Mental Health
This 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.
What class of medication is commonly used to treat anxiety and has a high risk for habit-forming tendencies? provide an example.
Benzodiazepines; Valium, xanax, librium, ativan, klonopin.
What is your favorite form of self-care?
Anything positive goes :)
These can be used by a person to reduce stress, manage emotions, and improve our mental wellness.
Coping Skills
This daytime talk show host and voice of an animated forgetful fish has opened up about her struggles with depression.
Ellen DeGeneres
This is a serious mental health condition that affects how people think, feel and behave. It may result in a mix of hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking and behavior
Schizophrenia
These 2 medications are often used for opioid dependence
What are Methadone and Suboxone?
Name 3 people you can go talk to about an increase in psychiatric symptoms.
Psychiatrist, primary care physician, social worker, counselor/therapist, trusted family member or friend.
This type of meditation is focused on tensing and releasing different parts of your body.
Progressive muscle relaxation
This Olympic swimmer was diagnosed with ADHD at 9 years old, making it hard for him to concentrate in school.
Michael Phelps
A sudden, overpowering fright response or feeling or terror for no known reason. Often mistaken for a heart attack.
What is a Panic Attack?
Dry mouth is a common side effect of antidepressants. What is recommended to alleviate this symptom?
Chew sugarless gum or candy, adequate hydration, artificial saliva.
What month is mental health awareness month?
May
This is a simple technique that is used to managing emotions, also known as "diaphragmatic breathing", in which you take slow deep intention breaths.
Deep Breathing
This classical composer was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, characterized by extreme highs and extreme lows.
Beethoven
a disorder marked by uncontrollable and recurring thoughts, repetitive and excessive behaviors, or both. Symptoms can begin any time but usually start between late childhood and young adulthood.
Provide an example of an SSRI.
Where was the first psychiatric hospital in America? (Called 'Eastern state Hospital' and founded in 1773)
Williamsburg, Virgina
Expressing good things from your day/life is a coping strategy known as:
Gratitude
This actor/comment passed away in 2014 due to mental health issues.
Robin Williams
This personality disorder makes people experience extreme mood swings, unstable relationships, and trouble controlling their emotions, which can lead to a higher risk of suicide and self-destructive behavior. The condition is marked by impulsivity and an unhealthy way of seeing themselves and others, making it difficult to function in everyday life.
Borderline Personality disorder
This medication is classified as a mood stabilizer, requiring monitoring of blood levels and close awareness of fluid/electrolyte intake & output
Lithium
1 in how many adults in the US experience symptoms of mental illness each year?
1 in 5 (20%)
Describe the "5 senses" coping strategy.
A technique in which you describe 5 things you can see, 4 things you can hear, 3 things you can feel, 2 things you can smell, and 1 thing you can taste.
This singer/actress opened up about her struggles with addiction, bipolar disorder, and her eating disorder. She starred in a Disney movie with the Jonas Brothers in 2008.
Demi Lovato