Mental Illnesses/Disorders
A serious mood disorder causing persistent sadness, hopelessness, and loss of interest in activities, lasting at least two weeks, and significantly interfering with daily life, affecting sleep, appetite, energy, and concentration.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
The negative attitudes, stereotypes, and discrimination directed at people with mental health conditions, leading to shame, exclusion, and barriers to treatment.
What is mental health stigma?
A coping skill that uses slow, intentional breaths to activate the body's relaxation response.
What is deep breathing?
This is the phone number to the suicide and crisis lifeline.
What is 988?
Your emotional, psychological, and social well-being, affecting how you think, feel, act, handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.
What is mental health?
Persistent, excessive, and uncontrollable worry about everyday things that's out of proportion to the actual situation, lasts most days for at least six months, and makes it hard to control the worry, often leading to physical symptoms like restlessness, fatigue, and sleep problems.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Comments like "You're crazy" or "Just snap out of it" are examples of this type of language related to mental health.
What is stigmatizing language?
The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique engages these senses to bring focus to the present moment.
What are 5 things you see, 4 you feel, 3 you hear, 2 you smell, 1 you taste?
A certified educator providing holistic support for students' academic, career, and social-emotional development.
What is a school counselor?
A condition that alters a person’s behavior or thinking, especially in a way that has an undesirable impact on some aspect of their life.
What is a mental illness?
Long-term patterns of unstable emotions, self-image, and behavior, leading to impulsive actions and chaotic relationships, often driven by intense fear of abandonment and difficulty regulating intense feelings like anger or emptiness.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
A major consequence of mental health stigma is that individuals are less likely to do this essential action.
What is seek help/treatment?
This brain chemical, often associated with pleasure and reward, is released during physical exercise, which contributes to an improved mood.
What is dopamine/endorphins/serotonin?
While 988 is for crises, this non-profit organization provides support, education, and advocacy for families affected by mental illness, and is often the primary local resource for community support groups.
What is the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)?
The average teenager is recommended to get this many hours of sleep per night, a key factor in positive mental health.
What is 8-10 hours?
Two or more distinct identity states (alters) that recurrently take control, often accompanied by memory gaps (amnesia) for personal information and traumatic events, usually developing as a severe coping mechanism for overwhelming childhood trauma.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Inaccurate or misleading portrayals in movies and TV shows often contribute to public misunderstanding and stigma.
Who are media representations?
The act of creating a different way of looking at a situation or relationship by changing its meaning to manage one's emotional response.
What is re-framing?
For individuals experiencing a mental health crisis who require immediate, mobile intervention without police involvement, many areas utilize these teams, which is often abbreviated as CIT.
What is a Crisis Intervention Team?
Mental health problems typically begin to show symptoms by this age range for 50% of people?
What is 14 years old?
A childhood behavioral disorder marked by a persistent pattern of anger, irritability, defiance, and vindictiveness towards authority figures like parents, teachers, and peers, lasting over six months.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
When people internalize negative beliefs, leading them to experience feelings of shame, anger, hopelessness, or despair that keep them from seeking social support, employment, or treatment for their mental health conditions.
What is self-stigma?
This type of therapy identifies and changes negative thought patterns and behaviors linked to issues like depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
This federal agency, part of the National Institute of Health (NIH), is the lead entity for research on mental disorders, with the mission to "transform the understanding and treatment of mental illnesses."
What is the National Institute of Mental Health?
According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), this is the national color for mental health awareness, often represented by a ribbon.
What is green?