Mental Health
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?
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is TRUE?
This disorder involves sudden, unexpected bursts of intense physical panic (racing heart, shortness of breath) without a clear trigger.
What is Panic Disorder?
The natural emotional and physical response to losing a loved one, pet, or major life routine.
What is Grief (or Bereavement)?
"Sarah eats her lunch alone in a bathroom stall because she is paralyzed by the fear that peers are staring at her or judging her."
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act.
Depression
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is FALSE?
Characterized by repetitive unwanted thoughts (obsessions) followed by repetitive behaviors (compulsions) performed to reduce anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Even while grieving a significant loss, a person experiencing typical grief is still usually capable of experiencing brief moments of this emotion when reminiscing.
What is Joy / Humor / Happiness?
Zoe goes five days sleeping only 2 hours a night, talking rapidly, and spending all her savings before crashing into bed crying for weeks."
What is Bipolar Disorder?
A symptom of depression is a persistently ____ mood.
WHAT IS SAD or DEPRESSED or UNHAPPY
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as ________
Gratitude
A mood disorder featuring dramatic shifts between high-energy manic phases and low-energy depressive phases.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
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
"Marcus wakes up screaming from nightmares and jumps at loud popping sounds ever since surviving a car crash last year."
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Impulsively buying things on Amazon and staying up for days is commonly associated with this.
What is Mania or Bipolar?
Assistance from these and being compliant allow us to focus the mind to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state
What is meditation
This disorder causes depressive symptoms to predictably appear during dark winter months and disappear when spring arrives.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
Name 3 things you can do to help a friend who thinks they may have a mental health problem.
Listen to them, spend time with them, encourage them to seek help, help them make appointments/go with them. If it is serious then tell someone else
Noah feels overwhelming anxiety unless he checks that the stove knobs are turned off exactly ten times every night."
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
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 that is excellent for managing emotions. Not only is it effective, but is also discreet and easy to use at any time and any place.
Deep Breathing
A complex condition involving auditory or visual hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech patterns.
What is Schizophrenia?
What is important to remember when you become angry?
STOP and think before acting.
Respond, don't react
Practice coping skills (deep breathing, counting, self-talk, etc.)
Walk away and remove yourself from the situation if needed
Sophia loses track of time and her friends report meeting her alternate personality named 'Sasha' who speaks with a British accent."
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
List 3 coping skills?
1= Listen to music
2= Talk to someone
3= Go for a walk
Changes require us to ______ and _______.
Experiencing too many changes within a brief period of time often creates the idea that we aren't in control of events
adjust and adapt
A long-term personality disorder marked by a pervasive, unfounded distrust and suspicion that others are out to deceive or harm you.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
"Victor refuses to work on group projects because he is convinced his lab partners are secretly spying on him and plotting his failure."
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?