Mental Health
This is the name for how you feel emotionally, such as happy, sad, or angry.
What is a mood (or emotion)?
What is Recovery?
working toward a meaningful life while managing mental health challenges.
This coping skill involves taking slow, deep breaths to help your body relax.
What is deep breathing?
What is stress?
This is your body's natural response to challenges or demands
Taking slow, deep breaths is an example of this type of skill used to calm down.
What is a coping skill?
Friends, family, therapists, and peer specialists are all examples of this.
What is a support system?
Talking to a trusted friend, family member, therapist, or peer is an example of using this.
What is a support system?
A stressful event or situation that causes a strong emotional reaction is called this.
What is a stressor (or trigger)?
What is the difference between a trigger and a coping skill?
A trigger is something that causes a strong emotional reaction; a coping skill is a strategy used to manage that reaction.
Why is it important to identify warning signs early?
Because recognizing warning signs early allows someone to take action before symptoms or problems become more serious.
Name one healthy coping skill you can use instead of reacting impulsively when you're upset.
What is deep breathing, taking a walk, journaling, talking to someone, listening to music, or another healthy coping skill?
Name one emotion that people may feel when they are stressed.
What is anxiety, anger, frustration, sadness, irritability, or feeling overwhelmed?
True or False: Mental illnesses are a sign of personal weakness.
False
True or False
Recovery only focuses on reducing symptoms and not on achieving personal goals.
False
Writing about your thoughts and feelings in a notebook is called this coping skill.
What is Journaling
Name three common physical symptoms of stress.
Name three protective factors that support good mental health.
What are supportive relationships, healthy coping skills, regular sleep, exercise, hobbies, therapy, medication adherence (when prescribed), or community involvement.
This refers to negative beliefs about mental illness that can affect how people see themselves.
What is Stigma?
Name five healthy coping skills that can help manage stress or difficult emotions.
Name three healthy ways you could manage your stress.