Understanding Mental Health

Question 1

refers to the maintenance of successful mental activity.

Answer 1

Mental health

Question 2

True or False

Mental health includes maintaining productive daily activities and maintaining fulfilling relationships with others.

It also includes maintaining the abilities to
adapt to change and to cope with stresses.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

can occur when the brain (or part of the brain) is not working well or is working in the wrong way.

Answer 3

Mental illness

Question 4

When the brain is not working properly, one or more of its 6 functions will be disrupted

Answer 4

1. Thinking
2. Perception
3. Emotion
4. Signaling
5. Physical
6. Behavior

Question 5

Symptoms of mental illness/mental disorder

Answer 5

1. Thinking difficulties or problems focusing attention
2. Extreme emotional highs and lows
3. Sleep problems

Question 6

True or False

The causes of mental illness are not complicated.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Genetics + Environment =

Answer 7

Brain disorder

Question 8

True or False

Mental illness is rarely if ever caused by stress alone

Answer 8

True

Question 9

True or False

Mental illness is the consequence of poor parenting or bad behavior

Answer 9

False

Mental illness has a lot of causes/factors and does not focus on a single symptom.

Question 10

True or False
Mental illness is not the result of personal weakness or deficits in personality.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True or False

Many mental illnesses begin during childhood and persist into adolescence.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

What mental illnesses begin during childhood and persist into adolescence?

Answer 12

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Question 13

What mental illnesses begin during adolescence?

Answer 13

Major Depression (MD)
Schizophrenia
Bipolar Disorder (BD)
Panic disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder
Eating Disorders
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Addictions