Mental Health
What does the acronym PTSD stand for?
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
This can range from mild irritation to intense rage
What is Anger?
Isolating, Denial, Substance Abuse, Self harm, and Blaming are examples of negative what?
What are negative coping skills?
This is the practice of regularly taking time to focus on your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being
What is Self-care?
Perhaps the most well know composer in history, this famous music writer supposedly suffered with bipolar disorder in addition to going deaf (Hint: He shares a name with a fictional St. Bernard)
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This is the ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels
What is Empathy?
This is the term for a sudden, intense, and overwhelming episode of fear or discomfort, often accompanied by physical symptoms like a racing heart, shortness of breath, and sweating.
What is a panic/anxiety attack?
To maintain healthy relationships, we should identify and communicate these physical, psychological, and emotional limits to protect ourselves from being used, manipulated, or violated by others.
What are boundaries?
Some people in recovery need help with past difficult life events, distressing experiences, and memories often referred to as a history of _______
What is trauma?
Despite being one of the most well-known US historical figures, this 16th president of the US was known to struggle with a mood disorder
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Signals that tell your mind and body how to react
What are Emotions?
This is the term for a persistent, strong, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity.
What are phobias?
One of the most common symptom linked to stress
What is Fatigue?
Regardless of what the substance is, once addiction to that substance occurs for long enough this important organ drastically changes the way it functions –
What is the brain?
This legendary Dutch painter, known for "Starry Night," grappled with mental health issues, even to the point where he knowingly cut off part of his own ear
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
Anger, Love, Fear, Happiness, Guilt, and Sadness are some of the most common of these
What are Emotions?
Waiting in line, sitting in traffic, or loud noises could be examples of what for some people
What are Triggers?
If we change the way we think we can change this as well
What is Behavior?
Principals that are important and that guide the decisions you make and how you live
What are Values?
One of the most well know artists to ever live, this Italian genius is thought to have an anxiety disorder and possibly even autism, but that did not stop him from completing his four-year masterpiece of painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. (Hint: one of the four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Who is Michelangelo?
When anger becomes the intentional use of unfriendly or hostile behavior it is called this
What is Aggression?
This mental health disorder is characterized by persistent and intrusive thoughts followed by repetitive behaviors or rituals aimed at reducing anxiety.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
Thought process where you find the worst in everything, lowering expectations by expecting the worst case scenario, and often involves critical or hurtful self talk.
What is Negative Thinking?
This neurotransmitter is closely linked to the mind's reward system and is commonly associated with pleasure and reinforcement. (Hint: it is the one most talked about in addiction treatment)
What is Dopamine?
One of the original writers of the “horror” genre, this legendary author from the 1800’s suffered from grief and depression.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?