Coping Skills
Symptoms
Myth or Fact?
Independent Living Skills
Trivia
100
This coping skills includes bathing, brushing your teeth, and combing your hair.
What is hygiene?
100
Seeing, hearing, or feeling something that other's cannot detect
What are hallucinations?
100
Myth or Fact: People with mental health problems are violent and unpredictable.
Myth! Most people with mental illness are not violent or unpredictable. 
100
This skill involves preparing healthy and nutritious food.
What is cooking?
100
This little blue droid only beeps in this popular film series.
What is R2-D2?
200
This coping skill includes taking a walk, a bike ride, or going to the gym.
What is exercise?
200
False beliefs that are not based in reality
What are delusions?
200
Myth or Fact: People with mental health problems can hold a job.
Fact! People with mental health problems are just as productive as other employees. 
200
This skill involves cleaning your clothing.
What is laundry?
200
This historical figure appears on the $100 dollar bill. 
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
300
This coping skill includes eating a healthy meal and choosing healthy snacks.
What is nutrition?
300
Intense feelings of sadness that persist over time and a lack of interest in things you used to enjoy
What is depression?
300
Myth or Fact: People with mental health problems are lazy, weak, and have personality flaws and they could snap out of it if they tried hard enough.
Myth! Mental health problems are not due to being lazy, weak, or due to personality flaws. Many factors contribute to mental health problems and many factors are not changed simply by trying hard to "get over it." What can help manage our mental health symptoms?
300

This skill involves going to a store and choosing healthy food items and personal items. 

What is grocery shopping?
300
The name of the little dog in the Wizard of Oz.
Who is Toto?
400
This coping skill involves taking your mind off the problem by focusing on something else. 
What is distraction?
400
Racing thoughts, sweaty palms, increased heart rates are signs of this symptom
What is anxiety?
400
Myth or Fact: People with mental illness get better and can recover completely. 
Fact! Some believe there is no hope for people with mental illness, but in fact many can overcome their symptoms and live full lives. 
400
This skill involves managing your money.
What is budgeting?
400
Scooby-Doo is this type of dog.
What is a great dane?


He made his first big screen appearance on September 13th 1969 on the CBS show "Scooby-Doo Where Are You?"

500
This coping skill includes inhaling calming smells or filling the room with a calming fragrance.
What is aromatherapy?
500
This symptom involves manic episodes of extreme energy and lack of sleep and depressive episodes including increased sleepiness
What is bipolar?
500
Myth or Fact: Therapy and self-help is a waste of time. Why bother with this when you can just take a pill?
Myth! Therapy is not a waste of time.Treatment will vary by person and can include both medication and therapy. Therapy and group supports can be beneficial while going through the healing and recovery process. 
500
This skills involves using the public transportation system.
What is using the bus?
500
This U.S. state has the longest coastline. 
What is Alaska?


It has 6,640 miles of coastline!

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