What is a mental illness?
Mental illnesses are the conditions characterized with mental impairment of a persons normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning.
MENTAL ILLNESS IS NOT A PERSONAL OR MORAL WEAKNESS.
What causes mental illnesses?
there is no specific cause but rather a cmbination of factors.
What are the symptoms of mental illnesses?
There is a variety of symptoms for many different people but some are more common than others. The strength of the symptoms varies between people. Consulting with a professional is the best step to figure it out.
symptoms may include:
STATISTICS AND FACTS
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Mental illnesses are the conditions characterized with mental impairment of a persons normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning.
MENTAL ILLNESS IS NOT A PERSONAL OR MORAL WEAKNESS.
What causes mental illnesses?
there is no specific cause but rather a cmbination of factors.
- GENETICS- they tend to run in families but it does not mean that if someone has it, you will too. The only thing it means is that there is a greater chance of you getting it than someone who doesnt have it genetically run in your family.
- BIOLOGY- some of the illnesses are linked to chemicals in the brain called neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are supposed to help the nerves in the brain communicate with each other. When there is an inbalance or absence, nerves cannot communicate with one another and messages can get lost or changed as they move through the brain. This causes symptoms and injuries/defects have also been connected with some mental illnesses.
- TRAUMA- Psychological trauma like severe emotional, physical, or sexual abuse or severe grief can trigger them. It is especially easy when they happen earlier in life.
- ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS- Combined with the risk for mental illnesses, extreme stress in the individual's environment or lives can bring on the symptoms.
What are the symptoms of mental illnesses?
There is a variety of symptoms for many different people but some are more common than others. The strength of the symptoms varies between people. Consulting with a professional is the best step to figure it out.
symptoms may include:
- confused thinking
- Long-lasting sadness or irritability
- Extreme highs and lows in mood
- Excessive fear, worrying or anxiety
- Social withdrawal
- Dramatic changes in eating or sleeping habits
- Strong feelings of anger
- Delusions or hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not really there)
- Increasing inability to cope with daily problems and activities
- Thoughts of suicide
- Denial of obvious problems
- Many unexplained physical problems
- Abuse of drugs and/or alcohol
- Abuse of drugs and/or alcohol
- Inability to cope with daily problems and activities
- Changes in sleeping and/or eating habits
- Excessive complaints of physical problems
- Defying authority, skipping school, stealing or damaging property
- Intense fear of gaining weight
- Long-lasting negative mood, often along with poor appetite and thoughts of death
- Frequent outbursts of anger
STATISTICS AND FACTS
- Mental health problems affect one in every five young people at any given time.
- An estimated two-thirds of all young people with mental health problems are not receiving the help they need.
- Less than one-third of the children under age 18 who have a serious mental health problem receive any mental health services.
- As many as 1 in every 33 children may be depressed. Depression in adolescents may be as high as 1 in 8.
- Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15- to 24-years-olds and the sixth leading cause of death for 5- to 15-year-olds.
- Schizophrenia is rare in children under age 12, but it occurs in about 3 of every 1,000 adolescents.
- Between 118,700 and 186,600 youths in the juvenile justice system have at least one mental illness.
- Of the 100,000 teenagers in juvenile detention, an estimated 60 percent have behavioral, cognitive, or emotional problems.
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