Trauma
Acronyms
The Brain
Coping skills
Movies focused on MH
100

PTSD stands for this 

What is post-traumatic stress disorder

100

DBT

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Fun Fact: it is designed to help people manage intense emotions by teaching them specific skills to regulate their feelings, tolerate distress, and improve interpersonal relationships

100

The top of our brain

What is the cortex?

100

Boundaries

What's Emotional, physical, and mental limits we set for ourselves in various aspects of our lives?

100

A sequel that features Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result

What is inside out 2?

200

Name 2 symptoms of PTSD

° reliving the event (flashbacks nightmares are constantly replaying the event in your head) 

°avoiding reminders (avoiding places people are things that remind you of the event) 

°negative emotions (feeling fear anger guilt shame or having negative thoughts about yourself or the world) 

(Emotional numbing, hyper arousal, physical sensations, difficulty concentrating, loss of interest, and social isolation)

200

H.A.L.T. 

What is hungry, angry, lonely and tired?

200

The middle of our brain

What is the limbic?

200

Radical Acceptance 

What is the ability to accept situations that are outside of our control without judging them which reduces the suffering they cause?

200

Winona Ridner and Angelina Jolie stars in a movie that follows a young woman who spends 18 months institutionalized at a psychiatric hospital following a suicide attempt

What is girl, interrupted?

300

Stress hormone that is active in the fight or flight response -


What is cortisol? 


300

S.T.O.P.

Stop 

Take a breath 

Observe what's going on inside and around you 

Proceed with more awareness

300

The bottom of our brain

What is the brainstem or the reptilian?

300

Grounding 54321

What is an exercise designed to manage acute stress and reduced anxiety. It involves identifying five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste.

300

Bradley Cooper plays a man who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder & depression and Jennifer Lawrence plays a woman who has an unnamed mental health condition.  



What is 'Silver Linings Playbook'  ? 

400

EMDR stands for this 

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing 

Fact: It is a psychotherapy technique that can help treat mental health conditions like PTSD, anxiety, depression, and eating disorders.

400

TIPPs

What is Temperature, Intense Exercise, Paced Breathing, and Progressive Muscle Relaxation 

400

4 Happy Chemicals 

Hint: (D.O.S.E.)

What is dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin and endorphins. 


400

Mindfulness 

What is the practice of being aware of and engaged in the present moment without judgment?



400

Robin Williams film tells the life of a suicidal man with MDD who makes his mind up to study medicine after his experience of a short stay in a mental hospital.

What is 'Patch Adams? 

500

Trauma

What is a lasting emotional response to a distressing event that can harm a person's sense of safety self and ability to regulate emotions. 

(An emotional response to a terrible event like an accident crime or natural disaster etc)

500

DEARMAN

Describe, express, assert, reinforce, mindful, appear confident, negotiate.


500

There are 100 billion of these in the brain

What is How many neutrons are in the brain? 


500

Self-Care

What is the practice of intentionally looking after your physical mental and emotional health ? 

500

 Russell Crowe played John Nash in this film addressing mental health such as paranoia, social isolation, moments of extreme stress and anxiety, and the struggles of living with schizophrenia. 

What is 'A Beautiful Mind"?

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