Mental Health disorders
Treatment
Positive Mental Health
Coping Skills
Celebrities
100
This is a mental and physical reaction to perceived threats. In small doses it can be helpful. It can protect us from danger, and focus our attention on problems. However, when it is too severe, or occurs too frequently, it can be debilitating
Anxiety
100
Name two professionals that help treat mental health.
Psychiatrist, Therapist, Counselor, Recreation Therapist, Nurse Practitioner.
100
True or False: Its okay to make mistakes.
True.
Mistakes are opportunities to learn and grow. Mistakes are beneficial if they are learned from.
100
What is a coping skill?
A tool to help you with your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in stressful situtations.
100
This daytime talk show host and voice of an animated forgetful fish has opened up about her struggles with depression.
Ellen DeGeneres
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Common symptoms include: loss of interest in enjoyable activities, change in appetite, sleep disturbances, loss of energy, thoughts of death and suicide
Depression
200
True or False: medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
False: medication can be helpful, but therapy and counseling are also effective forms of overcoming mental illness.
200
True or false: All stress is bad.
False.
Some stress can be motivating and is a natural reaction your body has to certain events. It can sometimes give us an "extra push". When stress becomes too much to handle, that might be an indication to start making some positive mental health changes
Bonus: Name two positive stressors.
200
This coping skill involves the lungs and is part of mindfulness and stress reduction.
Deep Breathing
Go in through your nose and out through your mouth. You use these to help slow your mind and reduce intense emotions.
200
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This Olympic swimmer was diagnosed with ADHD at age 9 which made it hard for him to concentrate in school
Michael Phelps
300
These symptoms are brief but overwhelming. The intensity of this symptom can go beyond normal limits. Common experiences include: fear that they are having a heart attack, breathing difficulties, sweating or they are dying
Panic Attack
300
True or False: Mental health is a rare disorder and not many people experience it.
False.
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What are two things that can promote positive mental health?
Exercise, mindfulness, positive friendships, talking about your problems, having an outlet for anger and frustration, getting enough sleep, eating healthy...??
300
This coping skill involves identifying positive aspects of your life or situation to help change perspective.
Gratitude
300
This classical composer was diagnosed with a serious case of Bipolar disorder - which is characterized by periods of extreme highs and extreme lows.
Beethoven
400
This is one of the tools your body uses to protect you from danger. When you feel threatened, this automatic response is triggered and several physiological changes occur.
Fight or Flight
400
True or False: Getting help for your mental health means that you will never get better and that your are dependent forever on that help.
False.
It is okay to try and work through problems alone first. Help can help people become more independent and feel supported during stressful situations.
400
True or False: Self-care is not a way to promote positive mental health.
False.
Selfcare helps promote positive mental health and is a way to maintain mental health.
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This is the practice of focusing the mind to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
Meditation.
400
This 16th president of the United States suffered from depression and anxiety attacks.
Abraham Lincoln
500
This mental health disorder is characterized by extreme mood swings that go into really low depression or really high mania.
Bipolar Disorder
500
What is one way you can help your mental health?
Therapy, medication management, going to appointments, asking for help, journaling, practicing mindfulness, developing self awareness, practice coping skills.
500
How do you challenge a negative thought?
Find evidence against your thought and rephrase it into a positive message.
500
What is a coping skill that you use and why?
ANY
500
This actor /comedian died in 2014 due to mental health issues.
Robin Williams.
Bonus: What was his mental health diagnosis?