Brainstorm
Define this...
Feelings
ETC.
True or False?
100

A condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.

What is mental illness?

100

Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.

What is mental health? 

(also, Social and Emotional Health)

100

This is a normal emotional feeling experienced by a person from a loss of a loved one (e.g. it is experienced when a family member dies). It is different from a depressive disorder. This is not a mental disorder.

What is Grief?

100

Anything that causes stress is called...

What is a Stressor?

100
True or False: Medication and therapy can be helpful in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is TRUE?
200

A concept that can be proven.

What is a fact?

200

Listening to music, reading, and drawing are examples of....

What are Coping skills?

200

A substance used for medical treatment, especially a prescription drug.

What is Medication?

200

The number one abused substance on college campuses...

What is Alcohol?

200
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is FALSE?
300

When is Mental Health Awareness month?

What is May?

300

The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.

What is Patience?

300
A person with this diagnosis has a hard time focusing and sitting still making finishing things very hard.
What is ADHD?
300

OCD stands for..

What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

300

True or False: Slapping Chris Rock is an example of a healthy coping skill.

What is FALSE?

400

Negative, incorrect beliefs, stereotype or label are other names for this.

What is is stigma?

400

A person with this diagnosis experiences dramatic shifts in a person’s mood, energy and ability to think clearly. People with ______ experience high and low moods—known as mania and depression

What is Bi-Polar disorder?

400
A person with this diagnosis had thoughts and behaviors that are focused too much on food and body weight.
What is an eating disorder?
400

When someone is often nervous and experiences panic attacks they are said to have this mental health challenge.

What is anxiety?

400

True or False: 1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year.

What is TRUE?

500

When the symptoms you are experiencing are given a name.

What is a diagnosis?

500

The act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information

What is Communication?

500

The two most common mental disorders in the U.S.

What is Depression & Anxiety?

500

This is an important part of the brain in controlling movement, planning behavior (actions), reasoning, emotions, and problem solving.

What is the Frontal Lobe?

500

True or False:

Every coping skill is healthy.

What is FALSE?

Some ways that we learn to cope are not healthy for us! (ex: smoking, drinking, gambling etc.)

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