Mental Health Facts
This is a component of health we all have, that exists on a spectrum.
What is mental health?
What are mental health conditions?
Doing this for yourself is not selfish, and is essential for well-being.
What is making time for rest, relaxation, and self-care practices?
Offices that provide training, programming, and resources on mental health and Well-Being for the BGSU community.
What is Recreation and Wellness, the Wellness Connection, and the Counseling Center?
The office on campus that provides counseling (individual, group, couples), alcohol and other drug prevention services, student assistance & advocacy, crisis intervention, and community intervention.
What is the Counseling Center?
the most common mental health conditions.
What are anxiety and depression?
The percentage of people that do not receive help for their mental health condition.
What is more than 50%? Stigma is one factor that impacts help-seeking for mental health problems.
Perceived barriers to self-care.
What is lack of time, and money, thinking it is selfish or indulgent, setting unrealistic expectations, are a few examples.
These furry friends visit campus to bring smiles and joy to students.
What are therapy dogs?
The Counseling Center hours.
What are Monday - Friday from 8 am - 5 pm. You can also utilize the Wood County Crisis Line at 419-502-4673 after Counseling Center business hours. Wood County Crisis Line is a 24 hours, 7 days a week crisis resource for folks in Wood County.
Number of adults in the United States that have a diagnosable mental illness
What is 1 in 5?
Factors that contribute to mental health stigma.
What is inaccurate representation in the media, and news? Also misinformation about mental health, or the belief it is a moral or character failing. Attitudes regarding mental health also vary for different cultures and identities.
Self-care activities (name at least three).
What is physical activity, journaling, listening to music, reading, art, and meditation.
In this program, participants gain skills in stress and anxiety management, handling difficult situations, building self-compassion and a non-judgmental attitude, and improving focus and memory.
What is the Focused Falcon Mindfulness Workshops? Two workshops are offered, Introduction to Mindfulness and Expanding your Mindfulness Practice. The next workshop starts on March 17th.
The world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) young people.
What is the Trevor Project? They provide LGBTQ youth with 24/7 crisis counseling via phone, text, and chat.
What are changes in eating habits, alcohol/drug use, sleep, and cleanliness, excessive worry and stress, feeling hopeless/helpless, withdrawing from friends and family, signs of self-harm, or talking about death or dying.
Ways to reduce mental health stigma.
Whare is educating yourself on mental health, becoming aware of your own biases, and treating people with dignity and respect are a few examples.
A practice of being in the present moment, without judgment.
What is mindfulness?
These are the #Move4YourMood classes.
What are Yoga as You Are (Mondays from 12:20 - 1 pm) and Beginner Strength Training (Wednesday from 12:10 - 12:50 pm)? Classes are offered as the Eppler South Gym.
The most common co-occurring issue to stress and anxiety among texters to the Crisis Text Line.
What are relationships? Crisis Text Line is here for any crisis. Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States, anytime. A live, trained Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds, all from our secure online platform.
These are methods to help manage our mental health.
What are social support, self-care practices, and professionals help such as therapy or medication?
The number of students at BGSU reporting they would not think less of someone who has received mental health treatment."
What is 96%? But, 47% of BGSU students believe their peers would think less of someone who has received mental health treatment.
The eight dimensions of wellness.
What are physical, social, environmental, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, occupational, and financial?
Topics covered in our self-care events.
What is self-compassion, managing stress, and anxiety, how to be your own yoga instructor, mindful eating and nutrition, and improving motivation?
The local organization that advocates, plans, develops, funds, manages and evaluates community-based mental health and addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery services to improve the quality of life for the citizens of Wood County.
The Wood County Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Services Board. All ADAMHS Board-funded agencies provide services to BGSU students.