Disorders
A mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations. It is often accompanied by low self-esteem, loss of interest in normally enjoyable activities, low energy, and pain without a clear cause.
Major Depressive Disorder
These antidepressants are a type of antidepressant that work by increasing levels of serotonin within the brain.
What is SSRI?
Mental health agency or social service workers who coordinate care for their clients.
Who are case managers?
The most abused drug in America.
What is alcohol?
The number commonly counted to in order to avoid frustration.
What is 10?
A disorder characterized by persistent and excessive worry about a number of different things.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Abilify, Latuda, and Zypreza all are commonly used to treat this disorder.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
These mental health professionals commonly called "workers" help us to build necessary behavior skills so we can live in the community.
Who are skill builders?
True or False: Less than 12% of people with addictions are receiving treatment.
What is True?
A type of breathing used to calm down.
What is deep breathing?
A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.
What is Schizophrenia?
This antipsychotic drug is used to treat psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, to control motor (movement) and verbal (for example, Tourette's syndrome) tics and is used to treat severe behavior problems in children.
What is Haloperidol?
A professional who prescribes mental health medications.
Who is a psychiatrist?
2.4 million are addicted to this class of drugs, which are sometimes referred to as Julies, jams, or PP's.
What are opioids?
A type of writing done with or without a prompt and commonly used to cope with worry or depression.
What is journaling?
A mental disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, concentration, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This medication is used to treat certain mental/mood conditions (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, sudden episodes of mania or depression associated with bipolar disorder).
What is Seroquel?
A mental health professional trained to engage in discussion to help overcome different issues in a client's life.
Who is a counselor?
This class of drugs includes LSD, PCP, peyote, and mescaline.
What are hallucinogens?
These techniques use your five senses or tangible objects — things you can touch — to help you move through distress.
What are grounding exercises?
A condition characterized by difficulties regulating emotion. This means that people who experience this disorder feel emotions intensely and for extended periods of time, and it is harder for them to return to a stable baseline after an emotionally triggering event.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
What is anxiety or a panic attack?
A person with a bachelor's degree in social work or a related field with 1500 hours of experience working with adults or children with mental disorders.
What is a QMHP? (Qualified Mental Health Professional)
True or False: 45 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol.
What is False? 23 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol by current estimates.
A type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment.
What is mindfulness?