Vocabulary
Health conditions involving changes in thinking, emotion or behavior
Mental Illnesses
Prolonged feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and sadness. It can be severe enough to disrupt daily activities.
Depression
Being unable to resist the urge to engage in harmful behaviors (physically or socially)
3 physical responses to stress
Sweating, heart racing, breathing faster
5 emotions everyone has (Hint: Inside Out)
Joy, Fear, Sadness, Disgust, Anger
Definition of stress
Your body's reaction to any change that requires an adjustment or response
A strong, irrational fear of something specific, such as heights or social situations
Phobia
Experiencing attacks of sudden, unexplained feelings of terror. These are accompanied by physical symptoms such as trembling, increased heart rate, shortness of breath, or dizziness
Panic Disorder
3 emotional/mental responses to stress
Anxiety, fear, irritability
The ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes
Empathy
How you feel about yourself
Self-Esteem
A disorder that may develop after exposure to a traumatic event (car accident, violent attack, serving in the military).
PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Being excessively worried and tense for no reason. People with this disorder startle easily and have difficulty concentrating, relaxing, and sleeping
Anxiety (GAD-Generalized Anxiety Disorder)
Where stress begins
If a mental health professional thinks you have a mental illness, he or she will give what you are experiencing a name, such as depression or anxiety, and this is called a ___________
Diagnosis
When someone sees you in a negative way because of your mental illness.
Stigma
Developing harmful eating behaviors due to believing you are under/overweight
Eating Disorders: Anorexia/Bulimia
Symptoms of this mental health disorder are: Flashbacks, nightmares, emotional numbness, guiltiness, sleeplessness, and trouble concentrating
The body's main stress hormone
Cortisol
2 things that can help a person with a mental health disorder:
Therapy (talking to someone), medication, hospital stay
Definition of empathy
Mental disorder in which a person loses touch with reality.
Schizophrenia
The best-known symptom for this mental health disorder is starving yourself to become super thin
Anorexia
3 health coping strategies for dealing with stress
Coloring, yoga, deep breathing, exercise, laughing, playing a game
Most common mental health illness