Mental Health
The broad term used to describe a condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions can impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is mental illness?
True or False: All stress is harmful.
False: stress can be positive, such as when it helps you avoid danger or meet a deadline. But when stress lasts for a long time, it may harm your health.
When a person uses food as a way to deal with feelings instead of to satisfy hunger.
What is emotional eating?
A coping skill you can use in stressful situations (sports especially) to help change your course of thoughts.
What is positive self-talk?
TRUE or FALSE: More than 50% Americans will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their lifetime.
True
Name two things you can do to help a friend who thinks they may have a mental health problem.
Listen to them.
Spend time with them.
Encourage them to seek help.
If it is serious, tell someone else.
A medical illness characterized by persistent sadness and a lack of interest or pleasure in previously rewarding or enjoyable activities.
What is depression?
An automatic physiological reaction to a stressful/frightening event. The perception of threat activates the sympathetic nervous system and triggers an acute stress response that prepares the body to respond appropriately.
What is the fight or flight response?
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
False.
Where can you go for support in a mental health crisis?
A clinic, hospital, supportive family/friends, therapist, call/text hotline.
Suicide hotline.
A type of depression that is brought on by the brain’s response to shorter daylight hours.
What is SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)?
It's when you contract (flex) a group of muscles tightly, keeping them flexed for about 5 seconds, then release. Then you repeat the exercise several times, before moving to a different muscle group.
What is Muscle Relaxation?
Having repeated episodes of sudden, unexpected, intense fear symptoms: heart pounding, having trouble breathing, or feeling dizzy, shaky, or sweaty
What is a panic/anxiety attack?
Assistance from these (and being consistent in taking them) allows us to focus the mind to achieve a clearer and calmer state.
What are coping skills?
A mental health condition that is brought on by trauma.
What is PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)?
A hormone that helps your body prepare for danger as part of the stress response.
What is adrenaline? OR What is cortisol?
The well-being of your thoughts, mindsets, beliefs. Also includes your self-image.
What is psychological health? OR What is psychological well-being?
A state of worry or mental tension directly caused by a difficult situation.
What is stress?
A disorder that causes extreme ups and downs in a person’s mood and energy called depression and mania, respectively.
What is biopolar disorder?
This is a therapeutic technique where you focus your awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
What is mindfulness?