Mental Health
Coping Skills
Give a Example
True or False
Riddles
100

The broad term used to describe a condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions can impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others. 

What is Mental Illness

100

Meditation and yoga is this type of coping skill

Mindfulness 

100

Distraction coping skill

TV, movies, reading, drawing,, knitting, pain induction, ect.

100

True or false

Coping skills are used to avoid problems in our lives 

False

Coping skills help us work through problems in a healthy way 

100

What has to be broken before you can use it?

An egg

200

TRUE or FALSE: around 1 in 4 Americans have a diagnosed mental illness.

What is TRUE? (approx. 26.2% of Americans)

200

Smelling a candle or taking a shower is this type of coping skill

Self-soothing

200

Self-soothing coping skill

Smelling candles, taking a shower, putting on comfy clothing, listening to music, etc.

200

True or false

Coping skills help you focus on important things in your life

True 

When we cope with problems and ease or emotions it helps us think clearer and tackle them better 

200

What month of the year has 28 days?

All of them

300

This is a medical illness characterized by persistent sadness and a lack of interest or pleasure in previously rewarding or enjoyable activities

Depression

300

Journaling and talking to someone about how you feel is this type of coping skill

Emotional Awareness

300

Emotional awareness coping skill

Journaling, talking to someone, etc.

300

True or false 

Coping skills are something everyone is born knowing how to do 

False 

Coping skills are learned throughout our lives

300

What question can you never answer yes to?

Are you asleep?

400

Impulsively making decisions and staying up for days is commonly associated with this.

What is Mania or Bipolar manic episode?

400

What makes a coping skill unhealthy?

If it does more harm than good, such as I start to use them to enable my addictive or criminal behaviors by being dishonest about my behavior.

400

Opposite action coping skill

Walking away instead of fighting, laughing instead crying, standing up straight when you feel nervous, etc.

400

Positive thoughts create positive moods, and negative thoughts create negative moods

True


Give me an example of a thought that puts you in a good / bad mood

400

A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

He was bald.

500

A mental disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts, speech or behavior.

What is Schizophrenia

500

Is stress something that can be controlled?

Yes but but it takes time and practice

500

Crisis Intervention 

Calling 911, Calling the Crisis Hotline or going to the hospital/ Urgent Care Center, etc. 

500

You can catch a mental illness from someone who has it, it is contagious.

False. Mental illness is not at all contagious.

500

What has a head and a tail but no body?

A coin

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