Coping Skills
Truth or Fiction: Coping Skills can be learned.
What is Truth?
Move more. Staying ______ ______ can improve your emotional well-being.
What is Physically Healthy?
Managing this daily can prevent you from developing worsening health problems created by long-term stress
What is stress?
_____ is only for people with serious mental illness.
What is therapy?
Fact: Therapy can be beneficial for anyone, not just those with mental illness. While therapy is an essential tool for treating conditions such as depression and anxiety, many people find that it is also useful for navigating the daily stressors of life, including work and relationships.
______ refers to negative attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes people may hold towards those who experience mental health conditions.
What is Stigma?
What is an activity of expressing emotions, and processing thoughts to reduce stress through writing?
What is journaling?
Scrolling on social media for hours instead of doing homework is an example of this unhealthy habit.
What is procrastination?
(or avoidance)
Name an overpowering emotion that many people commonly feel prior to taking an exam or test?
(will also accept nervousness, anxiety, or stress)
_____ about mental health makes things worse
What is talking?
Fact: Having an open conversation about mental health has multiple benefits – not just for the people who may struggle with mental health challenges but also for the community. Hearing others, such as parents or mentors, talking about mental health can serve to reduce stigma7. On the other hand, ignoring concerns seldom makes them disappear. Whether checking in with a friend or visiting a mental health clinician, verbalizing emotions is often the first step in the journey of healing.
Having _____ ___________ around mental health including non-stigmatizing language can decrease negative attitudes and beliefs which can motivate people to seek treatment.
What are Open Conversations?
Name given to an activity that involves inhaling and exhaling air in a way that allows the lower lungs and abdominal muscles to be engaged.
What is deep breathing?
(or Belly Breathing)
How much sleep should teens aim for each night?
What is 8-10 hours?
___ is a process where individuals provide encouragement, assistance, and understanding to others facing similar challenges. This could look like students helping one another.
What is peer support?
Seeking help means I will have to take _______.
What is medication?
Fact: Treatment for mental health is highly individualized. While medication can be effective for some, it is not the only option. Even when medications are used, they are not magical in improving mental health. Most patients experience the most benefit when medication is used along with other things such as therapy, lifestyle changes, and mindfulness practices.6 The key to finding what works best for you is an important part of the conversation that takes place between a psychiatrist and their patient.
When stigma leads to ______, people living with a mental health condition may be treated negatively.
What is Discrimination?
Exercise that may help you refocus on the present moment to distract yourself from anxious feelings. It involves engaging the senses and focusing on immediate experiences to redirect attention away from overwhelming thoughts or feelings.
What is Grounding?
(or 5-4-3-2-1 technique)
The feeling of excessive awareness of oneself, one's appearance, or one's actions.
What is Self- Conscious?
Deep relaxation technique that has been effectively used to control stress and anxiety, relieve insomnia, and reduce symptoms of certain types of chronic pain. Based on simple practice of tensing or tightening one muscle group at a time followed by a relaxation phase.
What is Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR)?
_____ ______ issues are a sign of weakness
What is Mental Health?
Fact: Mental health struggles aren’t about weakness or character flaws. Environmental factors, genetics, and other stressors play a role.1 Just as we don’t see someone with the flu as weak, mental health challenges don’t define a person. Seeking help when struggling is a sign of resilience and strength.
Even through small actions, _____ all play a part in either helping or not helping to reduce mental health stigma in our communities.
What is We?
A simple breathing technique taught to manage stress that involves inhaling 4 seconds, holding 4 seconds, exhale 4 seconds, hold 4 seconds and repeating as needed.
What is Box Breathing?
Healthy reframing or modifying negative thoughts is called ____________.
What is Cognitive Reframing?
What is the name of a moderate or normal psychological stress that is interpreted as being beneficial because it can motivate one to take action or meet a deadline?
What is "Eustress"?
(sometimes called "good stress" or "positive stress")
Myth or Fact
It is impossible to prevent a mental health condition.
What is Myth?
Fact: Prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders focuses on addressing known risk factors, such as exposure to trauma, that can affect the chances that children, youth, and young adults will develop mental health conditions. Promoting a person’s social-emotional well-being leads to:
What is the national crisis line number you can text or call?
What is 988 (988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) ?