Mental Health
Alcohol Use Disorder
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
TRUE
What number is 988
Suicide hotline: 988
True or False: If you're feeling sad, you are depressed.
False: Persistent sadness
Celebrity singer and actress who has struggled with mental health and addiction.
Hint: She wrote a song Heart Attack and also had one!
Demi Lovato
This is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act.
Depression
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
FALSE
True or False: People with mental health challenges have to take special tests to get a job or buy a house.
FALSE
Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, or smelling something that is not there is a _____________.
What is a hallucination
This actor/comedian died in 2014 due to mental health issues.
Robin Williams
TRUE or FALSE:
Mental illness can be genetic
TRUE
Being thankful or expressing good things from your day, or things that you are thankful for, is a coping strategy known as ________
Gratitude
Where can you go for support in a crisis?
What is hospital, supportive family/friends, Counselors/ therapist, call/text hotline
______ is the leading mental health disorder in the United States.
Anxiety
A children's show that showcased various mental health symptoms. Can you name them all? (extra points)
Hint: Honey
Winnie the pooh- Eating Disorder
Tigger- ADHD
Piglet- Anxiety
Eeyore- Major Depressive Disorder
Christopher Robin- Schizophrenia
What does the acronym PTSD stand for?
Post-traumatic stress disorder
This give you a sense of calm, peace and balance that can benefit both your emotional well-being and your overall health.
Meditation
Who are the professionals that aid in problem-solving, living arrangements and promote social change. They work with people to enhance their ability to function in society.
Social Worker/Case Manager
__________ happens when a person with a substance use disorder returns to using a substance after abstaining for a period of time
What is relapse
The artist famous for his painting The Starry Night was prone to psychotic episodes and many historians agree that he had schizophrenia
Vincent van Gogh
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.
What is a Panic Attack?
What are the stages of grief?
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
What disorder has extreme intense depressive symptoms that alternate between manic moods
Bipolar Disorder
True or False. Negative coping skills can impact your mental health.
True.
The Nirvana front man and cultural icon who was diagnosed with ADD at a young age and later with bipolar disorder
Kurt Cobain
A sign that a person is about to experience a relapse on my mental illness
trouble sleeping, isolation, confusion
Feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, that can be mild or severe.
Anxiety
What unhealthy coping strategy involves separating from other people and staying alone
What is isolation?
True or False: People with mental illness are violent.
False.
The vast majority of people with mental illness are no more likely to be violent than anyone else. In fact, people with mental illnesses are more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population
A rapper who struggled with addiction following years of depression and anxiety.
Hint: Please stand up!
Eminem