Mental Health
What determines your mental health?
What is your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors
It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices.
What is Stress?
What is,
The physical reaction to the world around you.
Which is not a healthy coping strategy?
A. Writing down your thoughts & feelings
B. Yoga & Meditation
C. Deep breathing
D. Avoid problems until they go away
What is, D. Avoid problems until they go away.
The brain controls our movements, how we sense our environment, and regulates our involuntary body processes such as breathing and controlling our emotions.
True or False
What is true.
Which of the following are impacted by mental disorders?
A. Emotions, Feelings & Habits
B. Thoughts, Positive Mindsets, Emotional Awareness
C. Behaviors, Emotions & Thoughts
D. A & C
C. Behaviors, Emotions & Thoughts
When should you talk to a counselor about unkind thoughts or emotions?
What is,
When they are stronger and last longer than usual.
What type of stress increases your focus, strength, and reaction times in order to help in dangerous situations
What is Healthy Stress
Remember we talked about humankind and how the stress helped them survive in dangerous situations.
What are coping strategies?
What is,
Answers can vary
Things you use to deal with stress and challenges in a positive way.
Mental illnesses can develop as the result of chemical imbalances in the brain.
True or False?
What is True
scientists believe that mental illnesses result from problems with the communication between neurons in the brain (neurotransmission). For example, the level of the neurotransmitter serotonin is lower in individuals who have depression.
Risk factors for mental illness include:
A. Genetic, environmental, and social factors
B. Hygiene, genetics, working too much
C. Social, emotional, and awareness
D. None of the above
What is A. Genetic, environmental, and social factors
Illnesses that are most likely to have a genetic component include autism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and ADHD.
Environmental factors such as head injury, poor nutrition, and exposure to toxins (including lead and tobacco smoke) can increase the likelihood of developing a mental illness.
Social factors: Abuse, neglect, violence, parental conflict, exposure to violence
What are the 4 key areas that can assist with creating positive mental health?
What is,
Positive Mindset
Healthy Habits
Positive Relationships
Emotional Awareness
What are two things you need to work on to be healthy enough to face mental health challenges?
What is mental and physical health
What is "negative self-talk"?
What coping strategy can you use to interrupt the negative cycle of behaviors and emotions?
What is ,
The unkind way that we talk to ourselves.
Reframe
When you notice unkind thoughts, you can try to replace them with kind thoughts
Neurotransmitters along the pathways in the brain are involved in
A. Motivation
B. Motor control
C. Feeling good after doing something
D. B & C
D. All of the above
What is D. All of the above
Neurotransmitters (Dopamine, Serotonin, Norepinephrine, & Peptides)help your brain function Neurons send chemical messages to the brain and the body. This can affect your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Which of these is the best sign that someone might be dealing with a Mental Health Disorder?
A. A really bad headache
B. Unable to complete daily tasks or responsibilities
C. Being annoyed once by friends or parents
D. High Blood Pressure
What is,
B. Unable to complete daily tasks or responsibilities
What are some warning signs that someone needs additional help managing mental health.
What is, Thoughts of self-harm.
Feelings of extreme self-doubt or worthlessness.
Intense anxiety that feels paralyzing.
Not being able to stop crying.
Becoming overly angry or irritable.
Isolating yourself from your friends or family members.
Answers can vary
What is, answers may vary
headaches, an upset stomach, high blood pressure, chest pain, and problems with sleep.
Stress can also lead to emotional problems, depression, panic attacks, or other forms of anxiety
What is a coping strategy that helps weaken the strength of emotions?
Hint? You have a first and last one. Some people have a middle one too.
What is, Naming it
When you have emotions especially challenging & confusing ones. name them. For example, ask yourself if you're feeling anxious or sad. Studies show that emotions like anger, sadness, or pain can reduce their strength and help you plan for what to do about them
Name 3 things that the prefrontal cortex?
Hint: Achieving goals
What is, Making decisions, Planning & organizing, and Focusing and attention
The prefrontal cortex is connected to your ability to plan and helps you accomplish goals. It’s also involved in your social interactions with others. The prefrontal cortex evaluates each situation along with your skills in order to predict what you should do to get the best result.
What percent of teens have experienced depressive disorder in the past year?
What is 13%
Describe each of the 4 areas that assist with creating positive mental health.
Positive Mindset
Healthy Habits
Positive Relationships
Emotional Awareness
Daily Triple (may write answers)
What six functions work together to connect your thoughts, behaviors, and emotions?
What body part plays a role in these functions?
What happens when one or more of these functions is strained?
What is,
Thought, Perception, Emotions, Behaviors, Signaling, & Physical
The Brain
Causes Stress
Daily Double
When stressed our bodies think it’s under attack it switches to...
What is called?
Describe what happens?
What is “Fight or Flight” mode.
Fight or run
Chemical release: Adrenalin, Cortisol, & Norepinephrine
Helps focus attention to respond quickly to dangerous situations…
What part of the brain is responsible for
Storing memories
Processing experiences
Deciding actions to take based on past experiences
Hippocampus
What mental disorder is associated with the following symptoms: Intense feelings of worry, Panic attacks, Difficulty sleeping, Irritability, or feeling on edge. Intense feelings of hopelessness or dread
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What is anxiety