Anxiety
What does 5210 mean?
- 5 or more servings of fruits or vegetables per day.
- 2 or fewer hours of recreational screen time per day.
- 1 or more hours of physical activity per day.
- 0 sugary drinks per day.
What does resiliency mean?
Resiliency is the ability to withstand adversity, and to get back up after getting knocked down.
What is time management?
Time management is the effective or productive use of time.
What is depression?
Depression is a medical disorder that causes feelings of sadness and/or loss of interest, which interferes with one's daily life.
What is stress?
Stress is a mental or emotional strain due to adversity.
What is a Closed Mind-Set?
A Closed Mind-Set is a mindset of avoiding challenges and learning opportunities, sticking to your current skills instead of learning more, and seeing effort as pointless.
Will everyone need to have resiliency at some point?
Yes, everyone will dome across difficulties in which they must get back up after being knocked down.
How common is procrastination?
More than 80% of students have identified themselves as a procrastinator in a recent survey.
Are there multiple types of depression?
Yes, many kinds of depression exist. Among these are Psychotic Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Seasonal Affective Disorder, and more.
Can stress lead to medical issues?
Long-term stress can lead to an increased risk of mental health and physical health problems.
What is a Growth Mind-Set?
A Growth Mind-Set is a mindset of accepting challenges and learning opportunities, learning new skills, and seeing effort as a path to mastery.
What is the Besht model of natural resilience?
The Besht model is a model of building an ideal family with four key markers.
- Realistic upbringing
- Effective risk communications
- Positivity and restructuring of demanding situations
- Building self efficacy and hardiness
What is the 80:20 rule?
The 80:20 rule states that roughly 80% of outcomes come from roughly 20% of causes. So 20% of all solutions produce 80% of the good results.
Are men more likely to not be diagnosed with depression than women?
Yes, often due to societal expectations which cause many men to rarely show emotion
What is the negativity bias?
The negativity bias is the concept that people are affected by negative stimuli more than a positive stimuli of equal scale.
What is the difference between focusing on your goal, and focusing on your journey?
Only focusing on your goal will give you satisfaction when you reach that goal, but will not be satisfying on the way there. focusing on your journey gives you satisfaction while you work to attain your goal, and satisfaction for reaching that goal.
What are the 7 C's of resiliency?
Child pediatrician and human development expert Dr Ginsburg says the 7 C's of resiliency are Competence, Confidence, Connection, Character, Contribution, Coping, and Control.
How long does it take to focus again after being distracted?
10 minutes, as has been proven by numerous studies.
What is the difference between Persistent Depressive Disorder (PDD), and Major Depression Disorder (MDD)?
To oversimplify, PDD usually are less intense or debilitating, but are longer-lasting than MDD.
How can stress affect you physically?
Stress can affect you physically by activating your fight, flight or freeze response, and giving you things such as headaches, low energy, and stomach pain.
What is the reverse Zeigarnik effect?
The Zeigarnik effect is how stress can often being relieved by having an outlet to talk about them, such as talking to someone or even writing it down.
How does adversity make you stronger?
According to Paula Davis, adversity can make you stronger by increasing empathy for others, building your self-efficacy, and reframe stress as a challenge to beat.
What is the POSEC method?
POSEC is an acronym for "Prioritize by Organizing, Streamlining, Economizing and Contributing".
- Prioritize your time and define your goals
- Organize things you have to accomplish regularly
- Streamline things you have to do, even if you don't want to
- Economize things less urgent but you should still do
- Contribute by paying attention to other things that make a difference
How can you support someone experiencing depression?
Be consciously present. Actively listen, communicate with them, and be empathetic.
Why is it important to set boundaries?
It's important to set boundaries because they allow you to back out of situations that make you uncomfortable and help prevent stress.