Resources
A free on-campus resource for all LMU students that provides consultation, group and individual therapy, and emergency services.
What is SPS?
This American president experienced clinical depression, but his periods of profound sadness and suicidal thoughts were called "melancholy" during his lifetime.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
True or False: Mood disorders and mental illnesses are completely biological.
What is False?
(Mental illness is a combination of biology and environment.)
This group of young people is more than twice as likely to feel suicidal and over four times as likely to attempt suicide compared to their peers.
Who are LGBTQ youth?
According to Harvard Health, this is intimately connected to the gut and can cause the following issues: heartburn, inflammation, susceptibility to infections, or abdominal cramps.
This resource on LMU's campus allows students and faculty to anonymously refer students who are experiencing mental health problems so that they can receive care and support.
What is Community of Care?
This famous artist was rumored to eat yellow paint and has been diagnosed by present-day physicians with schizophrenia and possible depression, bipolar disorder, and epilepsy.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
True or False: California is listed in the top five states for lowest rates of suicide.
What is True?
We're fifth on the list, Washington D.C. is first
True or False: 1 in 10 adults experience a mental health condition.
What is False?
1 in 5 adults have a mental health condition. That's over 40 million Americans; more than the populations of New York and Florida combined.
According to Harvard Health, people with depression are two times more likely to have this type of disease.
What is heart disease?
The only organization providing 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ youth.
What is the Trevor Project?
This famous dictator is thought to have possibly suffered from narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, sadistic personality disorder, or schizophrenia.
True or False: Schizophrenia is the only mental illness that involves hallucinations.
What is False?
Some forms of bipolar disorder and depression involve hallucinations.
This state suffers from a significant mental health care shortage: There is only one mental health professional per 1,260 people.
What is Alabama?
According to the Journal of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, patients who used this medication long-term experienced a 33% higher risk of mortality.
What are anti-depressants?
The app/website that provides access to licensed therapists nationwide via message, call, or video chat.
What is betterhelp?
This renowned scientist lived as a recluse after his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle, causing modern researchers to believe that he suffered from agoraphobia and panic disorder.
Who is Charles Darwin?
True or False: A mental illness will last a lifetime.
What is False?
Successful combinations of therapy and medications can improve mental health and even provide complete recovery.
This is the percentage of American adults with a mental illness who do not receive treatment.
What is 56%?
According to researchers at Yale, a healthy diet can decrease the levels of this chemical which is known to play a significant role in depression.
What is glutamate?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This brand new LMU resource, created and facilitated by Agapé Service Organization, will provide peer-to-peer mentorship to first-year students on campus starting on Monday, October 22nd.
This Renaissance artist is thought to have experienced obsessive-compulsive disorder and high-functioning autism due to his single-minded work routine, unusual lifestyle, limited interests, and issues of life control.
Who is Michelangelo?
True or False: A person is either mentally ill or mentally healthy.
What is False?
Mental health is a continuum and people may fall anywhere on the spectrum. It is possible to experience mental health problems without suffering from a mental illness.
This number of youth with major depressive episodes did not receive treatment in 2017.
What is 1.7 million?
According to the CDC and Kaiser Permanente, exposure to this can highly affect the immune system, hormonal system, and how our DNA is read and inscribed. People who are exposed to this also triple their lifetime risk of heart disease and lung cancer and a 20-year difference in life expectancy.
What is childhood trauma?