Mental Health
What is perception?
The condition of feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen
What is Anxiety?
An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person, preventing them from leading a happy and healthful life.
What is a mental disorder?
Feelings of prolonged helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness.
What is depression?
To face and deal with responsibilities, problems, or difficulties, especially successfully or in a calm or adequate manner.
What is coping?
Response to a stressful event such as the death of a pet.
What is reactive depression?
Two major body systems that are active in the body's stress response.
What is the nervous and endocrine systems?
An illness in which real or imagined fears prevent a person from enjoying life.
What are anxiety disorders?
T/F: The stigma attached to having a mental disorder may prevent someone from seeking treatment.
True
T/F: People who are suicidal often feel as if no one cares about them.
Name 2 stages of the grief process
What is denial, emotions, anger, bargaining, depression, remorse, acceptance, hope?
Nightmares and flashbacks are a symptom of this disorder.
Anything that causes stress
A fear that is so strong, a person goes to extreme measures to avoid the fear-producing object or activity.
What is a phobia?
When a person has difficulty distinguishing between real and imaginary events.
What is schizophrenia?
Name 2 suicide risk factors
Substance abuse, bullying, emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, prior suicide attempts, family history of mental disorders...
The capacity to recover from difficulties.
What is resiliency?
T/F: Feeling nervous before an important test indicates an anxiety disorder.
False
The use of certain medications to treat or reduce the symptoms of a mental disorder.
What is drug therapy?
Persistent fears that lead to trapped in a pattern of repeated behavior or thoughts
What is OCD?
What is bipolar disorder?
T/F: 75% of individuals who commit suicide suffer from depression, or another mental disorder, or abuse drugs and alcohol.
False - 90%
If I am beginning to look to the future, I am in the last stage of the grieving process known as this.
What is hope?
This stage results when muscles over work.
What is physical fatigue?
A physical reaction that results from stress rather than from an illness or injury.
What is a psychosomatic response?
Feelings of fear/dread, trembling, restlessness, muscle tension, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath
What are symptoms of anxiety?
Anti-depressants and counseling/therapy
What are 2 methods to treat mental disorders?
Name 2 warning signs of suicide.
Withdrawal from family, friends, and social activities, drop in grades, giving away possessions, talk about it, increased risk taking, personality changes...
What are 3 things that can help you cope with disaster, crisis, and loss?
Family, friends, counselor, routine, help in community, workout, eat healthy, healthy sleep...
This stage results from constant worry, overwork, boredom, or feeling overwhelmed.
What is psychological fatigue?