Mental Health Conditions
Depressed mood most of the day, almost daily (e.g., feels sad, hopeless, empty, irritable).
What is Depression?
Short-term support for current presenting issues; broader approaches such as person-centered.
What is a counselor?
Pick a category and name as many items as you can in that category.
What is categories?
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is TRUE?
True or False: People with mental health challenges have to take special tests to get a job or buy a house.
What is FALSE?
Worrying about multiple things most days and difficulty controlling worry.
Long-term support for recurring issues, utilizing specific psychotherapeutic interventions
What is a therapist?
Find a pleasurable way to engage each of your 5 senses. Doing so will help to soothe your negative emotions.
What is self-soothe with senses?
Go to hospital, reach out to supportive family/friends, contact therapist, call/text hotline, go to the county mental health office
Suicide hotline: 988
text OREGON to 741741
What I can do for support when in a crisis?
TRUE or FALSE: around 1 in 5 Americans will experience a mental illness in a given year.
What is TRUE?
Defined by experiences of mania, hypomania, and depression.
What is Bipolar?
Aids in problem-solving, living arrangements and promotes social change. They work with people to enhance their ability to function in society.
What is a social worker?
Engaging in activities you find enjoyable and by taking care of responsibilities that you have been neglecting.
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.
What are ways to support a friend who is struggling?
Exercise, mindfulness, positive friendships, talking about your problems, having an outlet for anger and frustration, getting enough sleep, participating in a hobby or leisure activity you enjoy, eating healthy, etc.
What are things that can support positive mental health?
Recurrent, involuntary, and intrusive distressing memories of traumatic events.
What is PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
They hold a PhD in psychology; professionals who studied human behavior and mental processes.
What is a psychologist?
Tensing and relaxing the muscles throughout your body, you can achieve a powerful feeling of relaxation.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
An intervention exploring how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors impact each other and how we respond to situations; can be a short-term intervention.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
True or false: all stress is bad.
What is FALSE?
Failing to give close attention to details and/or has difficulty waiting their turn.
What is ADHD?
Holds a medical degree, can prescribe medication to support mental concerns.
What is a psychiatrist?
Purposefully take in details of your surroundings using each of your senses. Strive to notice small details that your mind would usually tune out.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
An intervention branched from CBT and adapted to support individuals experiencing emotions very intensely; helps people accept the reality of their lives and behaviors, as well as learning to change their lives and unhelpful behaviors.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Mental, Physical, Spiritual, Intellectual, Social, Occupational/Academic
What are areas of wellness?