Defining Disorders
The diversity or variation of cognitive functioning in people. Everyone has a unique brain and therefore different skills, abilities, and needs.
What is Neurodiversity?
This on-campus resource is a full-service clinic tailored to meet students' health needs
What is the Student Health Center?
The handbook used by healthcare professionals in the United States containing descriptions, symptoms, and other criteria for diagnosing mental disorders.
What is the DSM-V ?
During this activity, the body slows down, consolidates memory, regulates emotions, and decreases amygdala activity in the brain.
What is sleeping/taking a nap?
A mental illness characterized, in part, by fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, and markedly diminished interest or pleasure in activities once found to be enjoyable.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Located on the 5th floor of LBJSC, this on-campus resource offers individual brief, short-term therapy or group sessions to students for FREE!
What is the Counseling Center?
The leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States.
What is the American Psychological Administration?
During this activity, an individual focuses on maintaining a judgement-free awareness of one's own thoughts, emotions, and experiences on a moment-to-moment basis.
What is practicing mindfulness?
In addition to its primary indicator, this mental illness is associated with at least three of the following: Restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, or sleep disturbance.
What Is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This FREE app links students to 24/7 mental health chat services, as well as psychiatry referral, health coaching, and basic needs support
What is TimelyCare?
A federal public health agency under the Department of Health and Human Services.
What is CDC?
During this activity, the body releases chemicals that help counteract feelings of stress and anxiety (this activity might often be done at Campus Rec)
What is physical activity/exercise?
A mental illness including recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are intrusive and unwanted causing distress, leading to an attempt to ignore or suppress through some other thought or action (i.e., by performing a compulsion)
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
What is the Office of Disability Services (ODS)?
A physician who evaluates patients to determine what is causing their symptoms (physical/mental illness or both). Can diagnose and prescribe medication to individuals.
What is a psychiatrist?
An individual may feel higher levels of stress in the body both mentally and physically when engaging in this negative coping strategy (e.g. energy drinks, coffee, and nicotine are some examples)
What is consuming a stimulant?
A mental illness wherein a distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated energy and high-spirited or irritable mood, sometimes followed by periods of less manic or low moods.
What Is Bipolar I Disorder?
These self-paced self-help websites are FREE to Texas State students and provide videos, trainings, and resources on- and off-campus mental health services
What are Minds Matter and Therapy Assistance Online?
One works with you short term to solve a life change or temporary problem, and one works with you long term to treat ongoing mental health conditions.
What is the difference between a counselor and a therapist?
During this activity, an individual realizes that they cannot do this alone - they need to reach out to others for treatment and help.
What is seeking support?