Mental Health
The broad term used to describe a condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions can impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is Mental Illness
Meditation and yoga is this type of coping skill
Mindfulness
Distraction coping skill
TV, movies, reading, drawing,, knitting, pain induction, ect.
True or false
Coping skills are used to avoid problems in our lives
False
Coping skills help us work through problems in a healthy way
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
TRUE or FALSE: around 1 in 4 Americans have a diagnosed mental illness.
What is TRUE? (approx. 26.2% of Americans)
Smelling a candle or taking a shower is this type of coping skill
Self-soothing
Self-soothing coping skill
Smelling candles, taking a shower, putting on comfy clothing, listening to music, etc.
True or false
Coping skills help you focus on important things in your life
True
When we cope with problems and ease or emotions it helps us think clearer and tackle them better
What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them
This is a medical illness characterized by persistent sadness and a lack of interest or pleasure in previously rewarding or enjoyable activities
Depression
Journaling and talking to someone about how you feel is this type of coping skill
Emotional Awareness
Emotional awareness coping skill
Journaling, talking to someone, etc.
True or false
Coping skills are something everyone is born knowing how to do
False
Coping skills are learned throughout our lives
What question can you never answer yes to?
Are you asleep?
Impulsively making decisions and staying up for days is commonly associated with this.
What is Mania or Bipolar manic episode?
What makes a coping skill unhealthy?
If it does more harm than good, such as I start to use them to enable my addictive or criminal behaviors by being dishonest about my behavior.
Opposite action coping skill
Walking away instead of fighting, laughing instead crying, standing up straight when you feel nervous, etc.
Positive thoughts create positive moods, and negative thoughts create negative moods
True
Give me an example of a thought that puts you in a good / bad mood
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He was bald.
A mental disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts, speech or behavior.
What is Schizophrenia
Is stress something that can be controlled?
Yes but but it takes time and practice
Crisis Intervention
Calling 911, Calling the Crisis Hotline or going to the hospital/ Urgent Care Center, etc.
You can catch a mental illness from someone who has it, it is contagious.
False. Mental illness is not at all contagious.
What has a head and a tail but no body?
A coin