Mental diseases

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MENTAL
DISEASES
Mª Ángeles Martínez Quero
Daniel Maján Jiménez
Antonio Marco Mora Hervás
Sandra Paz López

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INDEX
PROLOGUE: What is mental illness?
THE MOST COMMON MENTAL DISEASES
1. Depression
2. Phobias
THE DEADLIEST MENTAL DISEASES
3. Eating disorders
4. Schyzophrenia
THE STRANGEST MENTAL DISEASES
5. Cotard psyndrome
6. Alien hand psyndrome
EPILOGUE: How to help someone with mental illness?

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WHAT IS
MENTAL
ILLNESS?

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1. DEPRESSION
• It is one of the most common mental
illnesses.
• It is estimated that 350 million people
suffer from this disease worldwide.
• Depression affects more women than
men. In addition, one in five pregnant
women suffers from depression after
childbirth.

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2. PHOBIAS
• The most widespread phobias are social phobia (fear of
being watched and judged by others), amaxophobia (fear
of driving), aerophobia (fear of airplanes), claustrophobia
or agoraphobia (fear of spaces closed and open,
respectively) and necrophobia (fear of death).
• The most common physical symptoms are: thoughts
distorted and disproportionate to the stimulus, abnormal
sweating, breathing, acceleration of the heartbeat, tremors
and chills.

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3. EATING DISORDER:
ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA
• They are two of the deadliest mental illnesses.
• About 5 million men and women in the United States
have anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders.
• According to a study published in the British Journal
of Psychiatry, anorexia nervosa is more common
among people born in spring, specifically between
March and June

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4. SCHIZOPHRENIA
• According to a study carried out by the University of
Oxford, the life expectancy of people with
schizophrenia can be reduced by between 10 and 20
years.
• Vanderbilt University in Tennessee (USA) conducted
an investigation in which it concluded that babies
born in the months of January, February and March
are more likely to have schizophrenia in the future.

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5. COTARD
PSYNDROME
• It is one of the strangest mental illnesses out there,
as only a few cases have been documented
worldwide.
• This disease is so named because it was the French
neurologist Jules Cotard who detected the disorder
in 1880
• In some cases, the patient becomes so convinced
that he is not alive that he eventually dies of
starvation.

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6. ALIEN HAND
PSYNDROME
• Although the patient suffering from this disease
is not aware of what his alien hand does, this
hand can perform very complicated acts, such
as buttoning and unbuttoning a shirt.
• The movements of the alien hand can attack the
patient himself.
• These movements tend to increase in situations
of fatigue or anxiety

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HOW TO HELP
SOMEONE WITH
MENTAL ILLNESS?