Healthy Habits
This practice combines physical postures, breathing, and meditation, and has been shown to reduce anxiety and improve focus.
What is Yoga?
This term describes being aware of your thoughts, feelings, and surroundings in the present moment without judgment.
What is mindfulness?
This U of T service offers support for students with physical or mental health conditions that affect academic performance.
This is what you should do if you think someone might be in immediate danger or suicidal, what’s the first action you should take?
Stay with them and connect them to professional help / call emergency services.
This Pixar movie follows the emotions inside an 11-year-old’s mind.
What is Inside Out?
This is one simple activity that can boost endorphins and improve your mood.
What is exercise / laughing / dancing / physical activity?
This chemical, often called the “feel-good neurotransmitter,” is associated with pleasure and reward.
What is dopamine?
This U of T initiative trains students to provide supportive peer listening and connect others to resources.
What is the Peer Support Program?
This is the first thing one ought to do when supporting a friend who is going through a mental health challenge.
What is listening?
This music artist has spoken openly about anxiety and depression in songs like “1-800-273-8255,” named after a crisis helpline.
Logic
Writing down things you’re grateful for each day is an example of this positive psychology practice.
What is gratitude journalling?
Chronic stress triggers the release of this hormone, which, in high levels, can harm sleep and immune function.
This UofT resource facilitates access to support, services and accommodations for students, staff and faculty members who have experienced sexual violence or sexual harassment?
What is the Sexual Violence Prevention and Support Centre?
If your friend says, “I don’t want to talk about it,” this is a supportive response you could offer.
“That’s okay — just know I’m here when you’re ready.”
In Euphoria, (Zendaya's character) Rue’s storyline primarily deals with what mental health issue?
Substance Abuse
This is one reason alcohol is not a healthy coping mechanism for stress.
It numbs rather than solves problems, disrupts sleep, worsens anxiety, can lead to dependence.
This mental health condition involves persistent sadness and loss of interest in daily activities.
What is depression?
This 24/7 program connects U of T students to trained counsellors via phone or chat.
What is Telus Health Student Support?
If a friend of yours expresses the desire to physically harm themselves or another person, what should you do?
Contact Campus Safety/Emergency Services (911).
(In these situations, it’s important to do this even when the person you are concerned about is unwilling to access these resources themselves. Make sure to protect your own safety in the process.
Safety trumps privacy. There are certain situations where you will not be able to keep information confidential. When supporting someone with thoughts of suicide or intentions to harm themselves or others, it is important that you involve someone else who is in a position to intervene. Since you can’t guarantee secrecy, offer instead to treat what they share with you with sensitivity and discretion. This is most often what people are seeking when they ask about secrecy or privacy.)
In Good Will Hunting, the main character learns to process trauma with the help of what type of professional?
Therapist/counsellor
This technique, often used to reduce anxiety, involves breathing deeply into your diaphragm and exhaling slowly.
What is diaphragmatic breathing?
This therapy approach is a goal-oriented, evidence-based psychotherapy that helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors to improve their emotional well-being
What is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
The main Health & Wellness Centre on the St. George campus is located at this building.
What is 700 Bay Street, 12th and 14th floors?
In the scenario below, identify Ron's mistake.
Harry: "Hey man, I don’t really know how to say this, but I’ve been feeling completely drained lately. I can’t focus in lectures, I’m skipping readings, and even when I sleep, I wake up tired."
Ron: "You’re probably just burned out. You should try waking up earlier and making a to-do list. That always fixes things for me."
Offering advice.
In A Beautiful Mind, mathematician John Nash experiences hallucinations linked to this condition.
Schizophrenia