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?
This is a normal emotional feeling experienced by a person from a loss of a loved one, it is different from a depressive disorder. This is not a mental disorder.
What is Grief?
____ is a long term condition that a patient has to live with, which may often fluctuate and for which there is usually no cure such as diabetes, asthma or many mental health problems.
What is a Chronic Disease?
What are the five stages of grief?
What is denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance?
Listening to music, reading, and drawing are examples of....
What are Coping skills?
A legal substance used for medical treatment diagnosed by a doctor
What is a Prescription?
The number one abused substance on college campuses...
What is Alcohol?
When is Mental Health Awareness month?
When is May?
___ are irrational fears that lead people to altogether avoid specific things or situations that trigger intense anxiety.
What are Phobias?
A person with this diagnosis can have a hard time focusing and sitting still making finishing things very hard.
What is ADHD?
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 a 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?
A person with this diagnosis has thoughts and behaviors that are focused too much on food and body weight.
What is an eating disorder?
(Or name an eating 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?
A scientific study using human volunteers (also called participants) to look at new ways to prevent, detect, or treat disease.
What is a Clinical Trial?
The two most common mental disorders in the U.S.
What is Depression & Anxiety?
A person with this diagnosis feels scared even if they are safe and there is nothing to be afraid of.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
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.)