True or False
You can catch a mental illness from someone who has it, it is contagious
Getting enough of this so I feel rested, usually 9-12 hours.
What is sleep?
This is something I can take using my nose and my mouth.
What is a deep breath?
Define healthy coping skills
Coping skills that are not harmful to you or others.
This affects a person’s thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is Mental Health?
If you’re feeling sad one day, you are depressed
False
If you’re sad one day you are having a poor mental health day and you can do things to cheer yourself up like exercising, getting outside and doing something you love to do. One day of feeling sad does not mean you are depressed.
Noticing _______ so I can use strategies if they are getting too big to control.
What are feelings?
This is saying kind and helpful things about myself
What is positive self talk?
Define negative coping skills
Coping skills that are harmful to you or others & that keep you from addressing your needs effectively.
This is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you should act.
What is depression?
Everyone has mental health
True
Your mental health can change day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute, but everyone has mental health.
Doing this by letting my parent or grown up know that I need a break.
What is taking space?
I can do this by using my words or coming up with a signal to give to people!
This is when I focus, and work on paying attention to one thing at a time.
What is mindfulness?
Which of the coping skills below are unhealthy?
Taking a walk
Destroying property
Exercising
Talking to a trusted friend or adult
Yelling at someone
Playing a game
Hair pulling
Destroying property
Yelling at someone
Hair pulling
Negative, incorrect beliefs, stereotypes, and labels are another name for this
What is stigma?
If someone in your family has a mental illness, you will also be diagnosed with a mental illness
False.
Although some illnesses seem to have a genetic link, just because someone in your family has a mental illness does not mean that you will have one, too. Everybody has their own genetic makeup, and you are an individual
Moving my body by going on a walk, running around, or trying some yoga.
What is get exercise?
This allows me to move my body and can work to help my body to regulate.
What is exercise?
TRUE OR FALSE
Coping skills are a one-size fits all solution
FALSE !!
Coping skills are unique to everyone.
When is Mental Health Awareness Month celebrated?
What is May?
Kids can’t have a mental illness like depression, those are adults’ illnesses
False.
Children can experience mental illnesses. In fact, many mental illnesses appear when children are young.
Having balance through this and how much I have and noticing how _________ plays into my mood and how I feel.
What is food?
This is doing something I enjoy for a brief time before returning back to something that is challenging.
What is distraction?
What are examples of emotional awareness coping skills ?
Journaling
Talking to a trusted friend or adult
Mindfulness
Art/Music
Changing perspective/thoughts
When the symptoms you are experiencing are given a name.
What is a diagnosis?