Mental Health
What can negatively impact your mental health?
What causes mental health problems?
- childhood abuse, trauma, or neglect.
- social isolation or loneliness.
- experiencing discrimination and stigma, including racism.
- social disadvantage, poverty or debt.
- bereavement (losing someone close to you)
- severe or long-term stress.
- having a long-term physical health condition.
- Etc…
Name 3 examples of bad coping mechanisms
Some of the most common unhealthy coping mechanisms are:
Avoiding issues.
Sleeping too much.
Excessive drug or alcohol use.
Impulsive spending.
Over or under eating.
Etc…
What type of therapist helps married couples?
Marriage and family therapists treat a wide range of serious clinical problems including: depression, marital problems, anxiety, individual psychological problems, and child-parent problems.
What are the signs of Depression?
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True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental health illness, like depression or anxiety.
False! Mental health disorders can begin in childhood.
What are 2 examples of mental health stigma?
person with anxiety may be labelled as being cowardly rather than having an illness.
People with depression may be told to 'snap out of it'. People living with schizophrenia are incorrectly described as having a 'split personality'. These are all examples of stigma against people with mental illness.
Name three healthy coping mechanisms.
Some common coping strategies are:
Lowering your expectations.
Asking others to help or assist you.
Taking responsibility for the situation.
Engaging in problem solving.
Maintaining emotionally supportive relationships.
Maintaining emotional composure or, alternatively, expressing distressing emotions.
Etc…
What is the purpose of PIP at CMF?
True or False: People wait to 6-8 years to treat their mental health illnesses’.
True!
True or False: All stress is bad
False! Good stress is vital for a healthy life. You may think any type of stress is bad, but that isn't the case. Good stress, or eustress, is the type of stress you feel when you're excited. Your pulse quickens and your hormones surge, but there is no threat or fear.You might feel this type of stress when you ride a roller coaster, compete in a game, or go on a first date. Good stress is short-term and it inspires and motivates you, focuses your energy and enhances performance.
What is mental health?
a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
Name three of the five stages of grief?
the stages of grief are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
What professions are apart of your treatment team at PIP?
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Rehabilitation/ Recreation Therapist
Social Workers
Nursing Staff
What percent of the population sees a therapist?
In 2020, around 24.4 percent of white adults received some form of mental health treatment in the past year compared to 15.3 percent of black adults and 12.6 percent of Hispanics.
What is depression?
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and sometimes you may feel as if life isn't worth living.
When people internalize negative beliefs, leading them to experience feelings of shame, anger, hopelessness, or despair that keep them from seeking social support, employment, or treatment for their mental health conditions. What is this?
Answer: self stigma
How do you get help when dealing with suicidal ideations/ thoughts?
You can reach out to a staff member and they will contact the correct person.
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Where is the only place where today comes before yesterday?
How many people incarcerated are diagnosed with a mental health disorder?
1 in 4 experience psychological distress while incarcerated.
A lobotomy is a type of brain surgery that became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for mental health conditions. It involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain. Doctors performed this procedure on people with conditions such as schizophrenia and depression.When was the last lobotomy performed in the United States?
The last recorded lobotomy in the United States was performed by Dr. Walter Freeman in 1967 and ended in the death of the person on whom it was performed. In Europe, the Soviet Union banned lobotomies in 1950 , a year after inventor Dr. Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for medicine.