National Mental Health Awareness Month

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How we feel and the factors that influence mood and emotion are explored in this upbeat, animation-driven program. Viewers learn some symptoms and causes of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues, and the many ways in which people cope with these challenges. The concept of stigma is also examined, including a look at how negative attitudes toward those with mental illness may be changed.

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For those who have never faced deep-rooted emotional or psychological problems, it can be difficult to see why maintaining mental health requires more than the capabilities of any one individual. While personal accountability remains an important step toward wellness, the complex demands of society do contribute to mental illness and create obstacles to healing. This program examines mental health at the personal level and in a social context. It discusses key processes for recovering and maintaining mental well-being; helpful information concerning depression and drug and alcohol abuse; and the importance of diet, exercise, meditation, social interaction, and community resources and structures.

Like physical health, mental health needs to be actively nurtured—particularly as the tempo and complexity of modern living continues to increase. This program focuses on the subject of mental health at the personal level, offering suggestions on how to nourish—and, when necessary, reestablish—a sense of well-being. Maintaining Mental Health also discusses the crucial role community groups play in providing resources that encourage mental health maintenance.

In this program, three consumers of mental health services describe their experiences with the processes of diagnosis, labelling, hospitalization, and medication. Their insights can assist helpers in understanding their lived experience.

This video seminar discusses how food, sleep, exercise, and stress affect mental function. It considers underlying factors of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and ADHD; discusses how fats, protein, carbohydrates, and minerals affect mental health; and teaches how to recognize when the problems are caused by other issues. Presenter Dr. Leslie Korn examines non-pharmaceutical interventions and integrative interventions for mental health issues.

The experience of the family members and spouses in this program reflects that of thousands of Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers who struggle daily with the heartfelt conflict of love and obligation. This program presents examples of caregivers who have learned to cope effectively with these stresses, restoring balance in their own lives. The importance of caregiver support groups and other outlets for the discussion of problems is closely examined.

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Though aging has its challenges, depression and its frequent companion, substance abuse, need not be among them. This program dispels the myth that there is something inherently depressing about aging. It explores the complex relationship between depression, alcohol, and substance abuse, showing how knowledge of symptoms, family support, and early treatment can restore the capacity for pleasure and contentment in most seniors’ lives.

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Jacob has spent a great deal of his teenage years incarcerated. As a self-mutilator, his case both perplexes and disturbs those who care for his rehabilitation. He reveals for the first time a childhood filled with abuse, attempted murder, and total abandonment. Observing the same case of Shauntee from Principals of De-escalation: Shauntee (item #52362), counselors offer perspectives on working with juvenile offenders having mental health issues and tendencies toward self-harm.

Even in the best of times, we all experience some anxiety. But millions of Americans suffer from major anxiety disorders. This program examines two of the most common, panic with agoraphobia and generalized anxiety disorder, and shows how psychologists are making headway in treating them.

"Quiet desperation," is how millions of Americans describe their lives. They are suffering from depression, the most common mental illness in our society. This program follows the lives of four adults in their prime years. We hear about their fears and emotional pain, their thoughts of suicide. The best part of the program comes when they explain how they overcame depression, in ways that others can learn from.

What is abnormality? Using the case studies of two young women—one who has depression, one who has an anxiety disorder—as a springboard, this program presents three psychological perspectives on mental disorder. Section one considers it as a bodily disease, identifying underlying assumptions of the biomedical model and illustrating the treatments it offers. Section two looks at it as a disease of the mind, developing the view that the origins of some mental disorders may lie in people’s experiences. And section three outlines the basis of the constructionist perspective and the idea that mental disorder is socially defined.