Definitions
Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act.
What is Mental Health?
Give 4 coping strategies for anxiety.
-Talking with someone
-Therapy
-Substance Use
-Self-harm
The most commonly used drug in the nation
Feelings of extreme sadness, shame, or guilt
The practice or an instance of keeping away from a particular situations, environments, individuals, or things because of either the anticipated negative consequences or anxious/painful feelings associated with them.
What is Avoidance?
The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.
What are Coping Skills?
Name 4 healthy coping skills that has not been yet said
What is leaving a bad situation, taking a walk, breathing, draw, exercise, pet your animal, or do something you enjoy?
Organs most affected by vaping
Lungs and the brain
Characterized by a clinically significant disturbance in a person's cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior
What are Mental Disorders?
Can change a person's mental or physical state. They can affect the way your brain works, how you feel and behave.
What are drugs?
A pattern of continued substance use despite substance-related problems, distress, and or impairment.
What is Substance Abuse?
What are coping mechanisms that are associated with poor mental health outcomes. List two of them as well.
What are Maladaptive Coping Skills (Negative): -Overworking
-Substance Use
-Self-harming
-Emotional eating
-Avoidance
Why do teens feel dependent on drugs or alcohol?
What is thinking they need the drug to function, to relax, or to combat stress?
Trouble paying attention, controlling impulsive behaviors (acting without thinking), or being overly active.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Cognitive distortion that prompts people to jump to the worst possible conclusion, usually with limited information or objective reason.
Ex: "People always hurt me", "The world is dangerous"
What is Catastrophizing?
The anguish experienced after significant loss, usually the death of a beloved person.
What is grief?
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Having to take more of a substance to get high
What is Tolerance?
A mental disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person's mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration. These shifts can make it difficult to carry out day-to-day tasks
Bipolar Disorder
Experiencing a strong negative emotional reaction in response to a current situation that is disturbing to you in some way.
What are triggers?
Awareness of one's internal states and surroundings. It can help people avoid destructive or automatic habits and responses by learning to observe their thoughts, emotions, and other present-moment experiences without judging or reacting to them.
What is Mindfulness?
A place for a person to keep things that calm them down in periods of distress.
What is a Coping Skills Toolbox?
This "feel good" chemical in the brain is released when a person uses substances
What is Dopamine?
What is the Walking Corpse Syndrome?
Human behavior is influenced by unconscious memories, thoughts, and urges.
Who is Sigmund Freud?