Mental Health Conditions
These are patterns of thoughts and feelings that decrease mental and emotional health.
What are mental health conditions?
This is who you are, including physical traits, social connections, and internal thoughts and feelings.
What is identity?
These are moods or feelings you experience.
What are emotions?
The physical, mental, and emotional reactions of your body to challenges.
What is stress?
The body’s impulse to fight, flee, or freeze from a threatening situation.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
A mental and emotional state in which negative thoughts interfere with daily function for a short time.
What is mental distress?
This is your mental picture of yourself, including appearance, personality, skills, abilities, and weaknesses.
What is self-image?
Knowing which emotions you feel and why.
What is emotional awareness?
Any factor that causes stress.
What is a stressor?
The body returns to its resting state after a stressful event.
What is the relaxation response?
Positive mental and emotional health helps people cope with these two types of stresses.
What are minor and major stresses?
This is how you feel about yourself.
What is self-esteem?
Treating yourself with kindness and understanding, even after setbacks.
What is self-compassion?
Positive stress that encourages growth and motivation.
What is eustress?
The process of using strategies to reduce the impact of stress response and handle threatening situations in positive ways.
What is stress management?
When stress or trauma symptoms interfere with daily life for more than this length of time, professional help may be needed.
What is more than a couple of weeks?
These are thoughts and feelings about oneself.
What is self-talk?
This ability includes understanding, controlling, and expressing emotions and sensing others’ emotions.
What is emotional intelligence?
Stress that causes negative feelings and harmful health effects.
What is distress?
Taking an active role in protecting your own health through sleep, healthy food, and physical activity.
What is self-care?
These are four professionals who can help with serious stress or mental health symptoms.
Who are psychologists, social workers, therapists, and counselors?
These two terms describe ideas a person knows to be true and set ways a person thinks or feels.
What are beliefs and attitudes?
These three skills help people with high EI support relationships and bounce back: ability to understand others, thankfulness, and bouncing back from stress.
What are empathy, gratitude, and resilience?
Repeated, long-lasting exposure to severe stressors such as neglect, abuse, violence, or loss.
What is toxic stress?
This technique involves tensing and relaxing body parts until the entire body is relaxed.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?