Diagnoses
This disorder comes from experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event.
What is PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder)?
A medication that helps alleviate the symptoms of depression.
What is antidepressants?
This coping strategy involves focusing on inhaling and exhaling.
What is Deep breathing?
Having a mental illness means you are weak.
False
What has hands but cannot clap?
A Clock.
This diagnosis makes a person fee sad, irritable, empty. It can also cause a loss of pleasure or interest in activities, for most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks.
What is depression?
Medications mainly used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and OCD (obsessive- compulsive disorder).
What is antipsychotics?
This coping strategy involves going for a walk/run, lifting weight, boxing and/or other physical activities.
What is exercise?
What you eat does not effect how you feel.
False
What is more useful when it is broken?
An egg
This disorder is characterized by excessive fear or worry.
What is Anxiety?
Medications used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy.
What is Stimulants?
This coping strategy focuses on addressing the emotional triggers behind unhealthy actions and teaching people how to respond to them in positive ways.
What is CBT?
Good sleep hygiene is important for mental health.
True
What 5-letter word typed in all capital letters can be read the same upside down?
SWIMS
This disorder is characterized by significant impairments in perception and changes in behavior. Symptoms may include persistent delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, highly disorganized behavior, or extreme agitation.
What is Schizophrenia?
Medications that help alleviate excessive worry and fear.
What is Anti-anxiety medications?
This coping strategy is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
What is Meditation?
If you're feeling sad or worried you should reach out to someone you trust.
True
What goes up, but never comes down?
Age.
People with this disorder experience alternating depressive episodes with periods of manic symptoms.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
The most common and first mood stabilizer used for bipolar disorder.
What is Lithium?
A group of people talking about different subjects to help learn or discuss coping strategies. Sometimes groups can discuss different topics and also help group members get through different situations they may need guidance on or struggling with.
What is Group Therapy?
You can always tell if someone has mental illness.
False.
Why is Europe like a frying pan?
Because it has Greece at the bottom