Mental Health
Coping Methods
True or False Statements
100

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?

100

What is a simple technique that is used best for controlling emotions?

What is deep breathing

100

True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.

What is False

200

This is a common mental illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. 

What is depression

200

Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as ________

What is gratitude

200

True or False: Medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.

False: Although medication can be helpful, it is only temporary. Therapy and counseling are are effective forms to help for the long term.

300

A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.

What is a panic attack

300

What are the two most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges?

What are medication and therapy

300

True or False: People with serious mental illness are violent and unstable.

False. Only 3%–5% of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness.

400

What are three changes in behavior that could come from mental illness?

What are drug/alcohol abuse, withdrawing from social contact, and becoming more irritable.

400

This is a type of meditation where you focus on the intenseness of what you are feeling or sensing at the moment

What is mindfulness

400

True or false: All stress is bad.

False. Some stress can be motivating and is a natural reaction your body has to certain events.