Mental Health
A state of mental well being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn and work well, and contribute to their community.
What is mental health?
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is true?
Roughly this fraction of people who experience substance use disorder will also experience a mental illness during their lifetime.
What is one-half (or 50%)?
An individual who experiences periods of depression (increased sleep, increased appetite, isolation, low mood) followed by periods of elevated mood, impulsive behavior, irritability and increased goal-oriented activity may be experiencing this mental health condition.
What is bipolar disorder?
According to general trauma-informed definitions, this is the term for a bad, scary, or stressful event that happens to someone.
What is trauma?
Roughly 1 in this many adults experiences a mental illness in a given year.
What is 5?
This coping skill involves documenting daily thoughts, feelings, emotions or reflections in a notebook or digitally on a phone or computer.
What is Journaling?
These two highly common mood and emotional conditions are the most frequent mental health diagnoses to co-occur with addiction.
What are depression and anxiety?
This is a common and serious psychiatric diagnosis that impacts mood, motivation and energy levels.
What is Depression?
True or False: Everyone deals and reacts to traumatic events in the exact same way.
What is false?
A symptom of depression is a persistently ____ mood.
What is low and/or depressed mood?
This vocabulary word for changing your perspective on a situation to alter it's emotional meaning.
What is reframing?
This practice describes using drugs and alcohol to temporarily relieve the symptoms of an untreated underlying psychiatric condition.
What is self-medicating?
What is PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
Statistics show that over this percentage of adults seeking substance abuse treatment have a history of trauma?
What is 70%?
A health condition that changes a person's thinking feelings, or behavior and causes distress in daily life.
What is Mental Illness?
_________ alters the levels and activity of neurotransmitters, the brain's chemical messengers, to assist in alleviation of psychiatric symptoms.
What is meditation?
This communication style is the gold standard - it allows us to make our needs known in addition to being aware of the needs of others.
What is assertive communication?
A mental health condition where a person feels constant, extreme worry, fear, or dread.
What is anxiety disorder?
This clinical concept explains why a person might crave substances more intensely when they are reminded of past trauma.
What is a trauma trigger?
Continuously thinking about the same negative, stressful, or upsetting thoughts over and over again without solving the problem
What is Rumination?
This is a simple technique that is excellent for managing emotions, specifically anxiety. Not only is it effective, but is also discreet and easy to use at any time and any place.
What is deep breathing?
A chronic, treatable medical disease characterized by the compulsive use of a substance or engagement in a behavior despite severe negative consequences. It fundamentally alters the brain’s reward and self-control circuits, making it difficult to stop.
What is addiction?
Individuals who have lived through or witnessed a traumatic event and are experiencing flashbacks, nightmares and exaggerated startle response may be experiencing this mental health condition.
What is PTSD?
This 4 letter acronym stands for Adverse Childhood Experiences, which heavily correlate with substance use disorders later in life.
What is A.C.E.S?
Tools and actions you use to manage stress, lower big feelings, and handle hard life events?
What are coping skills?
A DBT skills known as "The Wise Mind" suggests that our brain operates on both _____ and _____.
This specific type of personality disorder is among the most frequently diagnosed in clinical addiction settings along with antisocial personality disorder.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
What is a Personality Disorder?
This type of therapy helps individuals reframe negative thought patterns that drive both trauma responses and substance cravings?
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?