Personal Development - Grade 11

2. 1.One person in every
100 persons develops
schizophrenia.

3. 2. A person who has one
or both parents with
mental illness is more
likely to develop mental
illness.

4. 3. Mental illness
is contagious.

5. 4. Mental illness
can be cured with
willpower.

6. 5. People with
mental illness
tend to be violent.

7. It is the psychological state of
someone who is functioning at a
satisfactory level of emotional
and behavioral adjustment.
It’s the way your thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors affect
your life.

9. People with anorexia have
a real fear of weight gain and
a distorted view of their body
size and shape.
Refers to weight loss that
occurs from not eating.

10. Eating a lot of food and
then trying to get rid of the
calories by making
themselves throw up, using
some type of medication or
laxatives, or exercising
excessively , or some
combination of these.

11. It is similar to anorexia.
People might binge eat (eat
to excess) and then try to
compensate in extreme ways,
such as making themselves
throw up or exercising all the
time, to prevent weight gain.

12. Refers to eating large
amounts of food over a
short period of time
followed by an attempt to
get rid of the food. This
getting rid of food is called
“purging”.

15. It is pretty common
and can make it hard to
focus and sit still.
It makes it hard to
finish things, and
makes thought jump
around.

17. Feelings of anxious
and nervous suddenly
and often.
Panic attacks –
strong sudden feelings
of stress or fear.

19. It changes the way the
brain understands the
world.
Having a hard time
talking about their
feelings, understanding
people’s actions, and
being social.

21. It changes the
way people feel
emotions.
Their emotions
can go from happy
to sad very quickly.

23. It makes people
very sad all the time.
It makes people
feel very sad every
day, or feel that
nobody loves them.

25. It exists when a
person’s thoughts and
behaviors are focused too
much on food and body
weight.
The person may worry
about being “too fat”.

27. People feel
scared even if
they are safe and
there is nothing to
be afraid of.

29. It makes it hard to
people to know what is
real and what is not real.
It can make the brain
think it sees or hears
things that aren’t really
there.