BPK 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Peer Pressure, Asexuality, Sexual Intercourse

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Emotional & psychological health: emotional: feelings, moods, psychological: thoughts. Ability to develop rational strategies for living. Maslow hierarchy of needs - related to mental wellness. Self-actualization: people who fully realized their mental and emotional potential in life. *if we don"t have physiological and safety need met, then our mental health is bad. Mental disorder: a persistent disturbance/dysfunction in behaviour, thoughts, or emotions that cause distress and impairment. Historically conceptualized as a result of religious or supernatural forces, possession by demons or spirits; often cruelly punished. Views now largely replaced by the medical model: disorders seen to have biological and environmental issues, have defined symptoms diagnoses, treatments. 1 in 4 people experience a mental disorder in their lifetime: anxiety (12% of canadians, phobic (12% of canadians, depressive/bp/mood disorders (15-20%, suicide, psychotic disorders (schizophrenia, 1%) Gad: defined: chronic irrational worry, nothing specific triggers it, symptoms: agitation, fatigue, sadness, nausea, trembling, muscle tension, headache, treatment: benzodiazepeines and antidepressants, ~6% north americans.

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