Maintenance/Prevention
This is who should prioritize mental health.
What is everyone?
Mental Illness can change the way people _________.
Think, feel, and/or act.
This is the number for the suicide and crisis lifeline.
What is 988?
True or false: Only policy makers have the influence to change public perspective and legislature regarding mental health.
What is false?
This is a way that mental illness can be treated through talking, thinking, or changing behaviors, thoughts, emotions, or stimuli.
What is therapy?
This is the percentage of adults who did not seek treatment for mental illness in 2022.
What is half (50%)?
Feeling sad for two or more weeks, hearing or believing things that aren’t real, and trying to harm oneself are all examples of _______.
Warning signs that someone may benefit from mental health support.
This is someone at your school who you can go to if you need help.
Who is my school counselor, social worker, nurse, teacher, or trusted adult.
This is a way that I can help a friend journeying through mental illness.
What is starting the conversation, offering support, encouraging them, sharing resources and education, and checking in with them regularly.
These are chemical compounds used to treat mental illness?
This is an example of positive coping strategies.
What is getting appropriate sleep, writing/journaling, listening to music, exercising, eating a healthy diet, and healthy socialization?
This is a warning sign that someone may need immediate help.
What is talking, writing, or drawing about death; feeling hopeless, desperate, or trapped; giving away possessions; behaving recklessly; talking about not being here tomorrow, being a burden on others, or having no reason to live.
The number for a free, confidential network that refers people to other possible health services around North Carolina.
What is 211?
This is what I can do if a friend needs immediate help.
What is asking about it, not leaving them alone, telling an adult, calling or texting 988, or going to the hospital.
This is the main goal of therapy.
What is to gain relief from symptoms, maintain or enhance daily functioning, and improve quality of life.
This is one of the biggest reasons people refrain from openenly talking about mental illnesses.
What is stigma?
This is a reason why many mental illness may occur.
What are Gene-environment interactions?
This is the most prevalent reason why people do not seek to get help if they are struggling with mental illness.
What is cost?
The importance of working to reduce the stigma around mental health and illnesses can be explained by...
What is more understanding and acceptance in society, so people feel safe to get help, prevent judgment.
CAPS, Dean of Student Affairs, Heels Care Network
___ is the most commonly used substance in the US, excessively taking this substance could negatively impact ___.
What is alcohol and mental health?
This ratio is how many US adults experience mental illness each year.
What is one in five?
This resource is the main guideline for professionals who treat mental health and brain-related conditions.
What is the DSM 5?
This is a way to fight mental health stigma.
What is talking, educating, using sensitive language, encouraging equality between physical and mental health, showing compassion, expressing empowerment over shame, being honest about treatment, calling out stigma, and avoiding self-stigma?
How do you approach somebody about receiving mental health treatment?
Ease into the conversation, gradually. It may be that the person is not in a place to talk, and that is OK. Greeting them and extending a gentle kindness can go a long way. Sometimes less is more. Reduce any defensiveness by sharing your feelings and looking for common ground.