True or False
Every one has mental health.
True. Your mental health can change day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute, but everyone has mental health.
Writing your thoughts and feelings on paper.
Journaling?
Using substances to help cope with emotions
Substance abuse.
True or False: Stress is an unnatural reaction
False. Stress is a natural, normal part of life. It is important to note that the experience of stress varies greatly among the individual. What constitutes overwhelming stress for one person may not be perceived as stress by another.
What can you catch, but not throw?
A Cold
If someone in your family has a mental illness, you will also be diagnosed with a mental illness.
False. Although some illnesses seem to have a genetic link, just because someone in your family has a mental illness does not mean that you will have one, too. Everybody has their own genetic makeup and you are an individual.
Being active can boost your feel-good endorphins and distract you from daily worries.
Exercise.
A state of complete or near-complete lack of contact between an individual and society.
Social isolation.
Name two positive stressors.
Meeting or engaging in a challenge. Coming in first place in a race. Getting a promotion at your job. Love, marriage, or childbirth. Riding a roller coaster. The holidays. Engaging in exercise, especially weight training.
What kind of band never plays music?
A rubber band
If you’re feeling sad one day, you are depressed.
False. If you’re sad one day you are having a poor mental health day and you can do things to cheer yourself up like exercising, getting outside and doing something you love to do. One day of feeling sad does not mean you are depressed.
Making light of a stressful situation may help people maintain perspective and prevent the situation from becoming overwhelming.
Humor
For some people, this takes the form of overeating whereas, for others, it takes the form of severely restricting their calorie intake.
Eating disorders
True or False: Stress can save your life
True In emergency situations, stress can save your life giving you extra strength to defend yourself
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
A stamp
It’s easy for children and young people to talk about their feelings
False. Nearly ¾ of young people or 20 in every class of 30 are afraid of the reaction of their friends if they talk about their feelings.
This coping mechanism involves identifying a problem that is causing stress and then developing and putting into action some potential solutions for effectively managing it.
Problem-Solving
Jumping to conclusion
Catastrophizing
Name one things that your body goes through during the flight or fight response
Heart rate increases, You begin breathing heavier, Palms get sweaty, Adrenaline Kicks in, Senses sharpen
What kind of room has no doors or windows?
A mushroom
There’s not much you can do to help a friend with a mental health problem.
False. It’s important to be a good friend and be kind, even when our friends are grumpy or sad. It will help them a lot to know that you are still their friend.
A set of techniques that are intended to encourage a heightened state of awareness and focused attention.
Meditation.
the action of delaying or postponing something.
Procrastination
DOES STRESS RESULT IN WEIGHT GAIN?
There is little study to link stress directly to weight gain; however, a significant correlation does exist. This is mostly because people who are under a lot of stress tend to indulge in overeating and making bad food choices. They also experience low energies, which leads them to live somewhat of a sedentary lifestyle. A combination of these may result in weight gain.
When is a door no longer a door?
When it’s ajar.