Brain Basics
This organ weighs about 3 lbs and controls thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
What is the brain?
This Pixar movie shows emotions like Joy and Sadness living inside a girl's mind.
What is Inside Out?
Name one of the five senses used in grounding exercises.
What is sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell?
What is the most common mental health condition in the U.S.?
What is Anxiety?
1 in how many people globally have a mental health condition? Over or under 8?
What is 4?
This part of the brain helps with decision-making and impulse control.
What is the frontal lobe?
This Olympic swimmer has spoken publicly about depression and ADHD.
Who is Michael Phelps?
Breathing in for 4, holding for 4, and out for 4 is often called this.
What is box breathing?
This diagnosis is characterized by intense, alternating mood swings between extreme highs and profound lows.
What is Manic-Depressive or Bipolar Disorder?
Percentage of adults with a mental health condition who receive treatment? Over or under 50%?
What is under 50%?
This chemical messenger in the brain affects mood and is often linked to depression.
What is serotonin?
This singer of "Shake It Off" has discussed struggles with anxiety and body image.
Who is Taylor Swift?
What is the quality or state of being conscious or aware of something; A mental state achieved by focusing on the present and one's thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a structured and goal-driven therapeutic method that helps individuals break cycles of negative thoughts, emotions and behaviors is considered the gold standard for treatment of what diagnosis?
What is Depression?
True or False: People with depression have a 40% higher risk of developing cardiac disease, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or obesity than the general population.
This system in the body activates "fight or flight".
What is the nervous system?
This actor and comedian, known for Mrs. Doubtfire, struggled with depression.
Who is Robin Williams?
True or False: Coping skills can be positive and negative.
What is True. When a coping skill is overly relied upon and used to avoid addressing important things, a positive coping skill can become negative.
True or False: Bipolar I Disorder includes episodes of mania, whereas Bipolar II Disorder requires the presence of hypomania episodes.
What is True, Bipolar II is characterized by hypomanic episodes - less severe than mania, and often followed by periods of depression.
True or False: Over 10% of emergency department visits made by U.S. adults each year are related to mental health.
What is True (12.3%)?
The brain can change and form new connections throughout life. What is this called?
What is Neuroplasticity?
This pop star has been open about living with bipolar disorder and founded the Born This Way Foundation.
Who is Lady Gaga?
True or False: Exercise releases stress-reducing chemicals like cortisol.
What is False.
Cortisol is a stress-inducing chemical hormone that increases anxiety.
What condition is marked by unstable moods and self-image?
What is borderline personality disorder?
BPD is a chronic mental health condition characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability in moods, self-image, behavior, and relationships. People with BPD often experience intense emotional outbursts, fear of abandonment, impulsivity, and self-harming behaviors.
True or False: 1 in 10 U.S. adults experienced both a substance use disorder and mental illness.
What is False (1 in 15)?