Mental Health Facts
What are negative attitudes and beliefs that motivate people to fear, reject, avoid and discriminate against people with mental illnesses. It is the use of negative labels to identify a person living with mental illness.
What is stigma?
A change in behavior that indicates someone is feeling suicidal and needs help immediately.
What is a warning sign?
A mental condition characterized by excessive worry- typically leading to avoidance behaviors and often to physical symptoms such as increased heart rate and muscle tension
What is Anxiety?
Are we all born with self esteem?
No!
Who at school could you go to for mental health help?
Mental health therapist, counselor, teacher
What is a major mood disorder which is characterized by a loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life and severe persistent sadness that lasts for more than 2 weeks
What is depression?
Anything in your life that increases the chances of experiencing a mental health condition or suicidal thoughts
What is a risk factor?
Attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
Name 1 thing that shapes self esteem.
Parents, Friends, Family, Teachers, Social Media, Achievements and Failures, Expectations
What is the suicide prevention hotline number?
988
How many people experience a mental illness?
What is 1 in 5 people?
Something that keeps you safe and decreases or lowers the risk of experiencing a mental condition or suicidal thoughts.
What is a protective factor?
Characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears that lead to behaviors.
OCD
Define self esteem.
A measure of how much you values, respect, and feel confident about yourself.
If you believe someone is immediate danger of taking their life, what should you do?
Call 911
Name 1 way mental health illness are similar to a physical illness and 1 way they are different.
Both can have symptoms that can negatively impact your life if not treated properly. Both require a diagnosis and treatment.
Differences: Physical: symptoms are viable, Mental: Symptoms are not as visible.
Name 2 characteristics of someone with good mental health?
Accept the world as it is and are realistic
Like themselves
Act Freely; be themselves and make their own decisions
Can express their feelings and can handle their emotions
Have good relationships and communicate well
Take responsibility for their own actions
Work towards their goals, achieve for the future.
A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event
PTSD
What is the difference between your ideal self and your self concept?
Your self concept is how you see yourself and your ideal self is how you would like to be.
Who is our Police Liaison Officer?
Officer Hamberg (Bugs)
Name 1 cause of mental illness?
Inherited traits, environmental exposures (events), and brain chemistry
Name 2 characteristics of someone with poor mental health?
Have changes in their thoughts, feelings, actions and memory
Experience distress and disruption to life
May lack coping skills
May be unable to express their feelings, thoughts, and emotions
May struggled maintaining relationships
May feel apathetic (show little interest or concern for self or others)
Lack self confidence
A disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel, and behave clearly. It is characterized by delusions and hallucinations
What is schizophrenia?
Positive self talk, act with integrity, accept yourself, and choose supportive friends
Name 1 local resource in Holland.
Community Mental Health, Arbor Circle, Children's Advocacy Center, Holland Behavioral Health, Resilience, Pine Rest, Holland Hospital