mental health terms
coping skills
trivia
myths and facts
PTSD and symptoms
100

This disorder involves ongoing depressed mood or loss of interest, along with symptoms that interfere with daily life.

What is Major Depressive Disorder?
100

This DBT skill uses temperature change, intense exercise, paced breathing, and progressive muscle relaxation to reduce intense emotions quickly.

What is TIPP? 

100

This planet is known at the red planet.

What is mars? 

100

Myth or fact: Mental health symptoms can affect thoughts, feelings, behaviors, relationships, and physical health.

Fact


100

what does PTSD stand for?

What is POST-TRAUMATIC Stress DISORDER

200

This disorder involves excessive, difficult-to-control worry about multiple areas of life for at least six months, often with restlessness, tension, fatigue, or difficulty concentrating.

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

200

This coping skill stands for Stop, Take a step back, Observe, and Proceed mindfully.

what is the STOP Skill?

200

This author wrote Romeo and Juliet.

What is William Shakespeare?

200

People with mental illness cannot recover or improve.

myth

200

This is an emotional or physical response to an event or situation that feels deeply threatening, overwhelming, or unsafe.

What is trauma

300

This disorder may develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event and can involve flashbacks, nightmares, avoidance, negative mood changes, and feeling constantly on guard.

What is PTSD?
300

This grounding skill redirects attention to the present by noticing things you can see, hear, feel, smell, and taste.


What is Five Senses Grounding? 

300

What vitamin is produced when skin is exposed to sunlight? 

What is Vitamin D? 
300

Medication is the only treatment for mental health conditions.

myth - treatment may include therapy, meds, coping skills ,lifesyle changes, and support. 

300

Refusing to talk about a traumatic event or avoiding people, places, and activities that serve as reminders are examples of this symptom group.

What is avoidance? 
400

This disorder involves episodes of depression and episodes of mania or hypomania, which may include unusually elevated or irritable mood, increased energy, reduced need for sleep, and impulsive behavior.

What is Bipolar Disorder?

400

This coping skill involves acknowledging reality as it is, without approving of it, fighting it, or pretending that it feels fair.

What is Radical Acceptance?

400

This mammal is the only one capable of true flight.

what is a bat?

400

Myth or fact: Someone can simply “snap out of” depression or anxiety.

What is a myth? Mental health conditions often require support and treatment.

400

this sudden wave of intense fear or discomfort can cause a racing heart, shortness of breath, shaking, sweating, dizziness, or a feeling of losing control.

What is a panic attack? 

500

This serious mental health disorder can involve hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking or behavior, reduced emotional expression, and difficulty functioning in daily life.

What is Schizophrenia? 

500

This DBT concept describes the balanced state that combines emotional understanding with reasonable thinking.

what is Wise Mind? 

500

This instrument has 88 keys.

What is a piano? 

500
myth or fact: OCD is being extremely organized and clean. 

what is myth?OCD involves unwanted, intrusive thoughts or urges and repetitive behaviors or mental rituals that can cause significant distress or interfere with daily life.


500

Staying constantly alert for danger and scanning the environment for threats is known as what?

What is hypervigilance?