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    This document discusses mental health and illness from an epidemiological perspective. It notes that mental illness is common, affecting around 6 in 10 women and 4 in 10 men in Western countries during their lifetime. Mental illness can affect anyone and occurs in all societies and cultures. The document then discusses approaches to mental health including taking a holistic view considering the body, mind, spirit, and culture. It also covers classifications of mental illnesses, potential causes, diagnosis, treatment options through hospitals and community care, prevention networks, and relevant legislation regarding mental health.

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    This document discusses mental health and illness from an epidemiological perspective. It notes that mental illness is common, affecting around 6 in 10 women and 4 in 10 men in Western countries during their lifetime. Mental illness can affect anyone and occurs in all societies and cultures. The document then discusses approaches to mental health including taking a holistic view considering the body, mind, spirit, and culture. It also covers classifications of mental illnesses, potential causes, diagnosis, treatment options through hospitals and community care, prevention networks, and relevant legislation regarding mental health.

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    Mental Health and Illness

    An Epidemiological Perspective

    1
    Mental Health-Everybody’s
    Business
    • Peter Sims
    • Professor of Public Health
    medicine
    • University of Papua New
    Guinea
    • <[email protected]>

    2
    Teaching and Learning Aims
    • There is ignorance,
    superstition, stigma and
    fear around Mental Illness
    • Aetiology, pathogenesis
    diagnosis and treatment
    are imperfect.
    • There is a different
    paradigm and a less
    rigorous epidemiology
    3
    Often sad,sometimes
    mad,occasionally bad
    • The medical model is
    • insufficient
    • Diagnosis is largely
    • clinical and
    experiential

    4
    More of an art than a science
    • Treatment is
    pragmatic
    • Prevention is about the
    politics of health
    • “populations,people
    pressures, poverty”

    5
    Mental Health is a worldwide
    problem

    6
    Mental illness is common 6 in 10 women and 4 in 10 men
    in Western Europe and North America will have a
    significant mental illness during their lifetime

    Mental illness can affect any one of us

    Mental illness occurs in all societies and cultures

    7
    We are all vulnerable

    8
    A Holistic Approach
    BODY
    Arrow of Time

    CULTURE

    MIND SPIRIT
    9
    Intelligence

    IQ = 100

    IQ

    I.Q. = the Mental Age x 100


    the
    Chronological age 10
    Personality
    • Each human being is
    unique
    • We all have different
    personalities
    • My personality
    reflects genetic
    inheritance and
    Environment

    11
    Behaviour

    SUPER-EGO The Parent

    EGO The Adult

    ID The Child

    12
    The Subconscious Mind

    The Conscious

    The Subconscious

    13
    A Classification
    • Affective Disorders
    Substance abuse problems
    • Anxiety,depression,mania,obsessional disorders Drugs, alcohol

    • Schizophrenia Learning disorders


    Subnormality
    • Simple,Hebephrenic,Catatonic,paranoid

    • Organic states
    • Delirium,dementia

    • Personality Disorder
    • Abnormal personality,Psychopathy

    14
    The Classification of Mental Illness:

    The Neuroses
    Depression, Anxiety, Mania, Obsessions and compulsions
    (usually the patient retains insight and orientation; they
    experience deep distress and may commit suicide)

    The Psychoses

    Schizophrenia, puerperal psychosis


    (the patient is disorientated, deluded, and lacking in insight)

    The Dementias

    Progressive deterioration with loss of recent memory and


    deterioration of a normal personality,
    They may be primary or more commonly secondary to
    15
    another condition e.g. alcohol, stroke
    Clinical Diagnosis

    16
    The Classification of Mental Illness

    Drug Problems

    Addictive drugs, (Heroin, Cocaine, Amphetamines,) alcohol


    and drug related illness-psychosis, delirium and dementia

    Personality Disorders
    A personality and behaviour that is damaging to the individual
    and/or to society and which is not tolerated by the dominant
    culture

    Mental subnormality/learning disorders:


    Problems around intelligence and ability to learn on the basis
    of teaching and experience 17
    Aetiology
    Inheritance-Genetics/Intra-
    uterine environment Drug Abuse
    Schizophrenia,Huntington’s
    Alcohol,Heroin etc
    Upbringing Neurological diseases
    Mothering,education, MS,Brain tumour
    parenting
    Trauma/head injury Biochemistry/metabolic
    Porphyria,Diabetes
    Infections-
    HIV,Syphilis,CJD Vascular-CVA
    Nutrition/PCM 18
    Treatment and Care

    Hospital Care

    Community Care

    19
    Preventive Networks
    Church,Family, Home, Friends,
    Work

    20
    The Mental Health Act

    Compulsory Psychiatric
    Treatment
    Criminal responsibility
    Power of attorney

    21
    Mental Handicap/learning disability

    The mind of a young child in the body of an adult

    22
    Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
    Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
    Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
    And with some sweet oblivious antidote
    Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff
    Which weighs upon the heart?
    Macbeth 23

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