Mental Health
A condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior, or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
Mental disorder
True or False: A mental disorder should be diagnosed and treated by a trained mental health professional
True
True or False: Learned emotions are emotions expressed by people in all cultures
What is False
List the 4 primary emotions
Sad, anger, happy, fear
Putting your own faults onto another person
Projection
This is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act.
Depression
The fight or flight response occurs during this stage of stress
Alarm stage
How does prolonged stress effect the immune system?
Weakens the immune system and can take longer to recover from sickness
Shame, love, guilt
3 learned emotions
Refusing to recognize an emotion or problem
Denial
A symptom of depression is a persistently ____ mood.
SAD or DEPRESSED or UNHAPPY
The ability to recover from extreme or prolonged stress
Resilience
What are 2 healthy coping strategies?
Nature, reading, art, moving, positive thinking, socializing, etc.
What is one way you can overcome procrastination?
Up to Ms. Kovac
Making excuses for actions or feelings
Rationalization
Attaching negative qualities to mental illness
Stigma
A person who accepts nothing less than excellence
Perfectionist
True or false: all stress is bad.
False. Some stress can be motivating and is a natural reaction your body has to certain events. It can sometimes give us an "extra push". When stress becomes too much to handle, that might be an indication to start making some positive mental health changes
The habit of delaying or avoiding tasks that need to be done
Procrastination
Returning to immature behaviors to express emotions
Regression
The brain's expected and usual response to everyday life
Mental distress
These two things influence personality traits
Heredity and environment
Name 2 ways you can support a friend who is struggling with mental health?
Listen to them, spend time with them, encourage them to seek help, help them make appointments/go with them. If it is serious then tell someone
True or False: how you respond to stress depends on how you assess the stressor.
True
Making up for weaknesses in one area by excelling in another area
Compensation
A subconscious psychological response we use to protect our ego and threats to self esteem
Defense Mechanism
Name 2 ways to manage stress
exercise, spend time with others, listen to music, journal, manage time, don't procrastinate
physiological and psychological response that occurs when the mind and body encounter stressful or unfamiliar situations
Anxiety
According to Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, this basic need must be met before any other.
Physical needs - food, water, sleep
Behaving in a way opposite to the way you feel
Reaction Formation