Mental Health Terminology
A condition in which a person is unable to stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior.
What is Addiction?
This is the most popular social media platform in the world. It's colors are blue and white, and it's logo is a lowercase F.
What is Facebook?
Thinking in absolutes such as “always,” “never,” or “every.” “I never do a good enough job on anything.
What is All-or-Nothing Thinking?
This is the name of the sport that the Philadelphia Flyers play.
What is Hockey?
This is one of the most common treatments for mental health disorders. It involves talking about your problems with a mental health professional.
What is Therapy/Counseling/Psychotherapy?
A state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress which results in distress. It is an occupational phenomenon that is caused due to chronic workplace stress arising from unmanaged tasks or compromised output levels in the workplace.
What is Burnout?
This social media platform focuses primarily on pictures and short-form videos called Reels. It is also owned by the same company that owns Facebook.
What is Instagam?
The belief that things should be a certain way. “I should always be perfect.”
What are Should Statements?
This is how many players are allowed on the ice at once per team during play.
What is 6? (5 skaters, 1 goalie)
These groups can help you gain insight into your condition. They can provide friendships, support, resources, and tips on how to live with your condition. They also help address the feelings of isolation that often go along with mental health conditions. They do not always involve a licensed mental health professional.
What are Support Groups?
A disturbance of cognition where a person has fixed false beliefs that something has occurred or will occur that is not real. A common example is the belief that someone is trying to harm them, even though nobody is.
What is a Delusion?
This social media platform's mascot is a white ghost on a yellow background.
What is Snapchat?
Interpreting the thoughts and beliefs of others without adequate evidence. “They wouldn’t go on a date with me. They probably think I’m ugly.”
What is Mind Reading?
This is the Flyers' mascot.
Who is Gritty?
The branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. The person who provides services is a medical doctor.
What is Psychiatry?
The inability to feel pleasure.
What is Anhedonia?
This social media platform was active from 2012 to 2017. The colors of this app were green and white.
What is Vine?
The belief that thoughts, actions, or emotions influence unrelated situations. "If I hadn't hoped something bad would happen to him, he wouldn't have gotten into an accident."
What is Magical Thinking?
This is the name of one of the Flyers' players currently on the team?
Who is (any of the players)?
This type of therapy is used to relieve psychological stress. It has become an effective way to help treat trauma, especially post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It involves bi-lateral stimulation, usually of the eyes.
What is Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing?
An anxiety disorder in which a person who is otherwise capable of speech becomes unable to speak when exposed to specific situations, specific places, or to specific people, one or multiple of which serving as triggers.
What is Selective Mutism?
This is the oldest social media platform developed in the United States and is still active today.
What is LinkedIn?
The assumption that emotions reflect the way things really are. “I feel like a bad friend, therefore I must be a bad friend.”
What is Emotional Reasoning?
This is the name of the current Philadelphia Flyers head coach?
Who is Rick Tocchet?
This is a noninvasive neurostimulation technique in which a changing magnetic field is used to induce an electric current in a targeted area of the brain through electromagnetic induction
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?