Mental Health Basics
This is a sudden and intense period of fear or discomfort that can seemingly appear out of nowhere and can sometimes mimic symptoms of a heart attack.
Panic Attack
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as ________
Gratitude
A limit you set around what you are comfortable with and how you expect to be treated.
A boundary
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.
What does "substance use disorder" refer to?
A pattern of substance use that causes significant problems or impairment.
This is a common, yet serious mental health illness that negatively affects how you feel and can keep you laying in bed for days.
Depression
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is FALSE?
Why should someone tell their doctor about all medications and substances they're taking?
To help prevent dangerous interactions and make treatment safer.
Hopelessness and helplessness can lead to what?
What is suicidal ideation?
True or False: Addiction is simply a matter of having poor willpower.
False
Impulsively buying things on Amazon and staying up for days is commonly associated with this.
What is Mania or Bipolar?
What are Coping Skills that can be used for Depression?
*Why don’t pirates take a bath before they walk the plank?
Self-Care
Reach out to Supports
Get Active
Journal
Call Someone
Watch Something Funny
*They just wash up on shore.
True or False: Asking someone directly if they are having suicidal thoughts causes them to become suicidal.
False.
True or false: all stress is bad.
False. Some stress can be motivating and is a natural reaction your body has to certain events. It can sometimes give us an "extra push". When stress becomes too much to handle, that might be an indication to start making some positive mental health changes
This is needing more of a substance over time to achieve the same effect.
Tolerance
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is TRUE?
Discreet and easy to use at any time and any place this skill is like is great for regulating anxiety and panic....just be sure you've brushed your teeth or you might get some nasty looks.
Deep Breathing
What does it mean to validate someone's feelings?
Acknowledge that their feelings are real and understandable without necessarily agreeing with their thoughts or behavior.
A person with this diagnosis has a very hard time knowing what is real and what is not real. Often times paired with seeing or hearing things that are not there.
What is schizophrenia
Physical and/or psychological symptoms that can occur when someone reduces or stops using a substance after developing dependence.
Withdrawal
Negative attitudes, beliefs, or stereotypes about a person or group, often related to mental illness.
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.
Someone disagrees with your opinion and you feel yourself getting angry. What's a healthy response?
Stay respectful, take a pause, acknowledge the disagreement, or walk away and return when calm.
A trigger
Name three things that can increase someone's risk of relapse.
Stress, triggers, returning to old environments, lack of support, untreated mental health symptoms, substance availability, etc.