🟦 Slide 1: Title Slide
Module 4: Severe Mental Illness (SMI)
- Understanding serious mental health conditions
- Mental Health First Aid Training
🟦 Slide 2: Learning Goals
By the end of this module, you will:
- Understand what severe mental illness means
- Learn common severe mental health conditions
- Recognise key symptoms
- Understand treatment and support needs
🟦 Slide 3: What is Severe Mental Illness (SMI)?
Severe mental illness means:
👉 A long-term mental health condition
👉 That affects daily life
👉 That can be very serious
SMI can affect:
- Thinking 🧠
- Feelings 💙
- Behaviour 👣
- Daily activities
🟦 Slide 4: Why SMI is Important
SMI can:
- Make daily life difficult
- Affect relationships
- Affect work or school
- Require long-term support
👉 People may need ongoing care and treatment
🟦 Slide 5: Examples of Severe Mental Illness
Severe mental illnesses include:
- Schizophrenia
- Bipolar disorder
- Major depression
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
🟦 Slide 6: Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia
Symptoms can include:
- Hallucinations (seeing or hearing things)
- Delusions (false beliefs)
- Confused thinking
👉 Can affect how a person sees reality
🟦 Slide 7: Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Symptoms include:
- Extreme high mood (mania)
- Extreme low mood (depression)
👉 Mood can change quickly or over time
🟦 Slide 8: Major Depression
Major Depressive Disorder
Symptoms include:
- Very low mood
- Loss of interest
- Feeling hopeless
- Suicidal thoughts
👉 A serious and common condition
🟦 Slide 9: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Borderline Personality Disorder
Symptoms include:
- Strong emotions
- Fear of abandonment
- Unstable relationships
- Changes in self-image
🟦 Slide 10: Schizoaffective Disorder
A mix of:
- Psychosis (like schizophrenia)
- Mood problems (like depression or mania)
👉 Symptoms affect thinking and mood
🟦 Slide 11: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Symptoms include:
- Repetitive thoughts (obsessions)
- Repetitive actions (compulsions)
👉 These can feel uncontrollable
🟦 Slide 12: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Symptoms include:
- Flashbacks
- Nightmares
- Avoiding reminders of trauma
- Anxiety
🟦 Slide 13: Key Features of SMI
Severe mental illness:
- Affects daily life
- Needs long-term support
- Can be very serious
- Needs treatment and care
🟦 Slide 14: Impact on Life
SMI can affect:
- Work or school
- Relationships
- Physical health
- Daily activities
👉 Support is very important
🟦 Slide 15: Treatment and Support
People may need:
- Medication 💊
- Therapy 🗣️
- Support services 🤝
- Community support 🌍
🟦 Slide 16: Important Message
👉 People with SMI can recover and live well
👉 Support and treatment make a difference
👉 Early help is important
🟦 Slide 17: Mental Health First Aid Role
As a Mental Health First Aider:
- Recognise signs
- Listen without judgment
- Stay calm
- Encourage professional help
- Support safely
🟦 Slide 18: When to Get Help
Get help if someone:
- Is in danger
- Talks about suicide
- Is confused or out of touch with reality
- Cannot care for themselves
🟦 Slide 19: Crisis Support
If there is a crisis:
- Call emergency services
- Call or text 988 (USA)
- Stay with the person (if safe)
🟦 Slide 20: Key Learning Summary
👉 Severe mental illness is serious
👉 It affects daily life
👉 Treatment is needed
👉 Support is important
👉 MHFA can help save lives 💙
🟦 Slide 21: Final Message
👉 Everyone deserves support
👉 Mental health matters
👉 You can help someone
🎓 Trainer Notes (for you)
- Use simple explanations
- Allow questions after each section
- Use real-life examples
- Be sensitive when discussing symptoms
- Emphasise support, not diagnosis
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