Healthy Habits
A common used device which oftentimes increases the occurrence of anxiety, stress, and depression.
What are phones and/or social media?
The word for disapproval of or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics, such as those who struggle with mental illness.
What is stigma?
A phenomenon which occurs in human society which may likely lead to a wide range of mental health challenges.
What is inequality or inequity?
Mental Health struggles or illnesses are often wrongly attributed to this.
What is weakness or lack of perseverance?
Most common events which cause mental health struggles.
What is childhood abuse, trauma, or neglect?
An activity which calms the nervous system and lowers a person's blood pressure and heart rate.
What is breath-work or meditation or yoga?
The two most reported mental health struggles in the US during the pandemic.
What is anxiety and depression?
A diet which is associated with having a 33% lower risk of suffering from depression.
What is the Mediterranean diet?
Many people wrongly believe that those with this type of mental illness are the only ones who should seek out help or therapy.
What is people with severe mental health?
(Everyone has mental health, therefore everyone is capable and deserving of taking care of it, no matter the severity.)
The most common age group to struggle with mental health problems.
What is 16-25?
(or teenage years to early adulthood.)
The success rate (in a percentage) of treating mental illnesses with medication.
What is between 70 and 90 percent?
The average number of years before a person contacts help or receives treatment.
What is 11 years?
The number of Americans who struggle with mental illness as of 2023.
What is about 50 million Americans?
The percentage of people with a serious mental health issue that commit violent acts.
What is 3-5% of people?
The age-group and gender most likely to suffer from eating disorders.
What is teenage girls?
An activity that can reduce stress levels by 60%, even after only six minutes of it.
What is reading?
(Reading can reduce one's heart rate, improve sleep, enhance communication between the two brain hemispheres, and even rewire and create new neural networks inside the brain.)
A crucial aspect of human's life which improves their mental health, and is often ruined by the use of phones or technology.
What is social connection and/or community?
(Social isolation and loneliness are risk factors for poor mental health, poor physical health, and actually predict earlier deaths from all causes.)
Most commonly misdiagnosed mental illness.
What is bipolar disorder?
A common misconception that people who have this are are void of mental health struggles.
What is people with supportive friends/family, money, or privilege of any kind.
The country with the worst mental health in the world. Roughly 6.3% of their population is depressed. (hint: it begins with a vowel)
What is Ukraine?
An activity which reduces the risk of a number of mental struggles, namely depression and dementia, by about 20%-30%.
What is exercise?
A word for the state of being objective or aloof, oftentimes associated with depression, PTSD, or borderline personality disorder.
What is detachment?
A crucial, part of a person's day, in which the body works to support healthy brain function and physical health. A lack of this could lead to an increase risk of many mental health issues and other diseases.
What is sleep?
Two adjectives that many people wrongly assume every mental health issue is.
What is neither severe nor permanent?
Two events or factors that double the rate of mental health disorders. (hint: think naturally occurring & historical)
What is war and living through a natural disaster?