A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
What is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
True or False: Everyone utilizes the same coping skills.
False
True or False: 50.5% of adults in the U.S. who have had a problem with substance abuse also suffer from mental illness.
True
In the past PTSD was called
What is Shell Shock
Causes severe mood swings, from the highest of highs to the lowest of the lows.
What is Bipolar
A natural way to get in shape and increase feelings of happiness is to ______.
What is exercise
What is the #1 most diagnosed mental disorder?
What is Depression
In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association removed Asperger's Disorder from the DSM, offering instead the new DSM-5 diagnosis _______.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder
Characterized by repetitive, unwanted, intrusive thoughts and irrational, excessive urges to do certain actions.
What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
This coping skill requires you to write your thoughts down on paper.
What is journaling
True or False: 20% of people who died by suicide had a known mental health condition in 2020.
False. 46%
The "father of American psychiatry," was the first to believe that mental illness is a disease of the mind and not a "possession of demons."
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush
Feeling emotions intensely and for extended periods of time, and it is harder for them to return to a stable baseline after an emotionally triggering event.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder
Practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activities.
What is Meditation
50% of all lifetime mental illness begins by age
What is age 14
In ____ (year), the American Psychiatric Association (APA) removed the diagnosis of “homosexuality” from the second edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).
What is 1973
A person who has multiple distinct personalities. The various identities control a person's behavior at different times.
What is Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Name a benefit of having coping skills.
What is ability to decrease symptoms of mental health disorder or cravings, better management of emotions, better mood, improve self-esteem, etc.
One cause of depression is an imbalance in ____. (Hint: something in the brain)
What are chemicals in the brain (neurotransmitters)
Court case were Supreme Court ruled that states cannot confine a non-dangerous individual who can survive on his own, or with help from family and friends.
What is O'Connor v. Kenneth Donaldson