Mental Health Stats
True or False
Diagnoses
Coping Skills
Celebrities and Mental Illness
100
This fraction of individuals account for mental health or substance use related visits in most emergency rooms
What is 1 our of 8
100
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is TRUE?
100
A mental health disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts, speech or behavior.
What is schizophrenia
100
This skill involves cultivating your internal dialogue to manifest healthy thinking
What is positive self talk
100
This daytime talk show host and voice of an animated forgetful fish has opened up about her struggles with depression
Ellen DeGeneres
200
This fraction of individuals have a mental illness
What is 1 out of 5
200
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
What is FALSE?
200
This is a mental health disorder that is characterized by persistent sadness and a lack of interest or pleasure in previously rewarding or enjoyable activities.
What is depression
200
Using substances, violence, shutting down, and being non compliant with medication are examples of...
Negative (maladaptive) coping skills
200
This Olympic swimmer was diagnosed with ADHD at age 9 which made it hard for him to concentrate in school
Michael Phelps
300
This mental health related concept was the second leading cause of death among U.S. children in 2020
What is suicide
300
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.
300
This mental health disorder is characterized by racing thoughts, feelings of restlessness, and excessive worry.
What is anxiety
300
This coping skills involves documenting daily thoughts, feelings, and emotions
What is journaling
300
This classical composer was diagnosed with a serious case of Bipolar disorder - which is characterized by periods of extreme highs and extreme lows.
Beethoven
400
This gender is diagnosed with mental health conditions at higher rates representing 7 % of the population.
What are females
400
True or False: People with mental health challenges have to take special tests to get a job or buy a house
What is FALSE?
400
This mental health disorder is characterized by shifts in mood that include emotional highs and lows
What is bipolar disorder
400
Expressing good things from your day/life is a coping strategy known as ________
Gratitude, or being grateful
400
This actor/comedian died in 2014 due to mental health issues.
Robin Williams.
He passed from complications of Lewy body dementia. This form of dementia is associated with abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain. These deposits, called Lewy bodies, affect chemicals in the brain whose changes, in turn, can lead to problems with thinking, movement, behavior, and mood. Lewy body dementia is one of the most common causes of dementia.
500
This age group has the highest rate of experiencing mental health conditions.
What are young adults.
Young adults (18-25) account for 30.6% of mental health dx's. Followed by ages 26-49 (25.3%) and those ages 50+ (14.5%)
500
True or false: all stress is bad.
False. Some stress can be motivating and is a natural reaction your body has to certain events. It can sometimes give us an "extra push". When stress becomes too much to handle, that might be an indication to start making some positive mental health changes
500
This is a mental health disorder characterized by flashbacks, intrusive thoughts, shifts in perceptions, and nightmares
What is PTSD
500
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
500
This 16th president of the United States suffered from depression and anxiety attacks
Abraham Lincoln