MH history
Families often sent loved ones here when they could not care for their mental illness.
What is a psychiatric hospital?
The body's reaction to any change
What is stress?
While many experts highlight the current physical health issues of COVID, many experts fear that the next wave will bring these problems
What is mental health?
Identifying these subsets of people are important to maintaining your mental health.
What is a support system?
These activities are forms of mindfulness
What is yoga, grounding, body scans?
As a result of closing down psychiatric hospitals, this increased in society.
What is stigma?
Proactive steps you take in order to reduce your risk.
What is prevention?
Legal age youth can consent to mental health services in most states.
14 years old.
This model allows you to work within a group with some commonalities.
What is group therapy?
Doing this before bed or when feeling anxious can help decrease anxiety.
What is deep breathing?
This term is used to describe the shut down of many hospitals throughout the country.
What is institutionalization?
An approach to challenge irrational thoughts?
What is cognitive restructuring, or what is CBT?
Many mentally ill end up here because of the lack of appropriate levels of care.
What is Jail or Prison?
Talking to these professionals can help you manage.
What is a therapist or psychologist?
These are different activities that you can do for yourself
what is self care?
One positive that came out of shutting down hospitals?
What is the rise in psychotropic medications aka medications.
Long term unaddressed issues can lead to this.
What is mental illness?
This agency is throughout the United States with different chapters, one goal is to provide affordable mental health support to families and individuals.
What is NAMI?
Combined with talk therapy, this is one of the more effective ways to manage your mental illness
What are medications?
This is good for your mental health and physical health
What is exercise?
This was the last psychiatric hospital to close its doors in 2016 in Washington DC.
What is St. Elizabeth's hospital?
Two weeks of depressed mood, change in appetite, changes in sleep patterns.
What is depression?
New policy seeking for this group of individuals to work within the police force to address mental health issues.
What is a social worker?
This drug commonly used to help with "numbing", is actually a depressant.
What is marijuana?
This activity helps you process situations by writing it out
What is journaling?