MH Symptoms
A few symptom of this condition are anticipating the worst, racing/pounding heart, or panic.
What is Anxiety Disorder?
This is the most common treatment for ADHD.
What is medication?
The most commonly diagnosed mental illness in teens.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
This activity, often associated with young children, is actually a self-care strategy that helps to calm anxiety by 'drawing' on both right and left brain to work together.
What is Coloring?
In teens the most common symptoms of this disorder are irritability, decrease interest in activities, and hopelessness.
What is Depression?
For this condition, psychotherapy as well as medications have been shown to be helpful, with evidence that combining psychotherapy and medications may be more effective than either treatment alone.
What is Depression?
This group of disorders is often thought to only impact girls.
What is eating disorders?
These are two Physical Self-care Strategies.
What are: yoga, stretching, exercise, healthy snacks, hydrating, napping, going to bed early, etc?
Cycling moods, ranging from extreme highs/manic to extreme lows/depressed are the main symptom of this disorder. Psychosis
What is Bipolar Disorder?
For this disorder, psychtherapy and medications have been shown to be helpful, though research generally shows that psychotherapy is more effective than medications, and that adding medications does not significantly improve outcomes from psychotherapy alone.
What is anxiety disorders?
While sometimes viewed as a sign of weakness, this condition is actually a response due to changes in the brain and body of the person after certain life experiences.
What is PTSD?
This practice of noticing thoughts and letting them go, without judgment is an important self-care strategy.
What is mindfulness?
Intrusive, irrational thoughts and repetitive actions are symptoms of this condition.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
These two components of treatment, when combined, are most effective for OCD.
What are psychotherapy and medication?
This mental illness is often associated with violence and aggression, but is actually more likely to cause dellusions and hallucinations.
This activity involves creative expression that can result in improved mental health, decreased stress, and most importantly is fun.
What is art, art therapy, etc?
Time blindness, working memory deficits, and emotional reactivity are three lesser known symptoms of this disorder.
What is ADHD?
This treatment continues to be rather controversial, often thought to be a form of torture; however, patients who have undergone it often report it is effective at addressing persistent, treatement resistent symptoms of depression and other mood disorders.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electro-shock therapy?
The most commonly reported symptom of this disorder is amnesia, or memory loss for periods of time; though people often associate much more dramatic symptoms, such as cycling through various personalities, to this diagnosis.
What is dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder)?
This is one self-care stategy you can use everyday.