Mental Health
A wide range of mental health conditions and disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior and deeply impact day-to-day living are known as?
What is mental illness?
True or False: People with OCD are only obsessed with cleanliness.
False. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, known as OCD, can have different obsessions known as themes,2 which can include cleanliness, but can also include things like fear of harm, perfectionism, or other intrusive thoughts.
Personal limits that protect your emotional, physical, and mental well-being are known as?
An example is telling a client that they cannot sit on your lap.
Healthy professional boundaries
True or False: medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
False: medication can be helpful, but therapy and counseling are also effective forms of overcoming mental illness.
This mental health condition can cause symptoms such as re-experiencing, hyper-arousal, avoidance, dissociation, and changes in thinking and mood
PTSD
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is FALSE? In the U.S., recent data shows millions of children and adolescents experience anxiety and depression, with rates increasing; around 1 in 5 adolescents (ages 12-17) have a diagnosed condition, with anxiety being most common, while for younger children (3-17), about 11% have diagnosed anxiety and 4% have diagnosed depression
What are some simple ways to maintain positive mental health?
Drink water, get good sleep, eat healthy food.
What are two things that can promote positive mental health?
Exercise, mindfulness, positive friendships, talking about your problems, having an outlet for anger and frustration, getting enough sleep, eating healthy, plus lots more!
A symptom of depression is a persistently ____ mood.
WHAT IS SAD, EMPTY, HOPELESS, DEPRESSED or UNHAPPY (can be irritable with children)
What is the practice of appreciating the good things in life and is also a DBT skill that when doing will boost positive emotions (like joy, contentment) while reducing stress (anxiety, depression) by releasing mood-lifting neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin) and lowering stress hormones (cortisol)?
What is Gratitude!
True or False? Staying away from everyone around the holidays will definitely boost your mood and keep you sane?
False- Social Isolation is not healthy and will adversely impact our mental health- however, maintain healthy boundaries from undesired family members around the holidays...
True or false: all stress is bad.
False. While chronic or overwhelming stress (distress) can be detrimental to your health, short-term or positive stress is a normal and essential part of life that can enhance performance, motivation, and even immune function.
Impulsively buying things on Amazon and staying up for days is commonly associated with this.
What is Mania or Bipolar?
The practice of intentionally focusing on the present moment, observing your thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surroundings without judgment or reaction is called?
What is Mindfulness
True or False: Having too much gratitude can actually negatively impact your mental health as it can make you easily taken advantage of and manipulated by others.
False! Gratitude positively impacts mental health by boosting happiness, reducing stress, anxiety, and depression, and increasing resilience.
What is the phone number to the suicide and crisis lifeline?
988
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.
What is a Panic Attack?
This is a simple technique (Also one of the DBT TIP skills) that activates the parasympathetic nervous system, slows the heart rate, lowers cortisol, increases oxygen, and can shift your body from a "fight-or-flight" state to a state of calm, improving mood, focus, and emotional resilience.
Deep Breathing/Paced Breathing
True or False: Practicing too much mindfulness can negatively impact your functioning.
I thought this would be false, but apparently it is true! I guess with everything, do in moderation.. lol.
Willoughby Britton, a professor of psychiatry and author of a study on the negative consequences of mindfulness, explains that a portion of meditators might become “overly sensitized” to their emotions due to an enhanced attentiveness. This results in some experiencing panic attacks.
Using this____ negatively affects mental health by fueling anxiety, depression, and loneliness through constant social comparison, cyberbullying, FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), and sleep disruption from blue light and addictive design, leading to low self-esteem, poor body image, and reduced real-world interactions, especially in heavy users.
What is Social Media
List 3 coping skills?
Yeahhhh!
What is the most common mental illness in the United States according to the CDC with 19.1% of U.S. adults experiencing it in the past year, and over 31% in their lifetime
Anxiety Disorders
What self-care practices will you implement over the break?
Whoohoo!
Describe the 5-4-3-2-1 Coping Strategy
A technique that asks you to find things you can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste (5 senses) to calm down when feeling anxious or distressed.