Nursing 3920A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: American Psychiatric Association, Anxiety Disorder, Mood Disorder
1 Apr 2016
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A state of well being in which an individual realizes his/her own abiliies, copes with stresses of life, can work producively and is able to contribute to his/her community. (who) People who are mentally healthy have tools for coping with diferent situaions and maintaining a posiive outlook remains focused, lexible, creaive in bad imes as well as good (smith and segal, 2011). Outside, acive, with people, smiling, laughing, skin is glowing. Interpret reality accurately: they know what is fantasy and what isn"t. Achieve a sense of meaning in life. A disorder in how a person thinks, acts, feels, and perceives, which causes distress, and diiculty funcioning in society. 1:5 adult canadians will sufer a mental disorder over their lifeime. Comes with the biggest sigma (it frightens people) Preconcepions of the mentally ill: potenially violent, lazy, hazy and crazy (the misconcepion of homeless people, lower educaion and income.
