Diagnosis
Worry, racing thoughts, issues with sleeping, rapid breathing, heart palpitations, muscle tension, and restlessness.
What is Anxiety?
Events, situations, sounds, smells, or thoughts that can evoke a strong emotional response, often leading to mental health symptoms.
What is a trigger?
What is hospitalization?
A county specific agency that provides medication management, counseling, and case management services.
What is a community mental health agency?
(Southeast, North Central, North Community, Concord Counseling, Community for New Directions, Community Support Network, Behavioral Health Partners, etc.)
Detox, outpatient, residential and inpatient programs focused on addiction.
What is substance use treatment?
Sadness, lack of interest, appetite changes, fatigue, and hopelessness.
What is Depression?
Strategies used to manage difficult emotions, stress, and challenges in a way that promotes mental well-being.
What is a coping skill?
Psychiatric treatment in the form of an injection or pill to treat mental health symptoms.
What is medication?
How you learn about community-based Franklin County resources (homeless shelter, food pantries, clothing closets, legal services, etc.)
What is a Street Card?
Negative attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes surrounding mental illness, leading to discrimination and negative treatment for individuals with mental health conditions.
What is mental health stigma?
Eppisodes of irritable mood, increased energy or activity, elevated self-esteem, decreased need for sleep, increased talkativeness, easily distracted, and impulsive behaviors.
What is mania (or bipolar disorder)?
Concerning changes to mood, thoughts, and behavior.
What is a warning sign?
Talking with a mental health professional regularly to learn skills needed to manage mental illness/mental health symptoms.
What is therapy/counseling?
3 digit national crisis hotline
What is 9-8-8?
Situation, _____, emotion, behavior.
What is a thought?
Delusions (false beliefs), hallucinations (false perceptions), disorganized thinking, and flat affect.
What is Psychosis?
The proactive measures individuals take to maintain and improve their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
What is self-care?
A form of psychotherapy that focuses on modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts by interrogating and uprooting negative or irrational beliefs.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) ?
Name of the 24/7 walk-in crisis center in Frankin County.
What is RI international / Franklin County Crisis Center?
Name 2 grounding techniques.
- Holding ice
- 5-4-3-2-1 method
- Deep breathing
- Taking a mindful walk
- Imagining a safe place or a comforting scene
Nightmares, flashbacks, hypervigilance, avoiding behaviors, easily startled, feeling disconnected.
What is PTSD?
A person's understanding and acceptance of their mental illness, encompassing awareness of the illness, its symptoms, and the need for treatment.
What is insight?
A structured program of psychotherapy with a strong educational component designed to provide skills for managing intense emotions and negotiating social relationships.
What is DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) ?
A free drop-in recovery center for those working through mental illness, trauma, and addiction.
What is the Peer Center?
What is relapse prevention?
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