Mental Health Knowledge
The common mental health condition can involve excessive worry, racing thoughts, restlessness, or physical symptoms like a fast heartbeat.
Anxiety
This basic self-care habit helps your brain, mood, memory, and energy recover overnight.
What is sleep?
This Foothill College center offers free and confidential support for students dealing with stress, relationships, life changes, or needing someone to talk to.
What is the Mental Health & Wellness Center?
This productivity strategy means working for a focused period, then taking a short break.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
Taking slow deep breaths is a coping strategy that can help calm this part of the body.
What is the nervous system?
This is the term for long-term stress that continues without enough rest of recovery.
Chronic Stress
Drinking enough water, eating regular meals, and moving your body are examples of this type of self-care.
What is physical self-care?
Foothill students can receive up to this many free brief therapy sessions per academic year.
What is eight sessions?
This is the practice of treating yourself with kindness instead of harsh judgment when you mess up or struggle.
What is self-compassion?
This grounding technique asks you to notice 5 things you see, 4 things you feel, 3 things you hear, 2 things you smell, and 1 thing you taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
True or false: You need to be in a crisis to use mental health support services.
False
Saying “I can’t take that on right now” is an example of setting this.
What is a boundary?
This 3-digit crisis number can be called or texted for mental health crisis support.
What is 988?
This means deciding which tasks matter most instead of treating every task like it is equally urgent.
What is prioritizing?
Talking to a friend, counselor, mentor, or trusted person is an example of using this kind of support.
What is social support?
This mental health condition often includes persistent sadness, loss of interest, low energy, and changes in sleep or appetite.
Depression
True or false: Self-care always has to be relaxing or fun.
False
This Foothill online partner provides free 24/7 one-on-one virtual mental health support for students.
What is Uwill?
This type of rest means taking a real break from screens, assignments, work, or responsibilities so your mind can recover.
What is mental rest?
True or false: Avoiding a stressful problem forever is usually the healthiest coping strategy.
False
This is the idea that mental health exists on a range, and people can move between doing well, struggling, and needing support.
What is the mental health continuum?
This kind of self-care involves checking in with your feelings, journaling, talking to someone, or allowing yourself to process emotions.
What is emotional self-care?
This Foothill space offers massage chairs, quiet calming areas, wellness literature, and places to relax or recharge.
What is the Wellness Lounge?
This mindset focuses on learning, improvement, and effort instead of believing your abilities are fixed forever.
What is a growth mindset?
This coping skill means challenging an unhelpful thought and replacing it with a more balanced one.
What is cognitive reframing?