of someone close
- diagnoses of a serious or terminal illness
- financial problems
- victim of assault/bullying
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Question...a person about suicide
Persuade...the person to get help
Refer...the person to get appropriate resources
if you call the police, you can request for MST: these are mental health clinicians that will come with police officers
CALL 911 WHEN:
- has a weapon
- expresses immediate intent to harm self or others
- tells you that they have overdosed on pills or other drugs
- posts on social media threatening suicide
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