Mental Health
Our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices.
What is 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?
True or false: Asking someone if they are thinking of suicide will put the idea into their head.
What is False?
True or False: SPC provides free counseling to all students.
What is true?
This female superstar is married to Jay-Z and has struggled with depression
Who is Beyonce?
A common positive coping mechanism
What is support, relaxation, problem-solving, humor, physical activity, etc.?
Answers will vary.
1 in this Americans will experience a mental health disorder in a given year
What is 5?
True or false: Once someone makes up their mind to harm themselves, you can still help them.
What is True?
True or False: I should wait until I really need the help before I go talk to someone.
What is False?
“Asking for help when you’re down or when you’re feeling wobbly or when you’re depressed is actually the most powerful thing you can do.” Is a quote from this celebrity about his depression. He also starred in movies such as Jumanji, Central Intelligence, Fast & Furious, and more.
Who is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson?
A common negative coping mechanism
What are drugs, alcohol, harming yourself physically etc.?
Answers will vary.
True or False: medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
What is False?
The name of the song that the musician Logic released in 2017 featuring the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Number.
What is 1-800-273-8255?
True or False: Getting treatment like therapy is always really expensive.
The singer opened up about her mental health when she was awarded the 2019 McLean Award for Mental Health Advocacy. She announced that she would be taking a social media break and checked herself into a facility for help with her mental health the year before.
She said in her acceptance speech, "I think that we are better when we tell the truth and, so, this is my truth: Last year, I was suffering mentally and emotionally, and I wasn't able to stay all that kept together. I wasn't able to hold a smile or to keep things normal."
She has been open about her Bipolar Disorder battle.
Who is Selena Gomez?
A person who is physically sick goes to see a doctor of medicine, a person who is mentally sick goes to see this type of clinician.
What is therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, counselor, etc.?
Symptoms of this illness may include flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety
What is Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
Something 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 someone else, etc.
Answers will vary.
True or False: You must be suicidal to call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
What is False?
As well as exploring her internal struggles via her music, the experimental pop singer has also been refreshingly candid in interviews, speaking about her struggles with depression, body dysmorphia, and more. “Depression has controlled sort of like everything in my life,"
This sensibility is reflected in much of her art, and most recently in her song “What Was I Made For,"
Who is Billie Eilish?
Mental health _________ is when a person is viewed in a negative way for having a mental health diagnosis.
Symptoms of this illness may include issues with being able to think clearly, manage emotions, and make decisions; and can also cause the person to lose touch with reality.
What is schizophrenia?
Warning signs for suicide
Talking about: wanting to die, great guilt or shame, being a burden to others
Feeling: empty/hopeless/trapped/no reason to live, extremely sad/anxious/agitated/rage, unbearable emotional or physical pain
Behavior Changes like: Making a plan, researching ways to die, withdrawing from friends/saying goodbye, taking dangerous risks, displaying extreme mood swings, eating or sleeping more or less, using drugs or alcohol more often
And others
Number to call or text if you need resources but aren't sure what organization can help.
What is 211?
Seize the Awkward Spokesperson
“I've always been told I've got to be strong—thick skinned, stiff upper lip, tough as nails, But to be everything for everybody? It wears on you. Black don't crack, they say. But it can. I can. We all can.”
Goes on to remind viewers that vulnerability is strength and that we all need a little help from our friends.
Who is Megan Thee Stallion?