A condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is mental illness?
Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.
What is mental health?
(also, Social and Emotional Health
A concept that can be proven.
What is a fact?
Self-soothing and mindfulness, are helpful to ground a person and bring them back to reality after a flashback
What is Self-management strategies?
A traditional story that is often accepted as fact even though it is not.
What is a myth?
Symptoms must last at least two weeks and must represent a change in your previous level of functioning for a diagnosis of...
What is depression?
True or False: Having a mental illness is the same as being mentally disabled
What is FALSE?
Negative, incorrect beliefs, stereotype or label are other names for this.
What is is stigma?
A person with this diagnosis experiences dramatic shifts in a person’s mood, energy and ability to think clearly. People with ______ experience high and low moods—known as mania and depression
What is Bi-Polar disorder?
When someone is often nervous and experiences panic attacks they are said to have this mental health challenge.
What is anxiety?
When the symptoms you are experiencing are given a name.
What is is diagnosis?
True or False: 1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year.
What is True?