Self-Care
Coping Skills
Depression
Anxiety
Psychotropic Medications
100

What is self-care?

Activities that you can do to promote overall well-being

100

What are coping skills? 

The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.

100

What is depression?

 constant feeling of sadness and loss of interest, which stops you doing your normal activities

100

What is anxiety?

Intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Fast heart rate, rapid breathing, sweating, and feeling tired may occur.

100

What are psychotropic medications? 

medications are used to treat mental health disorders.

200

What is required from you to practice self-care? 

Learning how to put yourself first

200

Give me an example of a time that you used coping skills and tell me how it turned out in the end.

Give an example and the results of using the coping skill

200

What can cause someone to be depressed? 

upsetting or stressful life event, such as bereavement, divorce, illness, redundancy and job or money worries, can be the cause

200

What are some symptoms of anxiety? 

  • trouble concentrating or making decisions.
  • feeling irritable, tense or restless.
  • experiencing nausea or abdominal distress.
  • having heart palpitations.
  • sweating, trembling or shaking.
  • trouble sleeping.
  • having a sense of impending danger, panic or doom.
200

Why is it important to use psychotropic medications? 

Helps to reduce the intensity of symptoms. 


IT DOES NOT COMPLETELY MAKE YOUR SYMPTOMS GO AWAY

300

Why is self-care so important?

Promote positive effects on mental and physical well-being

300

Why are coping skills important? 

help you tolerate, minimize, and deal with stressful situations in life

300

Tell me a time when you were depressed and what caused you to be depressed? 

Tell your story and the reason
300

True/False: A person with panic disorder may feel terror even if there is no real danger 

True

300

True/False: People should only use psychotropic medication only to treat their mental health conditions

False- Everyone should use a combination of therapy and coping skills with their medication to get the best results. 

400

Give me an example of how you practice self-care and tell me how it makes you feel. 

Any example of self-care with a feeling

400

List some examples of coping skills

Deep breathing, talking to your support system, self-care, exercising, listening to music, dancing, STOP, leaving a negative situation

400

What are the 3 Cs of Depression?

Catch it, Check it, Change it

400

What are some coping skills to address symptoms of anxiety? 

Relaxation techniques, yoga, meditation, deep breathing, stress management and exercise

400

What is the definition of side effects of psychotropic medications? 

a secondary, typically undesirable effect of a drug

500

What are five different types of self-care? 

physical, social, mental, spiritual and emotional

500

What are the 4 As of coping? 

avoid, alter, adapt or accept

500

How can someone use the 3 Cs (Catch it, Check it, Change it) to change or decreased their depressive moods? 

Catch it- Identify the thought that came before the emotion

Check it- Reflect on how accurate or useful the thought is

Change it-Change the thought to a more accurate or helpful one as needed

Catch it- "I am stupid cause I failed the test"

Check it- I have passed tests in the past.  

Change it- My thought is not accurate, because I am not stupid for failing this one test it means that I need to either study more or ask for help in this subject

500

Tell me a time when you were anxious and ways that you coped with it. 

Give an example and coping skill

500

What are some reasons people have a hard time with taking psychotropic medications? 

Fear, Cost, Misunderstanding, Culture, Spiritual beliefs, Too many medications, fear of side effects, fear of what others judgement, Lack of symptoms, Mistrust, Worry and depression