Facts & Statistics
What 1 in 5 adults suffer from in the United States today.
What are mental health challenges?
Exhaustion, confusion, sadness, anxiety, agitation, numbness, dissociation and confusion are common responses to this.
What are initial responses to trauma?
Names like weed, pot, dope, grass, skunk, herb, and Mary Jane are nicknames for this popular drug.
What is marijuana?
This task of writing down your thoughts and feelings to understand them more clearly can help you gain control of your emotions and improve your mental health.
What is journaling?
This is an intense and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations.
What is anxiety?
The amount of adults in the United States that experience mental health challenges.
What is 50 million?
This is your body's reaction to a stressful or frightening situation, whether you deal with that situation or deter from it.
What is fight or flight response?
This is how individuals choose to handle stress and difficult emotions (i.e. breathing, prayer, etc.)
What are coping mechanisms?
This is a spirit or being that has great power, strength and knowledge, and it can affect nature and the lives of people.
What is a higher power?
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
What is a traumatic event?
This type of relaxing exercise offers help both physically and mentally. Using poses like Downward Dog, Warrior pose and many more.
What is Yoga?
Persistent fatigue, sleep disturbances, nightmares, fear of recurrence, anxiety, depression, and avoidance of emotions are examples or responses to this.
What are long term effects of trauma?
This opiod is up to 100 times more potent than morphine.
What is fentanyl?
This is a medicine that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose.
What is Narcan/Naloxone?
Starting a new job or learning a new hobby.
What are some positive stressors?
The average delay time between initial mental health symptoms and initial treatment.
What is 11 years?
This is a variety of treatments that aim to help a person identify and change troubling emotions, thoughts, and behaviors with a trusted clinician.
What is therapy?
This step in the 12 steps of AA/NA is the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
What is the 5th step, integrity?
The National Suicide Hotline, the STL Behavioral Health Number and the Emergency Phone Number are examples of these.
What are free crisis lines?
The capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties.
What is resilience?
This activity helps someone take care of their physical health can also improve one's mental health.
What is exercise/working out/going outside?
The cumulative burden of chronic stress and life events.
What is allostatic load?
Drowsiness, constipation, nausea, vomiting and slow breathing are symptoms of this painkiller drug.
What are opioids/opiates?
In addition to the health benefits, serving with a local non-profit or other entity can increase a sense of belonging and purpose.
What is volunteering?
A chemical response that enables the brain to function and communicate with the body, including Dopamine and Serotonin.
What are neurotransmitters?