Mental Health
This country has the highest rate of depression.
What is India
Can you name the second and third countries with the highest rate of depression?
Withdrawal from these two substances can be life-threatening without medical supervision.
What are alcohol and benzodiazepines?
Famous recovery phrase used by AA.
What is "One day at a time?"
Term for detectable impairments in memory when you have no recollection of events.
What are blackouts?
One of the most important activities for brain healing during recovery.
What is sleep?
Term to describe a person who has both a SUD and mental health condition.
What is a Co-Occurring Disorder or Duel-Diagnosis?
This is the leading cause of accidental deaths in the US.
What are drug overdoses?
This term refers to when a person maintains limits with themselves and others, protecting their emotional space, and avoiding negativity.
What are boundaries?
This lobe is our thinking center; it powers our ability to think, plan, solve, problems, and make decisions.
What is the frontal cortex (lobe)?
This unofficial holiday is one of the biggest beer-selling days in the U.S.
What is Super Bowl Sunday?
Cycle of physical & emotional strain caused by chronic stress and pressure of achievement.
Hint: We just discussed this in group...
What is Burnout?
Environmental factors such as this in childhood increase the risk of substance abuse in an individual.
What is trauma?
The ability to look within yourself honestly. Seeing your own flaws, patterns, and strengths.
What is insight?
The pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction.
What is Dopamine?
The first "happy hour" began with this branch of the military.
What is the U.S. Navy?
The term "happy hour" began in the U.S. Navy in 1913. Sailors aboard the battleship USS Arkansas organized "Happy Hours" to relieve the monotony of life at sea. These scheduled entertainment periods featured boxing matches, wrestling, music, and movies—years before the term was tied to discounted drinks during Prohibition
This is the largest mental health institution in the US.
What is Riker's Island Jail?
The oldest known recipe in history.
These types of goals are an effective framework used to transform vague ideas into clear, actionable objectives.
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound
What are S.M.A.R.T. Goals?
Weight of the adult human brain.
What is 3lbs?
The spirit made from potatoes.
What is vodka?
The first mental health illness to be recognized by the APA.
What is melancholia?
This is a severe form of clinical depression characterized by extreme anhedonia, lack of mood reactivity, and intense physical symptoms. It is marked by a deep, empty mood, often accompanied by early morning waking, significant weight loss, psychomotor agitation or retardation, and excessive guilt.
The rate at which one person dies from alcoholism globally.
What is every 10 seconds?
This rate outpaces deaths from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and violence combined.
This was the year Alcoholics Anonymous founded.
What is June 10, 1935?
Bonus: Where was it founded and what are the names of the two men who founded it?
Akron, Ohio, by Bill Wilson ("Bill W.") and Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith ("Dr. Bob")
These "chemical messengers" make it possible for messages to travel through your body.
What are neurotransmitters?
The fear of an empty beer glass.
What is Cenosillicaphobia?
*mostly considered humorous rather than a formal diagnosis