Kinesiology 2276F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Mental Disorder, Health Promotion, Personality Disorder
4 Dec 2018
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"a state of successful performance for mental health function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people, and the ability to adapt to change and to cope with adversity" "health conditions that are characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behaviour (or some combination thereof) associated with distress and/or impaired functioning. Categories: mood disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, personality disorders, psychotic disorders, substance related disorders, cognitive and developmental disorders. Mental health problems: signs and symptoms of insufficient intensity or duration to meet the criteria for any mental disorder, but are sufficient to warrant active efforts in health promotion, prevention and treatment. "pathological counterpart of normal fear, manifested by disturbances of mood, as well as thinking, behaviour, and physiological activity" physiological activity" Anxiety is more than chronic stress and increased arousal. Perception and concern over the threat (stressor) are disproportionate to the actual threat. Cognitive and behavioural actions that are undertaken to avoid the symptoms of an anxiety attack.
