Making Healthy Decisions
Term meaning to choose actions to avoid negative health outcomes
Reaction to a situation that involves your mind, body, and behavior
What is emotion?
The response of the body and mind to being challenged or threatened
What is stress?
A kind of treatment for mental disorders that involves being admitted to a hospital or clinic for extensive therapy and help with recovering or learning to live with their mental disorder
What is hospitalization?
The number of years a person is likely to live
What is life expectancy?
A general feeling that you are a bad person- especially following doing an action you know is wrong
What is shame?
Situation or event that causes stress
What is a stressor?
A risk factor of suicide that involves not being around mental health professionals
What is lack of access to mental health treatment?
The degree of overall satisfaction a person gets from life
What is quality of life?
The behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that make you an individual
A type of stressor that can cause loss if life or destruction of property
What is a catastrophe?
What is a psychiatrist?
A process used to help make multi-step decisions that require you to explore alternatives, consider consequences, identify your values, make a decision and evaluate the results
What is the DECIDE process?
Emotions expressed by people in all cultures
What are primary emotions?
The stage of stress that causes the body to experience the fight or flight response
What is the alarm stage?
A mood disorder that leads people to feel hopeless and sad for months, and unable to enjoy things that once brought them joy
What is depression?
Part of a person's social environment that includes behaviors, beliefs and other learned patterns passed down from generation to generation
What is culture?
Emotions that are not expressed the same way by all people- expression of these emotions depends on a person's social environment
What are learned emotions?
A term for negative stress, which means stressful situations that cause more stress than is beneficial for the body
What is distress?
Protective factor to lower risk to suicide by practicing how to resolve conflict