Parts of the Brain
This part of the brain is responsible for regulating behavior, emotions, and social control
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This is your ability to handle or cope with stress and enjoy daily life. It includes the way you feel, think, act and relate to others
What is mental health?
This is how many American adults experience mental illness annually.
What is 44 million (or 1 in 5)?
What is depression?
This are your abilities or talents employed to effectively respond to issues that result in disadvantage or adversity.
What are coping skills?
The fear area of the brain helps you avoid harmful things and escape danger. It is responsible for processing memory, decision-making, and emotional responses.
What is the amygdala?
This is a common mood disorder that causes severe symptoms affecting how you feel, think, and handle daily activities such as sleeping, eating, and working. To be diagnosed, symptoms must be present for at least 2 week.
What is depression?
This is the number of American adults living with major depression.
What is 16 million (or 6.9%)?
This is the approximate number of adults who have co-occurring mental health and addiction disorders.
What is 8.4 million?
This is a type of group in which members organize to solve their own problems. It is led by the group members themselves, who share a common goal and use their own strengths to gain control over their lives.
What are mutual support groups, or 12-step groups?
This neurotransmitter helps control movement and is involved with feelings of pleasure and addiction.
What is dopamine?
This is a brain disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
What is ADHD?
This is the number of American adults living with schizophrenia.
What is 2.4 million (or 1.1%)?
This is the percentage of individuals who die by suicide who have an underlying mental illness.
What is 90%?
This is what you do to ensure that you are taking your medication as prescribed.
What is medication compliance?
This neurotransmitter helps control mood, hunger, and sleep. People with depression often don’t have enough it.
What is serotonin?
This is an abnormal condition of the mind that involves a loss of contact with reality. People experiencing this condition may exhibit personality changes and thought disorder. Depending on the severity, this may be accompanied by unusual or bizarre behavior as well as difficulty with social interaction and impairment carrying out daily life activities.
What is psychosis?
This is the percentage of youth ages 13-18 living with a mental health condition.
What is 20%?
This is the approximate number of state prisons with a "recent history of mental health conditions."
What is 24%?
These are adverse, secondary, typically undesirable reactions resulting from medications.
What are side effects?
This neurotransmitter, the most common chemical messenger, increases the chance that an impulse will form in other neurons. People with mental illnesses such as autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression, may have problems making or using this chemical.
What is glutamate?
This is a chronic mental health condition characterized primarily by symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations or delusions, and symptoms of a mood disorder, such as mania and depression.
What is schizoaffective disorder?
What is 14?
This is the annual cost that is lost in earning in America every year due to serious mental illness (in billions).
What is -$193 billion?
These are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify reasonable, safe, and permissible ways for other people to behave towards them and how they will respond when someone passes those limits. They are built out of a mix of conclusions, beliefs, opinions, attitudes, past experiences, and social learning.
What are boundaries?