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?
Overdose deaths among teens nearly doubled in this year
What is 2020?
True or False: LGBTQ teens use substances at a significantly higher rate than their straight peers
What is TRUE?
True or False: It's possible to eliminate all stressors from our lives?
When you exercise this chemical is released in the brain
What is endorphins (and dopamine)?
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is TRUE?
The majority of teens have their first exposure to opioids here
What is the Dentist Office/Wisdom Teeth Surgery?
What percentage of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year?
What is 45%?
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.
What is Deep Breathing?
This vitamin increases energy levels and enhances your mood
What is Vitamin D?
(Can be obtained via food & the sun!)
26% of Americans ages 18 and older - about 1 in 4 adults - suffers from what?
What is mental health disorder?
True or False: A majority of teens who overdose on opioids have no prior opioid use history
What is TRUE?
What is a type of therapy, used on people in the LGBTQ community, that has been consistently associated with negative mental health outcomes and greater risk for suicide and is widely opposed by all major medical and mental health organizations?
What is Conversion Therapy?
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as ________
What is Gratitude?
It's important to eat a balanced diet including the primary food groups, which are...
What are...Vegetables, Fruits, Dairy, Protein, & Grains?
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is FALSE?
Even brief, low-dose exposure to X in early adolescence creates long-term changes in the brain, alters the reward pathways in the brain, and increases the risk for developing substance use disorders and impulse control disorders.
What is NICOTINE?
What is one factor that directly lowers the rate of mental health and substance use concerns for LGBTQ youth?
What is high social support from their family?
What is LGBTQ affirming schools?
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.
This can result in attention problems, memory problems lead to bad decision making, slow down reaction time, and stunt creativity
What is Sleep Deprivation?
While these particular things are compelling, they're not always reliable b/c they distort reality and may negatively affect how we behave.
What are Feelings?
There is a link between the use of X and first psychotic breaks/psychosis (i.e. Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder w/Psychotic Features, Depression w/Psychotic Features, etc.)
What is Cannabis/Marijuana/Weed/etc.
Even higher risk if anyone in your family is diagnosed with these disorders
What is one resource LGBTQ youth can utilize if struggling with mental health needs?
The Trevor Project LGBTQ+ Lifeline
Call 866-488-7386
Text "START" to 678678
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 a trusted adult
Research shows that X is essential for maintaining physical and psychological health throughout life, especially in adolescence
What is strong social support?