Lesson7 Healthy Mind
- Addiction- A compelling need to take a drug or engage in a
specific behavior
- How addictions affect health status:
- Harm physical health
- Jeopardize safety
- Harm relationships
- Legal Problems
- Financial Problems
Teens who are at risk for developing an addiction:
- Depressed
- Negative self-esteem
- Unmet needs
- Do not know how to have fun
- Feel guilty and ashamed
- Live in a fantasy world
- Traumatic Childhoods
- Tense and Anxious
- Difficulty expressing feelings
- Difficulty expressing anger
- Blame Others
- Seek Approval
- Want to control others
- Poor Coping skills
- Difficulty with authority figures
- Feel empty inside
- Bored
- Unable to delay gratification
- Lonely
- Deny personal problems
Types of Addictions:
- Drug Addiction
- Eating Disorders
- Exercise Addiction
- Nicotine Addiction
- Perfectionism
- Relationship
- Shopping
- Television
- Internet
- Thrill Seeking
- Work holism
Five Signs of Addiction:
- Have compelling need to take a drug or participate in a behavior
- Taking a drug or dealing with a behavior instead of dealing with it in a positive manner
- Feeling bad about oneself after taking the drug or the behavior
- Taking a drug or participating in a behavior when there are negative consequences
- Being unable to stop taking the drug or participating in the behavior
- Codependence- mental disorder in which a person denies feelings and begins to cope in harmful ways
- Enabler- a person who supports the harmful behavior for others
- Support Group: a group in which people receive help from one another to recover from an addiction
- People with Codependence:
- Deny their feelings
- Focus on fixing others problems
- Try to control other people
- Feel responsible for what other people say or do
- Seek the approval of others
- Have difficulty having fun
- Have difficulty having others care for them
- Try to protect others from harmful consequences
- Do not meet their own needs
- Avoid living their own lives
- Recovery from Codependence involves
- Developing a better sense of self
- Learning to share feelings Learning to stay focused on fixing your own problems
- Allowing others people to be responsible for their own lives
- Talking honestly about your problems
- Mental Disorders: is a mental or emotional condition that makes it difficult for a person to live in a normal way.
- The causes can be organic or functional
- Organic- caused by physical injuries and illnesses that affect the brain,(Strokes, brain tumors,accidents,alcoholism,STD’s,Menengitis)
- Functional- causes that are not physical(Environmental conditions,stress, traumatic experience, and poor coping skills
- Hand Out Mental Disorder Sheet