Anxiety/Stress
A state of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation.
What is Stress?
Feeling hopeless or empty. Irritable or annoyed mood. Loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities. Loss of interest in, or conflict with, family and friends. Low self-esteem.
What is Symptoms of Depression?
A serious mental illness that can cause individuals to limit how much they eat or drink. They may develop “rules” around what they feel they can and cannot eat, as well as things like when and where they’ll eat.
What is Anorexia?
Wash and clean over and over. Erase, rewrite, or start over a lot. Repeat words, phrases, or questions. Check and re-check if something is closed, locked, clean, right, or finished.
What is Symptoms of OCD?
Stress Awareness Month
What is April?
Might cause you to sweat, feel tense, and have a rapid heartbeat.
What is Anxiety?
Often associated with depression.
What is Suicide?
A serious mental illness where people eat very large quantities of food without feeling like they’re in control of what they’re doing.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
Thoughts that cause anxiety.
What is Obsessions?
Depression Awareness Month
What is October?
“Fight, flight, or freeze mode”
PTSD
Can cause stress and anxiety
What is Trauma?
Number to call during mental health and substance use emergencies.
What is a Suicide Hotline?
Caught in a cycle of eating large quantities of food (called bingeing), and then trying to compensate for that overeating by vomiting, taking laxatives, fasting, or exercising excessively (called purging).
What is Bulimia?
Behaviors people with OCD feel a strong urge to do. They are also called rituals.
What is Compulsions?
PTSD Awareness Month
June
Feeling like you have to do things like take drugs or drink alcohol to fit in. Can cause stress and anxiety.
What is Peer Pressure?
A collection of physical and emotional symptoms that start a week or so before your period. Can also make people feel depressed in the weeks leading up to their period.
What is Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)?
An unhealthy obsession with eating “pure” food. Someone using food in this way might feel extremely anxious or guilty if they eat food they feel is unhealthy.
What is Orthorexia?
Cognitive behavioral therapy
What is helps people get past the cycle of OCD?
Suicide Awareness Month
What is September?
A healthy way to cope with anxiety. Name three things you can see, three things you can hear, and move three body parts.
What is the 333 rule?
A medical condition that many women get after having a baby.
What is Postpartum Depression?
A feeding disorder in which someone eats non-food substances that have no nutritional value, such as paper, soap, paint, chalk, or ice.
What is Pica Disorder?
Instead of stopping OCD, the rituals keep it going.
What is the stressful OCD cycle?
Mental Health Awareness Month
What is May?