Diagnoses
An abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physical signs such as tension, sweating and increased pulse rate.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
The practice of psychologically manipulating someone into questioning their own sanity, memory or powers of reasoning.
What is gaslighting?
YES OR NO: When my friend tells me they have feelings of harming themselves, and ask me to keep it a secret, I should keep it a secret and honor their request.
NO - their safety is more important!
The fundamental units of the brain and nervous system, the cells responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world.
What is a neuron?
Conscious strategies used to reduce unpleasant emotions.
What are coping skills?
A mood disorder marked by varying degrees of sadness, despair and loneliness. Typically companies by inactivity, guilt, loss of concentration, social withdrawal, sleep disturbances and sometimes suicidal tendencies.
What is depression?
A self-centered personality style characterized as having an excessive preoccupation with oneself and one's own needs, often at the expense of others.
What is narcissism?
Three reasons why people hesitate to get help.
What is: shame, stigma, resources?
Part of the brain: home to areas that manage thinking, emotions, personality, judgment, self-control, muscle control and movements, memory storage and more!
What is the frontal lobe?
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?
Short-term form of behavioral treatment. Helps people problem-solve. Also reveals the relationships between beliefs, thoughts and feelings and the behaviors that follow.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?
YES OR NO: Are you helping your friend if they come and talk to you and you don't have any advice to give them?
YES - the friend being able to vent will help them feel better, sort out their feelings, etc.
The primary stress hormone.
What is cortisol?
The limits and rules we set for ourselves within relationships
What are boundaries?
Any of several psychological disorders of mood, characterized usually by alternating episodes of depression and mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
A dysfunctional relationship dynamic, where one person assumes the role of the "giver" sacrificing their own needs and wellbeing for the sake of the other or the "taker".
What is codependency?
Three things you can do to help a friend who thinks they have a mental health issue.
What is: Listen to them, spend time with them, encourage them to seek help, don't judge, if it is serious - tell someone
Region of the brain, shaped like a seahorse, that has a major role in learning and memory.
What is the hippocampus?
Willingness to show emotion or to allow one's weaknesses to be seen or known
What is vulnerability?
Marked by combination of schizophrenia symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, and mood disorder symptoms such as depression or mania?
What is schizoaffective disorder?
An inescapably stressful event that overwhelms people's existing coping mechanisms.
What is trauma?
The three main neurotransmitters.
What are dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin?
Refers to patterns of bonding that people learn as children and carry into their adult relationships. Typically thought to originate from the type of care one received in their earliest years.
What are attachment styles?