Name That Diagnosis
Mental Health 2.0
How To Cope
Positive Mental Health
Celebrities
100
Symptoms: low mood (sad, empty, hopeless), less interest in doing things you used to like, daily insomnia or hypersomnia, significant unintentional weight change, changes in motor functioning, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, poor concentration, & frequent thoughts of death.
What is Depression (or) Major Depressive Disorder?
100
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is TRUE?
100
What is the recommended treatment for mental health disorders in general?
What are psychotherapy and psychiatric medications?
100
Name 3 things you can do to help a friend who thinks they may have a mental health problem.
Listen to them, spend time with them, encourage them to seek help, help them make appointments/go with them. If it is serious then tell someone else
100
This pop musician had the words "Stay" & "Strong" tattooed on their wrists to decrease their impulse to cut shortly after publicly sharing their bipolar diagnosis in 2011.
Demi Lovato
200
Symptoms: unreasonable & obsessive thoughts or fears that compel a person to respond in a compulsive or ritualized way to manage their fear/anxiety.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
200
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is FALSE?
200
This coping strategy for managing emotions is known as the simplest, it is free, effective, and no one would notice you're doing it.
What is deep breathing?
200
What are two things that can promote positive mental health?
Mindfulness, positive friendships, talking about your problems, having an outlet for anger and frustration, getting enough sleep, self care.
200
This Olympic swimmer was diagnosed with ADHD at age 9 which made it hard for him to concentrate in school
Michael Phelps
300
Symptoms: racing heart, sweating, trembling or shaking, sensations of shortness of breath or smothering, feelings of choking, chest pain or discomfort, nausea or abdominal distress, feeling dizzy/faint, change in body temperature, paresthesia (numbness or tingling), derealization (feelings of unreality) or depersonalization (being detached from oneself), fear of losing control or “going crazy.", and or fear of dying.
What is a panic attack?
300
True or false: There is such a thing as a healthy amount of stress.
True! Some stress can be motivating and is a natural reaction your body has to certain events. It can sometimes give us an "extra push". When stress becomes too much to handle, that might be an indication to start making some positive mental health changes.
300
Name two healthy coping skills.
What are journaling, reading, coloring, listening to music, processing, replaying the tape, mindfulness, meditating, grounding, breathing exercises?
300
Knowing your values and engaging in self-exploration are important for surviving depression. Each person on the team, name one value that is important to you.
(hint: if someone can take it from you, it doesn't count as a value)
Some examples: Compassion, Honesty, Kindness
Integrity Selflessness Determination Generosity
Courage Tolerance Trustworthiness Equanimity
Altruism Appreciation Empathy Toughness
Self-Reliance Attentiveness
300
This classical composer was diagnosed with a serious case of Bipolar disorder - which is characterized by periods of extreme highs and extreme lows.
Ludwig van Beethoven
400
Symptoms: excessive & uncontrollable worry that can cause- restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, and/or sleep disturbance. The worry causes "clinically significant distress".
What is anxiety (or) Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
400
True or False: medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
False: medication can be helpful, but therapy and counseling are also effective forms of overcoming mental illness.
400
This is a coping strategy where you practice expressing good things from your day.
What is gratitude or having a gratitude practice?
400
This professional's job is listen non-judgmentally, point out patterns to help clients learn about themselves, teach coping strategies, make appropriate referrals, & provide a safe place to learn & practice social skills.
What is a therapist?
400
This iconic musical superstar revealed she struggled with Depression in 2006 after her former group, Destiny's Child, disbanded.
Beyonce
500
Symptoms: mood disturbance, increased irritability and three of the following symptoms lasting longer than 1 week- Inflated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep (<3 hours), more talkative than usual, racing thoughts, increased distractibility, increase in goal-directed activity, excessive involvement in activities that have a high potential for painful/negative consequences (i.e.- impulsive shopping or high risk sexual activities).
What is a Manic Episode?
500
True or False: You can always tell when someone has a mental illness.
What is FALSE?
500
This coping strategy/daily practice has cultural roots in eastern philosophy and, while challenging to do, it has the most concrete evidence proving it's effective for long term stress management by achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
What is meditation?
500
Name the four modules of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
What are mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness?
500
This 16th president of the United States suffered from depression and anxiety attacks
Abraham Lincoln
600
Exposure to “event”- actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence by direct experience, witnessing it in-person, it happening to a close friend/family member, or being exposed to extreme details (i.e.- first responders).
Symptoms: distressing memories of the event, dreams/nightmares, intentional avoidance of memories (thoughts, feelings, specific people or places), amnesia, self-blame, hypervigilance, easily startled, & other symptoms of depression.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
600
True or False: Starting medication treatment means I will have to take them for the rest of my life.
What is False? Some people may need life long support others will not.
600
Where can you go for support in a crisis?
What is hospital, supportive family/friends, therapist, call/text hotline
Suicide hotline: 988
600
Tolerance (when you need more of something to get the same effect) and withdrawal (physical and psychological symptoms related to stopping an activity or substance) are symptoms of...
What is addiction?
600
"I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it feels like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anybody else to feel like that."
- Comedian with chronic depression
Robin Williams