In Your Feelings
The feeling that might follow when something unfair happens.
What is anger (or jealousy).
Behaviors and feelings are related. If someone screams and runs away from something, they are likely to be feeling this emotion (act out if helpful).
What is fear (or maybe anger)
Taking a deep one, and paying attention to it as you do, can help you to feel more relaxed. It is an important coping skill for many people in response to many uncomfortable emotions.
What is breath.
True or False: Mental health issues are very rare in teenagers and young people, and mental health only matters for adults.
FALSE. About 1 in 5 teenagers and young adults, between the ages of 15 and 24, report a mental health struggle, SUD, or learning disability. Many others also deal with related symptoms, especially those of anxiety or depression. Mental health matters for everyone!
Looking at and using these before bed can make it harder to fall asleep.
What are screens/devices (phone, TV, computer, tablet, etc)
The feeling when you think something is going to go really well.
What is confident, optimistic, or hopeful.
These are the three things that interact in CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, and they make up the 'CBT Triangle'.
What are thoughts, feelings, and behaviors/actions.
This practice is based on paying attention to the present moment, on purpose, and without judgment and can help you feel calm, relaxed, and think before you act. (Hint: starts with the letter 'M')
What is mindfulness.
True or False: People with mental health challenges will not get better.
FALSE. Once diagnosed, a mental health challenge is treatable. While it is not always “cured”, it can be effectively supported and managed. Most people with mental health challenges live productive and positive lives while receiving treatment.
A teenager's body needs to get at least this much sleep per night to be rested.
What is at least 8 hours, but ideally 9-9.5 hours to get the rest it needs.
A feeling most associated with a fast heart beat, sweaty palms, tense body.
What is fear or anxiety.
It is possible to change how you are feeling by changing your thoughts, or the way you talk to yourself. The voice in your head that does this is known as your ________ talk.
What is "self" talk.
Using these five senses to notice what is around you is a 'grounding' technique that can help you feel more relaxed.
What are taste, touch, smell, sight, and sound.
True or False: Mental health challenges are a consequence of personal weakness.
FALSE. The main risk factors for mental illness are not personal weakness but may be from genetics, severe stress (such as from trauma, loss), or other influences from the environment.
These are three things I can do when struggling to fall asleep at night.
What are ____, _____, and _____.
(answers vary)
The feeling and condition of being down, hopeless, worthless, guilty, and extreme sadness, all lasting for a long period of time.
What is depression.
Someone who is thinking, "nobody likes me," is likely to be feeling this.
What is sad, hopeless, lonely, or depressed.
Worries are almost always based on something in the future -- something that has not happened yet. Mindfulness, therefore, can decrease worrying in this way...
It directs you to pay attention to the present moment, taking your gaze and worry away from the future.
True or False: Therapy is a place where the therapist tells you what to do to fix your problems.
FALSE. Therapy is a place where you are treated as the expert of yourself. A therapist does not simply tell you what to do; rather, they work together with you to identify what is going to be most helpful for you to grow and succeed.
Not getting enough sleep may lead to these behaviors in teens.
What are decrease in patience, attention, ability to control emotions; and an increase in irritability, anger outbursts.
The rhyming response the body makes when feeling fearful or threatened and the sympathetic nervous system is activated.
The 'fight or flight' response
When walking through the doors on your first day of school, you can try to do this to change your feelings from nervous and worried, to excited and confident.
Change your thoughts and/or behaviors. For example, you can think "I am going to have a great day." Or you might take a deep breath and hold your head up high.
These are five relaxation skills that can calm me down.
What are ____, ____, ____, ____, and ____.
(answers vary)
True or False: Depression can come out like, and look like, anger.
TRUE. Typically when we think of depression, we think of symptoms such as sadness, low energy, insomnia, appetite changes, and more. Sometimes, however, sadness might not even be noticeable in depression, but irritability and anger alone can be involved.
Sleep helps with learning in this way.
What is helps you be more focused, concentrated, and attentive. Also, during sleep, the brain takes things that we learned throughout the day and moves it into our 'long term memory' so that we do not forget it.