Mental Health
A type of treatment for mental disorders
What is
medication
psychotherapy
hospitalization
group therapy
Signals that tell your mind and body how to react; feelings
What are emotions
What are stress management skills?
Skills that help an individual handle stress in a healthy, effective way
A condition in which real or imagined fears are difficult to control
What is an anxiety disorder?
What is a phobia?
Strong irrational fear of something specific
What is personal identity?
Your sense of yourself as a unique individual
What healthy way to deal with emotions?
Take several deep
breaths, Walk away from the
situation until you calm
down, Engage in physical
activity, Write down feelings in a
journal, Use positive feelings to
inspire yourself, Talk to friends and family
for support, Seek professional help if
emotions do not go away
The condition of feeling uneasy or worried about something that may happen
What is anxiety
What is a mood disorder?
An illness that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living
What is a mental disorder?
An illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of a person
What is self esteem?
A persons overall emotional evaluation of his or her worth
Mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations
What are defense mechanisms?
These are the two types of distress
What are chronic and episodic?
Some form of purging or clearing the digestive tract follows cycles of overeating
What is bulimia?
Anything that causes stress
What is a stressor
This is the percentage of teens who will struggle with a mental disorder in any given year
What is 20%?
What is denial?
Unconscious lack of recognition of something that is obvious to others
Stress Caused by Positive Situations and Events
What is eustress
A disorder where people disregard the rules and rights of others. Sometimes referred to as sociopaths
What is antisocial personality disorder?
What is personality?
A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique
Deep breathing increases the supply of oxygen to your brain and stimulates this part of the nervous system
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Making excuses to explain a situation or behavior, rather than taking responsibility for it
What is rationalization
What two hormones are released in our stress response?
Cortisol and Adrenaline
A mental disorder in which a person loses contact with reality?
What is schizophrenia?
What is stigma?
A mark of shame or disapproval that results
in an individual being shunned or rejected
by others.