Fact or Myth
We can always trust our feelings
Myth
It’s wise to pay attention to emotions, but we should be cautious about how we interpret what we feel. For example, if we feel strong jealousy, we may leap to the conclusion that our partner is cheating, despite having no actual evidence.
What is the mental health Vocab word meaning "the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness, the ability to 'bounce back' ?"
Resilience
This disorder is characterized by hyperactivity or inattentiveness
ADHD
In medium doses, this substance can cause slurred speech, drowsiness and altered emotions
Alcohol
Interpreting the meaning of a situation with little to no evidence
jumping to conclusions
Other people control how we feel
Myth
What others do can affect how we feel, but no one can make us feel a certain way. We have to take responsibility for what we feel, how we respond, and the consequences of that response.
What is the medical term for fear?
Anxiety
Fear of having a panic attack in a place where it would be hard to get help.
agoraphobia
Long term effects of this substance include breathing problems and birth defects in unborn children
Marijuana
making broad interpretations from a single or few events
overgeneralization
Mental Health conditions develop from genetics only
Many factors contribute to the development of a mental health condition, including life experiences (such as trauma or a history of abuse), biological factors, and family history of mental illness
What are the 3 main types of responses to stress?
fight, flight or freeze
Fear of the ocean or deep open water
Thalassophobia
Short-term effects of this highly addictive substance include , insomnia, increased heart rate, seizures, cardiac arrest
Cocaine / Coke
interpreting the thoughts and beliefs of others without adequate evidence
mind reading
Emotions' are the biggest motivator of human actions.
Fact,
They make you survive, reproduce, create social bonds and be moral.
What do we call a person's overall sense of worth or personal value?
self-esteem
Fear of vomiting
Emetophobia
This substance, can cause dilated pupils, sweating or chills, loss of appetite, dry mouth and visual hallucinations. This substance is commonly known as acid
LSD
seeing only the worst possible outcomes of a situation
catastrophizing
Love is not an emotion
Fact,
Love is an attachment within which we can experience a lot of emotions or moods: joy, awe, anger, worry etc.
The purpose of this emotion is to let us know something is unfair or that something needs to change
Anger
It’s a severe dysfunction — an inability to describe one’s emotions in words, thus distinguishing emotions and understanding emotional states of others.
Alexithymia
Name at least 2 categories of substances
stimulants, depressants, hallucinogens, inhalants
recognizing only the negative aspects of a situations while ignoring the positive
disqualifying the positive