Brainstorm
A condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is mental illness?
Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.
What is mental health?
(also, Social and Emotional Health)
This is a normal emotional feeling experienced by a person from a loss of a loved one (e.g. it is experienced when a family member dies). It is different from a depressive disorder. This is not a mental disorder.
What is Grief?
Anything that causes stress is called...
What is a Stressor?
A concept that can be proven.
What is a fact?
Listening to music, reading, and drawing are examples of....
What are Coping skills?
A substance used for medical treatment, especially a prescription drug.
What is Medication?
The number one abused substance on college campuses...
What is Alcohol?
When is Mental Health Awareness month?
What is May?
The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
What is Patience?
OCD stands for..
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
True or False: Slapping Chris Rock is an example of a healthy coping skill.
What is FALSE?
Negative, incorrect beliefs, stereotype or label are other names for this.
What is is stigma?
A person with this diagnosis experiences dramatic shifts in a person’s mood, energy and ability to think clearly. People with ______ experience high and low moods—known as mania and depression
What is Bi-Polar disorder?
When someone is often nervous and experiences panic attacks they are said to have this mental health challenge.
What is anxiety?
True or False: 1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year.
What is TRUE?
When the symptoms you are experiencing are given a name.
What is a diagnosis?
The act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information
What is Communication?
The two most common mental disorders in the U.S.
What is Depression & Anxiety?
This is an important part of the brain in controlling movement, planning behavior (actions), reasoning, emotions, and problem solving.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
True or False:
Every coping skill is healthy.
What is FALSE?
Some ways that we learn to cope are not healthy for us! (ex: smoking, drinking, gambling etc.)