True or False
Having good mental health means that you should be happy all the time.
False
Your sense of yourself as a unique individual is?
Personal Identity
Signals that tell your mind and body how to react are?
Emotions
What is one example of a defense mechanism?
(Repression - Involuntarily pushing unpleasant feelings out of one's mind.)
Repression - Involuntarily pushing unpleasant feelings out of one's mind.
Regression - Returning to behaviors characteristic of a younger age rather than dealing with problems in a mature manner.
Denial - Unconscious lack of recognition of something that is obvious to others.
Projection - Attributing your own feelings or faults to another person or group
Suppression - Consciously and intentionally pushing unpleasant feelings out of one's mind.
Rationalization - Making excuses to explain a situation or behavior, rather than taking responsibility for it.
Compensation - Making up for weakness and mistakes through gift giving, hard work, or extreme efforts.
The ability to understand your thoughts, emotions, and values and how they can influence your behavior can be called?
Self Awareness
A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique is?
Personality
Chemicals produced by your glands that regulate the activities of different body cells are
Hormones
How much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself is called
Self-esteem
The distinctive qualities that describe how a person thinks, feels, and behaves is?
Character
The ability to imagine and understand how someone else feels is called?
Empathy
_________ people have the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.
Resiliant
How many basic traits of good character are there?
6
Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful, emotions and situations are called?
Defense Mechanisms
The ability to accept yourself and others, express and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in your life is
Mental/Emotional Health
Name one trait of good character
Trustworthiness
Respect
Responsibility
Fairness
Caring
Citizenship
Uncontrolled ______ can turn into hostility, which can result in harm to the hostile person and to others.
Anger