Depression
NAMI is a umbrella-like program provides local resources on _________
What is mental health?
This is excessive worrying even if there isn't a current stressor
What is anxiety?
Two ways to protect yourself from STI's/STD's
What are internal/external condoms, dental dams, testing, talking about testing and abstinence?
Chemical messengers in the brain that send signals between brain cells and the body
What is a neurotransmitter?
I am the author of I Know Why the Caged Birds Sings
Who is Maya Angelou?
The DSM-5 (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) is a handbook mental health professionals use to _______patients
What is diagnose?
An involuntary response to stress is called the ____ or____ response
What is the fight or flight response?
where the rash unique to syphilis develops
What are the palms of hands and soles of feet?
Oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, methadone, fentanyl, and heroin all belong to this class of drugs
What is a synthetic Opioid?
A famous poem that celebrates the strength and resilience of women
What is "Still I Rise"?
SSRIs, SNRIs, NDRIs, Tricyclic, MAOI all belong to this family of medication.
What are antidepressants?
_______Stressors affect your mind like emotional trauma, physical stressors affect your body
What are psychological stressors?
A sore that develops on your genitalia that is usually painless
What is chancre?
______ is when alcohol is consumed and absorbed by the lining in the stomach and then it is integrated into the bloodstream. It then makes its way into the brain, and it blocks chemical signals between brain cells.
What is intoxication?
I am the child of Jamaican and Indian immigrants.
Who is Kamala Harris?
_____ depressive disorder is characterized by one or more episodes of at least 2 weeks of depressed mood or loss of interest accompanied by at least four additional symptoms.
What is major depressive disorder?
The name of the hormone that triggers your fight or flight response
Adrenaline (epinephrine)
A complication of untreated STIs that can cause scarring in the fallopian tubes that can cause infertility or ectopic pregnancy
What is pelvic inflammatory disease?
Symptoms of opioid overuse
What is depression, poor concentration, shaking hands, tremor, inability to feel pleasure, memory loss, constipation and respiratory depression?
I led a nonviolent revolution in India and was assassinated
Who is Gandhi?
______ depressive disorder is diagnosed when a person has a depressed mood that occurs for most of the day and has lasted for at least 2 years
What is persistent depressive disorder?
Changes in your body during the fight or flight response
What are increases in heart rate, blood pressure, heavier breathing, and increases in adrenaline
Definitive treatments for STI's
What are antibiotics, antivirals, and knowing your status?
When a person tries to seek out external sources of dopamine because overuse of opioids caused the person's brain to not naturally produce dopamine.
What is opioid addiction?
I battled with alcoholism and drug addiction and wrote the poem "The Crunch"
Who is Charles Bukowski?