the broad term used to describe a condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions can impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is mental illness?
What is a treatable condition that newborns may experience as a result of prenatal exposure to certain substances, most often opioids?
What is Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?
A mental disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts, speech or behavior.
What is Schizophrenia?
True or False: medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
False: medication can be helpful, but different types of therapy help to overcome or improve a mental illness.
This daytime talk show host and voice of an animated forgetful fish has opened up about her struggles with depression
Ellen DeGeneres
TRUE or FALSE: around 1 in 5 Americans have a diagnosed mental illness.
What is TRUE? (57.8 million persons in 2021)
932,000 persons died in ______ since 1999 from opioid overdoses
What is the United States?
A mental disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts and/or behaviors that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
What are two things that can promote positive mental health?
Exercise, mindfulness, positive friendships, talking about your problems, having an outlet for anger and frustration, getting enough sleep, participating in a hobby or leisure activity you enjoy, eating healthy...??
This actress, well known for her extraterrestrial role as a child, has recently shared that she has been sober for several years.
Drew Barrymore
A type of talk therapy aimed at helping people learn how to cope with difficult situations by challenging irrational thoughts and changing behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
About 70,000 persons in Tennessee are addicted to what?
What are opioids?
A mental illness that presents as persistently low or depressed mood and a loss of interest in activities that you used to enjoy.
True or False: People with mental health challenges have to take special tests to get a job or buy a house.
What is FALSE?
This classical composer was diagnosed with a serious case of Bipolar disorder - which is characterized by periods of extreme highs and extreme lows.
Beethoven
The book clinicians use to diagnose mental health disorders?
What is the DSM (5)-- The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
TBI crime labs began investigating this substance in 2012, when there was 3 overdosing deaths. The number of overdosing deaths rose to 1,550 in 2019
What is fentanyl?
A mental health condition that develops following a traumatic event characterized by intrusive thoughts about the incident, recurrent distress/anxiety, flashback and avoidance of similar situations.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Expressing good things from your day/life is a coping strategy known as ________
Gratitude, or being grateful
This actor, known to some as Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is also a known face for sobriety as he rose from a lifetime of substance abuse, legal troubles, poverty, to now 20 years sober.
Robert Downey JR.
This kind of therapy uses concepts of mindfulness and acceptance or being aware of and attentive to the current situation and emotional state.
What is Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
A veterinary tranquilizer that is cut in dope to give fentanyl a longer high and softer crash is known as?
What is Xzylazine or Tranq
A mental health condition defined by periods (or episodes) of extreme mood disturbances that affect mood, thoughts, and behavior.
What is bipolar disorder
This is a therapeutic technique where you focus your awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations.
What is mindfulness
This British singer, pianist and composer music legend was inspired to get sober in 1990 after a battle with excess drugs, alcoholism, and an eating disorder.
Who is Elton John?