Question

What factors help to determine mental health reactions to the crisis event?

Answer 1

ANSWER

A mental health crisis is defined as a non-life-threatening situation in which a person experiences an intensive behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric response triggered by a precipitating event. The person may be at risk of harm to self or others, disoriented or out of touch with reality, functionally compromised, or otherwise agitated and unable to be calmed.

If this crisis is left untreated, it could result in a mental health emergency.

Factors determining mental health to crisis level-

• Talking about suicide
• Talking about threatening behavior
• Self-injury that does not need immediate medical attention
• Alcohol or substance abuse
• Highly erratic or unusual behavior
• Eating disorders
• Not taking prescribed psychiatric medications
• Being emotionally distraught, very depressed, angry, anxious, irritable
• Paranoid thinking