Warning Signs
Moods that people with depression can experience often are.
What are: anxiety, apathy, general discontent, guilt, hopelessness, loss of interest or pleasure in activities, mood swings, general sadness?
True or false. There is only 1 form of depression that is the same for all people.
False! Depression can vary from person to person dramatically, there are also different types and subcategories of depression.
True or false. People can recover from depression.
True! Although depression is not a simple virus or disease and can take many different forms, many people who have suffered from depressive episodes recover and never have another episode.
Here are the links:
Link to google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y0F9OiH9P75ned5VM4VAzvz8yk78Xs3qD-5NIrHl7jg/edit?usp=sharing
Link to this Jeopardy game: https://jeopardylabs.com/play/depression-jeopardy-84
True or false: There's nothing we can do.
False! There are many things we at Weston can do to help solve this issue.
Behavioral signs that someone could have depression are.
What are: agitation, excessive crying, irritability, restlessness, or social isolation?
Fill in the blank. Depression is most common in people from ages (blank) to (black) in the U.S.
What is ages 18-25. Almost 11% of people in the U.S in this age group have or used to have some form of depression.
A medication that treats depression is called.
What are antidepressants?
One thing Weston has already done is.
What is creating an active mind club for mental illness and generally raising awareness about this issue.
Some impacts that depression can have on sleep are.
What are: early awakening, excess sleepiness, insomnia, or restless sleep?
Fill in the blank. There are about (blank) million adults in the U.S who have had a depressive episode.
What is 16.2 million adults in the U.S? Data from 2016.
Free Space!
This is a free space so just relax and take the free points, also relaxation and reducing stress can help treat depression!
Free Space!
This is a free space so just relax and take the free points, also relaxation and reducing stress can help treat depression!
Some common effects depression can have on your cognitive functionality are.
What are: lack of concentration, slowness in activity, or thoughts of suicide?
Fill in the blank. About (blank) percent of people with depression receive treatment.
What is about 50%?
Activities you can do to treat and help prevent depression are.
What are: trying to be active and exercise, setting realistic goals for yourself, trying to spend time with other people and confide in a trusted friend or relative, trying not to isolate yourself, and let others help you and, continuing to educate yourself about depression.
Something can do more of is.
What is giving additional recourses to learn more about depression and recourses that can help someone with depression like: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/
and
.https://www.activeminds.org/
Some effects depression can have on your body are.
What are: excessive hunger, fatigue, or loss of appetite?
A subcategory of depression is (name a different type of depression).
What are persistent depressive disorder, postpartum depression, psychotic depression and seasonal affective disorder
Fill in the black. (blank) are the names of therapies that help treat depression.
What are: Cognitive behavioral therapy, behavior therapy, and psychotherapy.
Another way we can help the issue is.
What is learning more about treatments and symptoms of depression so that we can spot it and treat it much easier, potentially saving lots of strife and sometimes even lives.