Kinesiology 2276F/G Chapter 10: Chapter-10

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2276F/G
• Professor: Craig Hall

Document Summary

Mental health a state of successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people, and the ability to adapt to change and to cope with adversity. Mental illness refers to all diagnosable mental disorders. Mental disorders health conditions that are characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behaviour associated with distress and/or impaired functioning. Anxiety pathological counterpart of normal fear, manifests by disturbances of mood, as well as of thinking, behaviour, and physiological activity. Clinical anxiety when anxiety results in behavioural and cognitive changes, when it occurs even without an eliciting event, and when the response is disproportionate and unmanageable. Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent of the mental disorders. They are characterized by different symptoms and treatments: panic disorder. Intense fear and discomfort associated with physical and mental symptoms: Sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea. Dear of dying or loss of control of emotions.