Mental Health Basics
This term means feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen.
What is anxiety?
True or False: Brief feelings of anxiety can be a normal response to stress.
What is True?
Depression is a serious health condition, but the good news is that it is also this.
What is treatable?
A persistent sad or irritable mood and losing interest in activities once enjoyed are warning signs of this condition.
What is depression?
This eating disorder involves an irrational fear of weight gain that leads to self-starvation and severe weight loss.
What is anorexia nervosa?
This is a prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness.
What is depression?
This anxiety disorder involves a strong, irrational fear of something specific, such as heights or social situations.
What is a phobia?
This type of depression is intense, can last for weeks or months, and can significantly affect daily functioning.
What is major depression
Significant changes in appetite or body weight and difficulty sleeping or oversleeping fall into this category of depression warning signs.
What are physical and sleep disruptions?
This eating disorder involves a cycle of binge eating followed by purging to prevent weight gain.
What is bulimia nervosa?
This term means a lack of strong feelings, interest, or concern.
What is apathy?
This disorder involves persistent thoughts, fears, or urges that lead to repetitive behaviors.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
This type of depression has less severe symptoms but may last for years.
What is mild depression?
Heredity and medical conditions are examples of this type of factor that can influence depression.
What are physical factors?
A person experiences extreme mood swings ranging from severe depression to periods of mania, including high energy and euphoria. Name the disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
This is an illness involving mood extremes that interfere with everyday living.
What is a mood disorder?
This disorder involves sudden, unexplained feelings of terror that may include physical symptoms such as a rapid heart rate.
What is panic disorder?
This condition is a reaction to a specific life event, such as a significant loss or major change.
What is an adjustment disorder?
Surviving a traumatic event is an example of this type of factor that can contribute to depression.
What is a psychological factor?
This disorder involves repeatedly violating the rights of others or basic social rules and may include behaviors such as stealing, vandalism, aggression, or truancy.
What is conduct disorder?
This is an illness of the mind that can affect a person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and prevent them from leading a happy, healthful, and productive life.
What is a mental disorder?
Jordan constantly experiences exaggerated worry and tension about ordinary events in everyday life, even when there is no obvious reason. Name the disorder.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
Name the three areas of daily life that the lesson says depression can affect.
What are thinking, feelings, and behavior?
Living in poverty or in a harmful environment falls under this category of factors that may contribute to depression.
What are social factors?
This severe mental disorder involves losing contact with reality and can include delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking.
What is schizophrenia?