Brainstorm
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?
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?
This is a normal emotional feeling experienced by a person from a loss of a loved one, it is different from a depressive disorder. This is not a mental disorder.
What is Grief?
____ is a long term condition that a patient has to live with, which may often fluctuate and for which there is usually no cure such as diabetes, asthma or many mental health problems.
What is a Chronic Disease?
What are the five stages of grief?
What is denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance?
Listening to music, reading, and drawing are examples of....
What are Coping skills?
A legal substance used for medical treatment diagnosed by a doctor
What is a Prescription?
The number one abused substance on college campuses...
What is Alcohol?
When is Mental Health Awareness month?
When is May?
___ are irrational fears that lead people to altogether avoid specific things or situations that trigger intense anxiety.
What are Phobias?
OCD stands for..
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
True or False: Slapping Chris Rock is an example of a healthy coping skill.
What is FALSE?
Negative, incorrect beliefs, stereotype or label are other names for this.
What is a stigma?
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?
When someone is often nervous and experiences panic attacks they are said to have this mental health challenge.
What is anxiety?
True or False: 1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year.
What is TRUE?
When the symptoms you are experiencing are given a name.
What is a diagnosis?
A scientific study using human volunteers (also called participants) to look at new ways to prevent, detect, or treat disease.
What is a Clinical Trial?
The two most common mental disorders in the U.S.
What is Depression & Anxiety?
A person with this diagnosis feels scared even if they are safe and there is nothing to be afraid of.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
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.)