Health Conditions
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 Health
The focusing of attention brings about a feeling of calm and heightened energy and awareness (mostly done sitting down).
Meditation
Excessive sadness is the natural emotional response to the loss of someone close to you.
Grief
Kyra's mom has noticed that she needs everything to be perfect, excessively washing her hands, and worrying about the patterns of what she does. What condition does Kyra have?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
True or False: The correct way to do deep breathing is to breathe in through your mouth and out through your nose.
False. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.
A sudden feeling of acute and disabling anxiety; intense fear or anxiety along with physical symptoms.
Panic Attack
Positively loaded phrases, or statements that are used to challenge unhelpful or negative thoughts. They can be used to motivate you, encourage positive thoughts, or boost self-esteem.
Positive Affirmations
The powerful emotion of feeling anxious, petrified, shaky, terrified, etc.
Fear
Before getting on the rollercoaster, Jayla started to feel lightheaded, dizzy, heightned vigilance for danger, shaking, sweating, and a sudden fear of dying. What is Jayla experiencing?
A Panic Attack
Which of the following is NOT a healthy coping skill? A: Exercising, B: Meditating, C: Shopping, D: Listening to Music
C (shopping): Excessive spending and other impulsive behaviors can temporarily distract individuals from their problems but often lead to negative consequences and increased stress in the long run.
This disorder is associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs.
Bipolar Disorder
Writing down your thoughts and feelings to understand them more clearly.
Journaling
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
Anxiety
When Diana woke up, at first she was feeling sad, hopeless, and irritable about starting her day. Soon after Diana took a shower and got herself together she started to feel happy, optimistic, and had a postive feeling about her day. What condition does Diana have?
Bipolar Disorder
True or False: If you do them correctly, your coping skills will work for you 100% of the time.
False Anything that changes our thoughts, emotions, or situations can change the way our coping skills work, and they may not be as effective as they used to be.
When depression is daily, characterized by persistent sadness, despair, and hopelessness.
Major Depressive Disorder
Changing negative or intrusive thoughts into more positive or neutral ones.
Cognitive Reframing
A feeling of revulsion or strong disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive.
Disgust
Emma has active delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and trouble with thinking. This causes Emma to have absolutely no interest for anything in life, and struggle with guilt, insomnia, and heavy irritability everyday. What two conditions are Emma struggling with?
Schizophrenia and Major Depressive Disorder
True or False: When you are feeling overwhelmed, mental health experts recommend using social media to help you disconnect and take your mind off stressful situations.
False. Multiple studies have found a strong link between social media use and an increased risk for depression, anxiety, loneliness, self-harm, and even suicidal thoughts.
Symptoms of this disorder include excessive washing or cleaning, repeated checking, extreme hoarding, aversion to particular numbers, etc.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
True or False: Physical activities such as walks, going to the gym, connecting with friends, or finding a hobby all improve mental health.
True. Taking your mind off of negative things and connecting with the real world or things outside of your bubble helps with keeping an open mind and giving you a different perspective on life.
The thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, concern, and overyly excessive possesiveness over something.
Jealousy
Eliana has lost almost all of her friends because she feels disconnected from herself and has problems with handling intense emotions. This is because her friends don't know she has hallucinations when handing out with them and fear that they will judge her for it. She also gets mad at them for making mistakes and doing things that are out of the ordinary for her. List the mental conditions that Eliana is struggling with.
Dissociative Disorder, Schizophrenia, and OCD.
Vaping, smoking, or drinking in any form increases or decreases depression and anxiety symptoms.
Increases. Vaping, smoking, or drinking in any form NEVER HELPS!