Maintenance/Prevention
This is who has mental health.
What is everyone?
Mental Illness can change the way people _________.
Think, feel, and/or act.
This is someone at your school who you can go to if you need help.
Who is my school counselor, social worker, nurse, teacher, or trusted adult.
This is a way that I can help a friend journeying through mental illness.
What is starting the conversation, offering support, encouraging them, sharing resources and education, and checking in with them regularly.
These are chemical compounds used to treat mental illness?
This is the percentage of adults who did not seek treatment for mental illness in 2022.
What is half (50%)?
Feeling sad for two or more weeks, hearing or believing things that aren’t real, and trying to harm oneself are all examples of _______.
Warning signs that someone may benefit from mental health support.
This is the number for the suicide and crisis lifeline.
What is 988?
This is what I can do if a friend needs immediate help.
What is asking about it (i.e., “Are you thinking about suicide”), not leaving them alone, telling an adult, calling or texting 988, or going to the hospital.
This is a way that mental illness can be treated through talking, thinking, or changing behaviors, thoughts, emotions, or stimuli.
What is therapy?
This is an example of positive coping strategies.
What is getting appropriate sleep, writing/journaling, listening to music, exercising, eating a healthy diet, and healthy socialization?
This is a warning sign that someone may need immediate help.
What is talking, writing, or drawing about death; feeling hopeless, desperate, or trapped; giving away possessions; behaving recklessly; looking for ways to commit suicide; talking about not being here tomorrow, being a burden on others, or having no reason to live.
This is one of the biggest reasons people don’t seek treatment for mental illness.
What is stigma?
This is a way to fight mental health stigma.
What is talking, educating, using sensitive language, encouraging equality between physical and mental health, showing compassion, expressing empowerment over shame, being honest about treatment, calling out stigma, and avoiding self-stigma?
This is a reason why mental illness may occur.
What are Gene-environment interactions?