Mental Illnesses
This illness is characterized by intense, irrational fears of particular objects or situations.
What are phobias?
This coping skill involves a deep focus on a particular object, thought, or activity to clear the mind.
Meditation
These types of disorder all share one common symptom - those who suffer from them all experience severe discomfort and tension.
What are anxiety disorders?
Someone with depression may experience thoughts of this.
What is suicide?
This illness is characterized by a limited attention span and impulsive behavior.
What is ADHD?
This coping skill involves stopping and focusing on one's breathing in order to calm the body.
What is deep breathing?
These kinds of disorders are all characterized by excessive long-term depressed mood.
What is Depression?
People with ADHD often struggle with this essential life skill.
What is focus?
This illness is characterized by swings between manic and depressive episodes, and a lack of normal mood states.
What is Bipolar Mood Disorder?
This coping skill involves leaning on those around us in order to help deal with mental illness.
What is social support?
These types of disorders all involve a preoccupation with food, weight, and eating.
What are eating disorders?
Hallucinations experienced by those with schizophrenia often take the form of this.
What are people?
This illness is portrayed on screen by Russell Crowe in the film A Beautiful Mind, and is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and social withdrawl.
What is schizophrenia?
Coping skills help reduce this.
What is stress?
These types of disorders are characterized by a disruption of the normal behavior, thinking, and inner experience of a person.
What are personality disorders?
Many of the compulsions experience by those with OCD relate to having to do tasks a certain *BLANK* of times.
What is number?
This illness is characterized by frequent obsessions and/or complusions that the person is unable to get rid of.
What is OCD?
Coping skills are only a *BLANK* of living with mental illness.
What is a part?
These types of disorder all negatively affect the emotional state of an individual.
What are mood disorders?
Agoraphobia is a type of anxiety disorder in which the affected person experiences extreme anxiety/fear of this.
What are small/crowded spaces?