Understanding Mental Illness Types
Here are the questions with multiple-choice options and the answers:
1. Which of the following mental illnesses is characterized by extreme mood swings
that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression)?
• Psychosis
• Bipolar Disorder
• Anxiety Disorder
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Answer: Bipolar Disorder
2. Conditions that affect the mind where there has been some sort of loss of contact
with reality
• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Psychosis
• Schizophrenia
Answer: Psychosis
3. What is "For others with loss of reality, speech may be organized, and he/she may
be able to respond appropriately to direct questions, but longer dialogues with them
may reveal his or her delusions or false beliefs that persist in spite of evidence to the
contrary."?
• Psychosis Verbal Indicator
• Psychosis Nonverbal Indicator
• Depression Verbal Indicator
• Depression Nonverbal Indicator
Answer: Psychosis Verbal Indicator
4. Which of the following is a nonverbal indicator of psychosis?
• Odd or bizarre behavior
• Lethargic
Here are the questions with multiple-choice options and the answers:
1. Which of the following mental illnesses is characterized by extreme mood swings
that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression)?
• Psychosis
• Bipolar Disorder
• Anxiety Disorder
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Answer: Bipolar Disorder
2. Conditions that affect the mind where there has been some sort of loss of contact
with reality
• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Psychosis
• Schizophrenia
Answer: Psychosis
3. What is "For others with loss of reality, speech may be organized, and he/she may
be able to respond appropriately to direct questions, but longer dialogues with them
may reveal his or her delusions or false beliefs that persist in spite of evidence to the
contrary."?
• Psychosis Verbal Indicator
• Psychosis Nonverbal Indicator
• Depression Verbal Indicator
• Depression Nonverbal Indicator
Answer: Psychosis Verbal Indicator
4. Which of the following is a nonverbal indicator of psychosis?
• Odd or bizarre behavior
• Lethargic
