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.
This daytime talk show host and voice of an animated forgetful fish has opened up about her struggles with depression.
Who is Ellen DeGeneres!
What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them!
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.
This classical composer was diagnosed with a serious case of Bipolar-disorder, which is characterized by extreme highs and extreme lows.
Who is Beethoven
What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?
The future!
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
This 16th president of the USA suffered from depression and anxiety attacks.
Who was Abraham Lincoln
What has a bottom at the top?
Your legs!
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
This famous alternative rock icon was diagnosed with depression and bipolar. While he knew the importance of his diagnosis, he was not compliant with treatment. This star committed suicide in 1994.
Kurt Cobain.
What has 13 hearts but no other organs?
A deck of cards.
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
This actor/comedian died in 2014 due to mental health issues. Bonus, what were his last 3 words to his wife?
Robin Williams. Goodnight my love.
A cowboy rides into town on Friday. He stays three days, then rides out of town on Friday. How?
His horse is named Friday!