Anxiety
Coping with Anxiety
Depression
Coping with Depression
Mystery
100

Panic attacks often cause a fear of death because they mimic symptoms of a ___

What is a heart attack?
100

This way of coping benefits both your mental and physical state. It allows you to relieve stress, increase blood flow, and produce endorphins.

What is exercise?

100

True or false: depression affects more than a person's mood.

True, it drains energy motivation, concentration, and can interfere with the ability to notice or enjoy good things in life.

100

These are the two most common treatments for depression.

What is therapy and medication?

100

When a person has two or more disorders at the same time or one after the other. This occurs frequently with substance use disorders. This also means the interaction of these disorders can worsen the course of both. 

What is comorbidity?

200

When we lack this, anxiety symptoms may feel worse.

What is sleep?

200

This coping mechanism is a way to explore thoughts and feelings. This can relieve stress by helping one become aware of triggers or thought patters, and helps track one's progress. 

What is journaling?

200
An inability to experience pleasure from activities usually found to be enjoyable.

What is anhedonia? 

200

These medical professionals specialize in treating people with anxiety and depression.

What are psychiatrists?

200

About half of those suffering from anxiety disorders also suffer from this.

What is depression?

300
This recent event has caused anxiety to increase by 3 times.

What is the COVID-19 pandemic?

300

This is the practice of taking action to preserve your own mental health and wellbeing. It consists of tending to yourself physically, or engaging in hobbies.

What is self-care?

300

Which of the following is NOT a symptom of depression: difficulty concentrating, fatigue, lack of interest, excessive hunger, irritability

What is excessive hunger?
300

This can be used to regulate sleep patterns and improve mood, when done for 10 minutes within the first hour of waking up.

What is exposure to sunlight? 

300

It takes a month of abstinence to reset the brains reqard pathway so that the drug isn't driving our decisions. This explains why those entering treatment for SUDS are often in a ________ state

What is dopamine deficient?

400

Two types of beverages that can worsen anxiety.

What are alcoholic beverages and caffeinated beverages?

400

This involves setting aside an amount of time in the day to focus on something that is on your mind. Until it is that time, one should not think of those things.

What is worry-time?

400

This is a type of depression that is related to changes in seasons, beggining and ending about the same time every year.

What is SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)?

400

Often times depressive symptoms lead individuals to avoid social situations or even leaving the house. Those with these symptoms would benefit from this. 

What is a support group?

400

Those with this disorder experience manic episodes along with depression.

What is bi-polar disorder? 

500

If a person tries to calm their anxious feelings without seeking professional help, they may be at risk for developing ____

What is substance use disorder? 

(Could also accept addiction)

500

This type of coping involves identifying, challenging, and altering negative thought patterns that can maintain anxiety.

What is cognitive restructuring? 

(Can also accept cognitive behavioral therapy)

500

This percentage of people in the U.S. will experience major depressive disorder at some point in their lives.

What is 10%?

500

This type of medication is a re-uptake inhibitor of the monoamine neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine, by blocking the actions of the serotonin transporter and dopamine transporter, respectively.

What is an SDRI (Serotonin-Dopamine Re-uptake Inhibitor)?

500

True or false: more than 50% of people with mental health or substance abuse do not receive treatment.

True, data from the National Institution on Drug Abuse in 2018 shows that 52% of people with occurring disorders received neither mental health care nor substance use treatment

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