Mental Health 1
A wide range of conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, behavior, or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living.
What is mental illness?
Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.
What is mental health?
Isolation, loss of interest in activities, suicidal ideations, and changes in sleeping/ eating patterns, could all be symptoms of?
Depression
Name 2 ways to treat mental illness.
Therapy, medication
This is a type of therapy that involves community and peer support
What is group therapy?
Symptoms of this may include flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
State 3 characteristics of good mental health.
Active listener, feels good about themselves, gets along/ feels comfortable around others, maintains healthy relationships, expresses emotions in healthy ways, optimistic/hopeful, adapts to change, takes care of self (self-care, hygiene, adequate sleep ect.) uses stress management techniques and coping skills effectively.
A set of negative and often unfair beliefs, stereotypes, or labels that a society or group of people have about something.
What is a stigma
Name 3 healthy coping skills.
- Reading/Writing/Drawing/Painting
- Listening to Music
- Spending Time with Friends/Family
- Go for a Walk
A form of psychotherapy that involves free self-expression though painting, drawing, modeling, music, and more
What is Creative Art Therapy?
What is OCD? OCD is characterized by excessive/unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead to repetitive behaviors (compulsions).
This disorder causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs and lows. These distinct periods are called mood episodes.
What is Bipolar? Emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression).
1 in ___ U.S. adults experience a serious mental illness each year.
What is 20?
Describe mindfulness and give an example of how it can be used.
Mindfulness is a quality or mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations and is used as a therapeutic technique. It can be done through meditation, relaxation exercises, or just simply slowing down and taking notice of things that are currently around you.
This type of therapy is designed to help individuals face their fears by exposing them to whatever object, situation, or activity is feared in a safe environment
What is exposure therapy?
A person with this diagnosis may have intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations.
What is anxiety?
A person with this diagnosis has a hard time focusing and sitting still making finishing things very hard.
What is ADHD? Symptoms of ADHD can include attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
1 in ___ U.S adults experienced both a substance use disorder and mental illness
What is 15?
What are emotion-focused coping skills?
Positive self-talk/affirmations, journaling, meditation, and breathing techniques.
A type of psychotherapy that believes changing the way of thinking can change your behaviors
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel, and behave clearly. This disorder is characterized by thoughts or experiences that seem out of touch with reality, disorganized speech or behavior, and decreased participation in daily activities. Other symptoms can include difficulty with concentration and memory.
What is Schizophrenia
State 3 causes of mental illness.
- genes or family history
- social isolation or loneliness
- experiencing discrimination/stigma
- social disadvantage, poverty or debt
- bereavement (losing someone close to you)
- severe or long-term stress
- having a long-term physical health condition
- unemployment or losing your job
- homelessness or poor housing
- drug and alcohol misuse
- domestic violence, bullying, or other abuse as an adult
- significant trauma as an adult, such as military combat, being involved in a serious incident in which you feared for your life, or being the victim of a violent crime
Half of all mental illness occurs before a person turns ______ years old
What is 14? 50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age 14, and 75% by age 24.
What Are Positive Affirmations?
Give an example of a positive affirmation for yourself.
Positive affirmations can be defined as positive phrases or statements that we repeat to ourselves. Positive affirmations are used to challenge unhelpful or negative thoughts. Also, they can used to manifest goals, dreams, or experiences we desire.
Type of psychotherapy that involves teaching people how to live in the moment, develop healthy ways to cope with stress, regulate emotions, and improve relationships with others
What is Dialectal Behavioral Therapy (DBT)?