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What is a coping skill that you can use to reduce stress?
Answers will vary.
True or False: Participation in team sports is shown to produce higher self-esteem in adolescents.
True
True or False: Everyone deals with stress the same way.
False
True or False: Denying your feelings can make them go away and it can be both positive for your physical and mental health.
False
True or false: Everyone has mental health?
True. Your mental health can change day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute, but everyone has mental health.
What are two types of relaxation techniques?
Mediation, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Yoga, and Deep Breathing
A network of people that can provide you with practical or emotional support is called a _____ system.
support
Give an example of how you can express gratitude.
Writing a letter to say thanks, using manners, expressing thankfulness, writing down things you are grateful for each day.
True or False: Exercise can improve your mental health.
True
True or False:
What you eat does not affect how you feel.
False. Proper nutrition is incredibly important for mental health. If you eat well, you help get proper nutrients to your brain and that helps you get into a positive state of mental health.
What is self-esteem?
How you feel about yourself.
1 factor that impacts self-esteem.
self-image, social interactions, home, school, community, life events, media like tv, movies, or social media
Name one trait a person with healthy self-esteem may have.
Willingness to make mistakes, feel good about relationships with others, feel loved by others, able to engage in social activities.
Strategy that involves being present in the moment and paying attention to thoughts and feelings in a non-judgmental way.
Mindfulness
The following is the definition of what word?
What a person believes and finds important; guides personal behaviors and choices
Values
Feelings of intense sadness, worthlessness and hopelessness are symptoms of what mental health condition.
Depression
What are 3 things you can do to help stop the mental health stigma?
Talk openly about mental health
Educate yourself and others
Be conscious of language used
Show compassion for those with mental illnesses
Be honest about treatment
Etc..
What is the national suicide prevention hotline number?
988
The specific thing that causes stress is called...
A stressor
What is the most common mental illness?
Depression. Impacting an estimated 300 million people, depression is the most-common mental disorder and generally affects women more often than men.
Which mental illness is described as sudden episodes of intense fear that triggers severe physical reactions, when there is no real or apparent cause
Panic disorder
Which mental illness is described as excessive thoughts that lead to repetitive behaviors
OCD
Most people who consider suicide do not want to die... they just want ____________
The pain to stop
What following it the definition to what word?
Refusal to believe something.
What is Denial
What is the practice of taking action to preserve or improve one's own health?
Self care