Relationships
Healthy or Unhealthy: There is equal decision making about what you do in your relationship
Healthy
This object is a squishy sphere that you could use when anxious or fidgety.
What is a stress ball?
Myth or Fact: People with mental health problems can snap out of it if they try hard enough.
Myth! Mental health problems have nothing to do with being lazy or weak and many people need help to get better. Many factors contribute to mental health problems, including: -Biological factors, such as genes, physical illness, injury, or brain chemistry -Life experiences, such as trauma or a history of abuse -Family history of mental health problems
In a state of of peaceful happiness and satisfaction
What is content?
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
A person who you are in contact with, but does not know much about you
What is acquaintance?
This skill requires a radio, smartphone, or concert.
What is listening to music?
Myth or Fact: Therapy and self-help are a waste of time. Pills can cure any mental illness.
Myth! Treatment for mental health problems varies depending on the individual and could include medication, therapy, or both.
Experiencing worry, unease, or nervousness, typically about a current event or something with an unknown outcome.
What is anxious?
What can you catch, but not throw?
What is a cold?
The cruel and improper treatment of someone. There are 3 types of this.
Walking, swimming, jogging, lifting weights, using a treadmill, and playing sports are examples of this coping skill.
What is exercise?
Myth or Fact: People with mental health problems are more violent because of their mental health problems.
Myth! Only 3%-5% of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness. In fact, people with severe mental illnesses are over 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population.
I am denied or kept from a place, activity, group, or privilege. What am I feeling?
What is excluded?
What goes around the world, but stays in a corner?
What is a stamp?
You draw a line in the relationship, determining how close you let a person get to you (emotionally or physically)
What is a boundary?
This skill doesn't require talking. A pencil and paper are all you need.
What is journaling?
Myth or Fact: Mental health problems are common.
Fact! For example, 1 in 10 Americans have experienced depression.
Feeling deep satisfaction as a result of one's own achievements, qualities, or possessions.
What is proud?
I have holes in my top, bottom, left, right, and middle, but I can still hold water.
What is a sponge?
An action a person does by lying and making up a fake story to another person which leads them to doubt their perceptions and become misled and question their reality.
What is gaslighting?
This skill can take practice, but can involve quieting your mind and creating a sense of calm.
What is meditation?
Myth or Fact: Mental health problems cannot get better with time.
Myth! Some disorders can become less troublesome as we get older and some we can grow out of with help!
Wanting to do or have something very much. Having a strong desire
What is Eager? (Will accept excitement)
You go at red, but stop at green, what am I?
What is a watermelon?