Mental health complications and Recovery Discussion 2022

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Introduction
Australian Government Department of Health (2018) stated that the mental health of a person
affects their thought process. This thought process include think approaches of the people
suffering from the disorder, their behavior and how they relate with others and with the
society. Mental illness covers a broad level of spectrum of disorder and different disorders
vary in their spectrum of severity. Nearly half of the Australian population who are aged
between 16 to 85 years and this include 7.3 million people suffer from mental illness at
certain point of time in their lifespan. The common conditions associated with the mental
health complications include anxiety, depression and substance abuse disorders (use of
alcohol). Nearly one quarter of the Australians (16 to 85 years) 4.2 million people pass
through the anxiety condition during their entire life-time and the women are more likely to
experience mental health complications like depression and anxiety in comparison to men
(Australian Government Department of Health 2018). The following assignment deals with
the analysis of symptoms and the risk factors of the symptoms of three different mental
health conditions: psychosis, depression and mania. This will be followed by the comparative
analysis of the symptoms of this mental health depression. The second part or part B of the
assignment will cover the importance of the recovery oriented mental health approach in
related to depression, psychosis and maniac. At the end, the essay will discuss type of care
that the mental health care consumers expect from the primary, secondary and tertiary mental
health care providers, along with legal its implications apply
Typical symptoms of psychosis, depression and mania
Psychosis is defined as a mental health condition under which people loose contact
with the reality. This might include hearing or seeing things that other people cannot hear or
see (hallucinations). People suffering from psychosis also believe things that are not true

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actually (delusions) (National Health Service or NHS 2019). Thus, the two main symptoms
of psychosis are hallucinations and delusions. In hallucinations persons sees, hears and in
certain cases feels, smells and tastes things that do not exist outside their state of mind.
However, they can feel real to the person affected by them (National Health Service or NHS
2019). One of the common of hallucination includes hearing of voices. Delusions are defined
as condition where person has strong beliefs that are not shared by others. A common form of
delusions among people suffering from psychosis is constant thought process regarding
someone is conducting conspiracy in order to harm them. The combination of delusional and
hallucinating behavior might lead to the generation of significant level of distress or change
in behavior. Experiencing the symptoms of psychosis is mainly referred as having psychotic
episodes (National Health Service or NHS 2019).
Depression is a common form of mental illness. Nearly 264 million people throughout
the world are affected with this mental health complication. Depression can never is confused
with mood swings and other short-lived emotional outbursts that create challenge in everyday
life (World Health Organization or WHO, 2019). Depending on the severity and diverse
range of symptoms, a depressive episode can be categorized as mild, moderate and severe.
Individuals with mild depressive episodes will experience difficulties in conducting ordinary
work and other social activities. However, they will not stop activities of daily living. During
severe depressive episodes, it is unlikely that the affected individual will conduct social work
and other basic domestic activities (WHO 2019). Recurrent depressive disorder involves
repeated depressive episodes that are characterized by mood swings and loss of interest in
daily life, fatigue and diminished activity. Bipolar affective disorder is a type of depression
that consists of both depressive and maniac episodes that the separated by periods of normal
mood. Maniac episodes are characterized by elevated moor, high irritability, inflated self-
esteem, insomnia and pressure of speech (WHO 2019). Other common symptoms of

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depression include anxiety, loss of appetite and a constant feeling of worthlessness and poor
level of concentration. Other common symptoms include persistent low mood, a constant
feeling of hopelessness, feeling of restlessness, loss of appetite along with the development of
insomnia. These symptoms however, do not match with psychosis (National Institute for
Mental Health. 2019).
Psychotic depression occurs when the person has severe depression along with the
presence of psychosis. This depressive stated of mind is characterized by false fixed beliefs
(delusions) or hearing of voice (hallucinations). Thus, psychotic depression shares certain
common symptoms with that of psychosis. Persistent depressive disorder (popularly known
as dysthymia) It generates depressed mood that can last as long as two years National
(Institute for Mental Health. (2019).
Mania cannot be categorized as a significant mental health complication. Rather
mania is regarded as a significant symptom of bipolar disorder. Under mania, a person feels
either extremely high or is over-reactive. It occurs during the main phase of the bi-polar
disorder there occurs expressed of mania that is characterized by sudden feeing of extreme
happiness, ambitious plan or ideas and spending gamut money against certain things that
want cannot afford nor has no specific need (NHS 2020). Thus, it can be said that apart from
depression and psychosis, mania is not a disease condition, it is a symptom. Increases in the
severity of depression lead to the expression of psychosis symptoms. Depression under
extreme condition is also associated with self-harming attitude however the same is not
prevalent in psychosis and mania (NHS 2020).
Risk issues of psychosis, depression and mania
Chouinard et al. (2019) stated that schizophrenia and other psychosis spectrum
disorders do not develop de novo. It mainly emerges from prodromal stages. Slotema et al.