Getting to Know Yourself
Who you are, which includes your physical traits, activities, social connections, and internal thoughts and feelings.
1. Identity
2. beliefs
3. attitudes
4. self-esteem
What is identity?
Ability to keep a positive outlook and focus on the good aspects of stressful situations.
What is optimism?
The body's impulse to fight or flee from threatening situations.
What is fight-or-flight?
A condition in which a person has difficulty paying attention and controlling behavior.
What is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
Term that describes the copying of suicide attempts after exposure to another person's suicide.
What is suicide contagion?
Ideas or thoughts a person knows to be true, based on real experiences, scientific facts, or what a person has learned from others.
1. Identity
2. beliefs
3. self-esteem
What are beliefs?
The ability to bounce back from difficult situation.
What is resilience?
Physical, mental, and emotional reactions of your body to the challenges you face
What is stress?
Condition identified by intense negative feelings that do not go away and negatively affect daily life.
What is depression?
The most common cause of suicide is ___.
What is untreated depression?
Your mental picture of yourself. which includes how you look, how you act, your skills and abilities, and your weaknesses; also called self-concept.
What is self-image?
Ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes, and to understand someone else's wants, needs, and viewpoints.
What is empathy?
___ is positive stress?
What is eustress?
Condition identified by irregular thoughts and delusions, hearing voices, and seeing things that are not there. Someone with this condition may laugh after someone brings up one's death.
What is schizophrenia?
People who lose a loved one to suicide.
What are survivors?
How you feel about yourself.
What is self-esteem?
The skill of being aware of which emotions you feel and why.
What is emotional awareness?
Strategy of imagining a pleasant environment when faced with stress
What is visualization?
Condition identified by periods of intense depression that alternate with periods of manic moods.
What is bipolar?
Act of taking one's own life.
What is suicide?
Set ways a person thinks or feels about someone or something.
1. identity
2. attitudes
3. self-esteem
What are attitudes?
What is emotional intelligence (EI)?
Strategy of clearing negative thoughts from your mind and relaxing your body to relieve stress
What is meditation?
Condition identified by ignoring social rules and engaging in impulsive behavior
What is antisocial personality disorder?
If you know of someone who might commit suicide, what number should you call?
What is 911?