Mental Health
This 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.
Mental Health
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
True.
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.
True or False: Medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
False: Medication can be helpful, but therapy and counseling are also effective forms of overcoming mental illness.
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.
True or False: Children are too young to develop a mental illness like depression or anxiety.
False
This daytime talk show host and voice of an animated forgetful fish has opened up about her struggles with depression
Ellen DeGeneres
932,000 persons died in ______ since 1999 from opioid overdoses
What is the United States?
Double Jeopardy: This actress, well known for her extraterrestrial role as a child, has recently shared that she has been sober for several years.
Drew Barrymore
Increasing exercise, diversifying your diet, and taking supplements (pre/probiotics), as well as decreasing intake of processed foods, sugars, and red meat, can improve your gut health.
True
Focusing on good things from your day, or things that you are thankful for, is a coping strategy known as ________.
Gratitude
True or False: People with mental health challenges have to take special tests to get a job or buy a house
False
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
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling of terror for no known reason is an example of this.
What is a panic attack?
Focusing on the mind (and breath) to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.
Meditation
Double Jeopardy: The hospital, supportive family/friends, counselors, and therapists are all places you can go for support. There is also a suicide hotline you can reach at what number?
988
This is a simple technique that is excellent for managing emotions. Not only is it effective, but is also discreet and easy to use at any time and any place.
Deep breathing.
This type of meditation focused on tensing and releasing different parts of your body.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation.
A mental illness that presents as persistently low or depressed mood and a loss of interest in activities that you used to enjoy.
What is depression?
Double Jeopardy: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance are the five stages of _____________.
Grief (I'll double your points if you share examples of each stage)
True of false. You need to know exactly what you're going to say and how you're going to say it before you talk to a counselor
False. Counselors are there to listen to whatever is bothering you.
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?
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?