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This mental health disorder involves worrying too much about everyday things, such as school, family, friendships, or the future. The worry is difficult to control, happens often for at least six months, and may cause trouble sleeping, relaxing, or concentrating.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
True or False: Depression is the same as feeling sad, and someone with depression can simply choose to be happy.
False! Depression is a mental health disorder that affects mood, energy, thoughts, and daily activities. Someone cannot simply choose to stop experiencing depression.
What does DSM stand for?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
What is it called when someone suddenly feels very scared or nervous and has physical symptoms like a racing heart, shaking, or trouble breathing?
Panic attack
What is the term for setting limits with other people to protect your emotional, mental, or physical well-being?
Boundaries
This mental health disorder involves ongoing difficulty paying attention, staying organized, controlling impulses, or sitting still. These symptoms can make it harder to complete schoolwork, follow directions, or manage daily responsibilities.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
True or False: If two people have the same mental health diagnosis, they must experience the exact same symptoms.
False! People with the same diagnosis may experience different symptoms or levels of severity. Mental health conditions affect individuals differently.
What do we call the rules about which symptoms someone must have and how long they must last to be diagnosed with a mental health disorder?
Diagnostic criteria
What do we call unwanted thoughts, images, or urges that keep coming back and cause stress or anxiety?
Obsessions
What is the term for recognizing and understanding your own emotions, thoughts, and behaviors?
Self-awareness
This mental health disorder can develop after someone experiences or witnesses a traumatic event. Symptoms may include nightmares, flashbacks, avoiding reminders of the event, and feeling constantly on edge for more than one month.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
True or False: Someone who experiences a traumatic event will automatically develop PTSD.
False! Not everyone who experiences trauma develops PTSD. People respond to traumatic experiences differently, and PTSD involves specific symptoms that continue for more than one month.
Besides the type and number of symptoms someone experiences, what time-related factor do clinicians consider when determining whether someone meets the criteria for a mental health disorder?
How long the symptoms have lasted, called "symptom duration"
What do we call actions someone feels they must repeat, like checking locks, counting, or washing their hands, to help reduce anxiety?
Compulsions
What is the term for ways people handle stress, difficult emotions, or challenging situations?
Coping skills
This mental health disorder involves unwanted thoughts that keep coming back and/or feeling the need to repeat certain actions, such as checking, counting, or washing, to reduce anxiety or discomfort.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
True or False: Someone can have ADHD even if they are not hyperactive or constantly moving.
True! ADHD can involve difficulty paying attention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, or a combination of these symptoms. Not everyone with ADHD is physically hyperactive.
What term describes how serious or intense someone's mental health symptoms are?
Symptom Severity
What is it called when someone sees, hears, or feels something that is not actually there, such as hearing voices that other people cannot hear?
Hallucinations
: What is the term for understanding and caring about how another person feels, even if you have not experienced the same thing?
Empathy
This mental health disorder involves feeling sad or hopeless, or losing interest in things you used to enjoy, for at least two weeks, along with other symptoms that affect daily life.
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
True or False: OCD is mainly about wanting everything to be clean, organized, and perfect.
False! OCD involves unwanted thoughts and/or repetitive behaviors or mental actions. These can involve fears about safety, harm, mistakes, or other concerns, not only cleanliness.
What is the term for having two or more mental health disorders at the same time, such as anxiety and depression?
Comorbidity or Co-occurring Disorders
What is it called when someone has a period of unusually high energy and an extremely happy or irritable mood? They may need less sleep, talk much faster than usual, or make risky decisions. This period usually lasts at least one week.
Manic episode
What is the term for negative attitudes, stereotypes, or unfair treatment toward people with mental health conditions?
Stigma