Do You Have Any Of These 17 Signs? You Could Have A Mental Illness.

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Cope with your BPD symptoms using my BPD Card Deck: The BPD Card Deck: 50 Ways to Balance Emotions and Live Well with Borderline Personality Disorder. Available at: www.shorturl.at/jBHJV Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at: shorturl.at/bxB05 In this video we’re going to go over the 17 common signs of mental illness in adults, adolescents, and young children. These symptoms are things everyone experiences at different time, but they become a part of mental health illnesses when they are intense, prolonged, and cause socioeconomic dysfunction. Learning about these symptoms in yourself or your adolescent or young children will help you stop them, so you can seek out appropriate treatment. 1. Extreme worrying or fear 2. Feeling extremely sad or down 3. Disorganized thinking or difficulties concentrating and learning 4. Intense mood changes, including overwhelming “highs” or feelings of euphoria 5. Sustained or intense feelings of irritability or anger 6. Avoiding friends and social activities 7. Difficulties understanding or relating to other people 8. Changes in sleeping habits or feeling tired and low energy 9. Changes in eating habits such as increased hunger or lack of appetite 10. Changes in sex drive 11. Difficulty distinguishing reality (delusions or hallucinations, in which a person experiences and senses things that don't exist in objective reality) 12. Lack of ability to recognize changes in one’s own feelings, behavior or personality (“lack of insight” or lack of ability to perceive the realities of one's own condition) 13. Overuse of alcohol or drugs 14. Multiple physical complaints without obvious causes (such as headaches, stomach aches, vague and ongoing “aches and pains”) 15. Thinking or planning self-harm 16. An intense distress of weight gain or concern with appearance 17. Lack of ability to carry out daily activities or handle daily problems and stress Mental health conditions can also begin to develop in those before adolescence. Because they’re still learning how to identify and talk about thoughts and emotions, their most observable symptoms are behavioral. Symptoms in children may include the following, begin at 26:32: • Changes in school performance • Extreme worry or anxiety, for instance fighting to avoid bed or school • Hyperactive behavior • Recurrent nightmares • Recurrent disobedience or aggression • Recurrent temper tantrums National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ International Suicide Prevention: https://www.iasp.info/ Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and a multi-award winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 15 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence. He has published several articles in these areas and is the author of: Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment. Available at: https://www.drdfox.com/books The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD. Available at: https://goo.gl/LQEgy1 Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner): https://goo.gl/BLRkFy Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox: 55 Practical Treatment Techniques for Clients, Their Parents & Their Children (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner):: https://goo.gl/sZYhym The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders: https://goo.gl/ZAVe9v Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com). Videos edited by Emil Christopher: [email protected] Thank you for your attention and I hope you enjoy my videos and find them helpful and subscribe. I always welcome topic suggestions and comments. 00:00 Introduction 01:32 What is worry and fear 01:46 Extreme worry and fear 02:13 Extremely sad or down 03:48 Disorganized thinking 07:55 Irritation or anger? 09:28 Avoiding friends and social activities 10:37 Difficulty relating to others 12:07 Sleep deprivation 12:42 Changes in sleep 13:59 Sleep habits 15:10 Changes in eating habits 15:23 Changes in sex drive 16:34 Difficulty distinguishing reality 17:35 Lack of insight 18:49 Overuse of alcohol 19:15 Physical complaints 21:03 Treating mental illness 26:29 Behavioral indicators