General
What is one of the most important factors that impacts a young person's stress levels?
Sleep
To bounce back from hardships
Resilient
This is the most common mental illness, affecting more than 26% of the U.S. adult population.
Depression
The hormone that prepares the body to react?
Adrenaline
Empathy is a choice
True
Name one of the four known causes of Psychological disorders? Think BING!
Brain Injury/Infection/Neurotransmitter Imbalance/ Genetics
______ is a negative, unreasonable opinion/attitude or having a problem with people in a certain group, but not actually doing anything to them.
Prejudice
A progressive disease of the brain?
Alzheimer's Disease
This neurotransmitter controls our mood, pain and body temperature. Too little of this is associated with OCD.
Serotonin
Having children vaccinated has been linked to Autism?
False
How long do symptoms have to last to be classified as Clinical Depression?
2 weeks
Good form of stress is called what?
Eustress
This condition causes the person to fluctuate between episodes of depression and mania
Bi-polar Disorder
When we are faced with stressors in our life our body will either face it or get away... this process is called what?
Fight or Flight
Only 2% of adults are considered to be in optimal mental health?
False- 17%
Name the "Three Outs" for relieving stress?
Time out, Work out, Reach out
This disease is a physical disorder caused by an emotional reason? Ex. Stomach ache caused by fear or headache from stress.
Psychosomatic Disease/stress
This often impacts women after giving birth?
Postpartum Depression
This neurotransmitter controls movement, enjoyment, mood, motivation & reward? An excessive amount of this is one factor involved in schizophrenia.
Dopamine
Selfishness is the opposite of empathy?
True
This type of mental illness cause means that something from one's environment led to a psychological impairment, such as childhood emotional trauma or neglect.
Functional
These deliver messages from your brain, jumping the gap between your nerve cells?
Neurotransmitters
Also known as "Winter Depression"
SAD- Seasonal Affective Disorder
This neurotransmitter regulates our anxiety and stress and controls motor control, vision and sedation.
GABA
Mental disorders caused by one's environment is called an Organic cause like PTSD.
False