LETS BE REAL...(MYTH VS FACT)
Mental Health Issues are rare
What is a Myth?
Approximately 1 in 5 adolescents between the ages of 15 and 24 report a mental disorder, substance abuse or learning disability. Between 15 and 20 percent of the Canadian adolescent population suffers from a mental disorder at one time or another.
Diagnosis characterized by excessive fear and worry and related behavioral disturbances.
What is Anxiety?
A technique that involves maximizing oxygen intake by using the diaphragm, the muscle separating the chest and abdomen
What is Deep Breathing?
Name 3 things you can do to help a friend who thinks they may have a mental health problem
What is Listen to them, spend time with them, encourage them to seek help, help them make appointments/go with them. If it is serious then tell someone else.?
Is an intensive, structured treatment program designed for individuals who require a higher level of care than traditional outpatient therapy but do not necessitate 24-hour inpatient supervision.
What is Partial Hospitalization Program or Intensive Outpatient?
Mental health symptoms/diagnosis can be passed down genetically
What is Fact?
Generational trauma is when the impact of traumatic experiences, either individual (like abuse or neglect) or collective (like war, genocide, or systemic oppression), is passed down through successive generations within a family or group.
What diagnosis is different from usual mood fluctuations and short-lived emotional responses to challenges in everyday life. The person experiences low mood (feeling sad, irritable, empty) or a loss of pleasure or interest in activities, for most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks.
What is Depression?
Doing or acting in the exact opposite of what your negative urge is "telling your to do" to reduce emotional impulsiveness
What is Opposite Action?
A technique that asks you to find things you can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste (5 senses) to calm down when feeling anxious or distressed.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
Medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
(True / False)
What is False?
Medication can be helpful, and is sometimes necessary depending on the severity of the issue, but other methods such as therapy and counselling can also be very helpful. Talk to a doctor about all of your different options.
"If I’ve managed my emotions alone before, I don’t need help now."
What is a Myth?
Many people often point to challenging times in their childhood when they have overcome incredible adversity without needing therapy or help from a doctor. However, evidence shows that experiencing numerous stressful situations early in life increases the likelihood that someone may experience mental health challenges.
What event is this describing?..." sweating, nausea, trembling and numbness in the legs or hands, dizziness, hot or cold flashes, a feeling of tightness or pressure in the chest, hyperventilation, “jelly” legs or blurred vision can develop.
What is a panic attack?
A technique used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and reframe negative or unhelpful patterns.
What is Thought Challenging?
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as ________
What is Gratitude?
You need to know exactly what you're going to say and how you're going to say it before you talk to a counselor.
(True / False)
What is False?
Counselors are there to listen to whatever is troubling you, and you can open up to them at a pace that you are comfortable with. Tip: if you feel like you might get nervous and freeze up, it often helps to write things down before your appointment. This also helps you to organize your thoughts and put things in perspective.
You Only Need To Focus on Mental Health If You Have a Mental Health Condition
What is a Myth?
Everyone can benefit from actively promoting their well-being and improving their mental health. Just as we adopt healthy habits to optimize physical health, we should also engage in practices that support our mental health.
A chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness
What is ADHD?
Activities where you can engage in caring and kind behaviors to yourself
What is Self-Love/Self-Care?
What does HALT Stand for?
What is:
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
These services are designed to help individuals manage mental health conditions, develop coping strategies, and maintain their daily routines while receiving treatment.
What is Outpatient Therapy?
Suicide is the leading cause of death for ages 15-29 year olds
What is a Fact?
Suicide accounts for over 800,000 deaths globally each year, with over 41,000 in the U.S. alone. It is the second leading cause of death worldwide for 15-29 year olds.
What is a diagnosis that causes increased tolerance, withdrawal, loss of control, and neglecting responsibilities
What is a Substance Use Disorder?
The practice of fully accepting a situation or reality as it is, without judgment, particularly when the situation is painful or difficult
What is Radical Acceptance?
What is a cause (event or situation) that leads to someone feeling upset, frightened, angry, etc. (potentially setting off a flashback or leading to continued substance abuse)
What is a Trigger?
A type of treatment where individuals reside at a facility for a set period to receive intensive care for mental health conditions.
What is Inpatient Treatment?
People with a mental health issue are generally nonviolent
What is a Fact?
Only 3-5% of violent acts can be attributed to people with a serious mental illness.
What diagnosis requires specific symptoms to be present for at least a month and to significantly interfere with daily life. These symptoms include re-experiencing the trauma, avoidance, negative alterations in cognition and mood, and alterations in arousal and reactivity
What is PTSD?
What is a skill that you regularly reflect on thoughts, expressing your emotions to release feelings and process thoughts?
What is journaling?
1 in _____ Americans have lived with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression
What is 20?
Provides dietary interventions to support emotional well-being and address mental health conditions. They focus on the link between food and mood, using nutrition to improve mental health outcomes and manage related symptoms.
What is a nutritionist?
A person has to experience war in order to have PTSD?
What is a Myth?
70% of adults experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime, PTSD affects around 5% of the U.S. population, approximately 13 million Americans, in a given year.
This disorder is a combination of a manic phase (a sudden onset of exhilaration and excessive good mood), and a depressive phase (feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, and prolonged sadness)
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This is technique that involves systematically tensing and then relaxing different muscle groups in the body to relieve stress and promote relaxation.
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation?
While these particular things are compelling, they're not always reliable because they distort reality and may negatively affect how we behave.
Treatment option for individuals needing intensive support in their recovery journey, particularly those struggling with substance use or mental health issues. It provides 24-hour supervision and a range of therapies, including individual and group counseling, medication management, and skills development for independent living.
Only 50% of people see reduction in symptoms when going through treatment for mental health disorders
What is a Myth?
70-90% of people who seek proper treatment for mental health disorders witness a significant reduction in symptoms.
What percentage of Americans will meet the criteria for a diagnosable mental health condition sometime in their life.
What is 46%?
Imagining a pleasant environment, safer environment, or relaxing environment, and feeling the effects in your body to reduce anxiety and tension
What is Visualization or Safe Place?
What are the "happy chemicals" that impact a persons mood?
What are dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins?
Assistance from these and being compliant allow us to focus the mind to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state
What are medications?