Module #3

Question 1

What is mental health?

Answer 1

Releasing the past and learning from mistakes, realistically looking as situations around you and making good decisions, and having a positive outlook for the future

Question 2

What are the only things that you can control?

Answer 2

Your attitude, the thoughts you admit into your mind and dwell on, and that action you will take

Question 3

What are some ways we can tell people are thinking or have consciousness?

Answer 3

By measuring brain waves on an EEG and by observing problem-solving, language, or creativity

Question 4

What is an extra measure of function that gives a person resiliency under _______?

Answer 4

Brain reserve; stress

Question 5

What nutrients does your brain need?

Answer 5

Omega-3 fatty acids, essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals.

Question 6

Your brain needs steady __________ _________ levels.

Answer 6

Blood glucose

Question 7

____ food should be avoided, but don’t ______ a meal

Answer 7

Junk; skip

Question 8

What things keep your brain functioning well?

Answer 8

Sleep, water, and appropriate exercise

Question 9

Prevent brain injury by wearing a protective _________ in activities with a risk of head injury and wear a ____ ____ when you travel in a car

Answer 9

Helmet; seat belt

Question 10

What is God the beginning or source of?

Answer 10

Wisdom when you make decisions

Question 11

What is the hallmark of mental health and maturity?

Answer 11

Making good decisions

Question 12

What do decisions always involve?

Answer 12

Risks

Question 13

What are two decision-making mistakes about the future?

Answer 13

When we allow fear or worry to make the decision and we delay doing a good work

Question 14

What are some necessities in decision making?

Answer 14

Taking enough time, thinking deeply enough, and not wasting the present moment.

Question 15

One way to make a decision is to list the ____ and ___ of each option you have

Answer 15

Pros; cons

Question 16

Cons are not a problem if you can answer yes to the question…

Answer 16

“Can I live with that?”

Question 17

What is it impossible to do?

Answer 17

Multitask because your brain cannot think deeply about more than one thing at a time

Question 18

What type of information has had the unintended consequence of people thinking ____ deeply?

Answer 18

Digital information; less

Question 19

What is the length of time a person can keep concentrating on one idea?

Answer 19

Attention span

Question 20

What is the thing that breaks attention?

Answer 20

Distractions

Question 21

A disability of attention is usually referred to by the initials ___ or ____

Answer 21

ADD; ADHD

Question 22

ADD or ADHD may be confused with what?

Answer 22

Childish behavior

Question 23

What 3 signs in a child point to possible autism?

Answer 23

(1) Delay in spoken language
(2) Will not make eye contact
(3) Will not return a smile

Question 24

What is decompensation?

Answer 24

The emotional release that occurs when stress becomes too much for a person to endure

Question 25

What is mental illness?

Answer 25

A medical condition in which the person loses the ability to care for himself

Question 26

What is mental illness NOT?

Answer 26

Sloppy thinking

Question 27

Major depression

Answer 27

*Depression* Dark, difficult state of mind that can lead to thoughts of taking one's own life

Question 28

Dysthymia

Answer 28

*Depression* Less intense but longer-lasting depression. Loss of interest in daily life. Critical, complaining, and gloomy

Question 29

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

Answer 29

*Depression* Depression every winter due to lack of sunlight. It is helped with the increase of serotonin

Question 30

What are anxiety disorders?

Answer 30

Feelings of terror a person has in situations that most people would not sense as threatening

Question 31

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Answer 31

*Anxiety disorder* Endlessly concerned about their obsessions and must perform rituals to find relief

Question 32

Panic disorder

Answer 32

*Anxiety disorder* Unexplainable terrified response to a normal situation; panic attack

Question 33

Past-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Answer 33

*Anxiety disorder* Persistent reliving of past trauma with all attached emotions.

Question 34

What is a phobia?

Answer 34

A debilitating fear of objects or situations that normally would not produce fear

Question 35

What is agoraphobia?

Answer 35

Fear of marketplace

Question 36

What is bipolar disorder?

Answer 36

Illness characterized by cycles of an intense high (mania) followed by a debilitating low (depression)

Question 37

Why to people with bipolar disorder have trouble staying on their medications?

Answer 37

Because during times of mania, they feel so good that they resist taking medications

Question 38

Why do people with borderline personality disorder have so few friends?

Answer 38

They have impulsive and unpredictable moods and behaviors that damage relationships

Question 39

What do self-harm behaviors express? Is this a normal thought, or does it need treatment?

Answer 39

Self-loathing and intense feelings of self-disapproval It is not normal and should be treated by a mental health professional

Question 40

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 40

It is a breakdown of normal thoughts. People with schizophrenia often have delusions (ideas that are not true) and/or hallucinations (believes he sees or hears things that aren't there)

Question 41

What are 4 signs in an older person that possible point to dementia?

Answer 41

(1) Loss of memory (2) Loss of attention (3) Loss of language (4) Loss of problem-solving

Question 42

What do people with anosognosia believe?

Answer 42

That they are not mentally ill. It is the primary reasons those with with mental illness don't get better

Question 43

Why is anosognosia such a problem for individuals with mental illness and their families

Answer 43

Many accuse their family members of betrayal; they think their family is lying to them about being mentally ill

Question 44

What is emotional health?

Answer 44

The state of being aware of how you feel and expressing it appropriately.

Question 45

What are emotions and what do they help you evaluate?

Answer 45

Emotions are sensitivities. They help you evaluate experiences

Question 46

What cannot be trust to make decisions?

Answer 46

Emotions

Question 47

The Wheel of Emotions places more intense emotion where?

Answer 47

In the center of the diagram

Question 48

It is wrong to ______________ with strong emotions

Answer 48

Manipulate

Question 49

How will relief from strong emotions come?

Answer 49

By facing the emotions instead of distracting ourselves; identifying them by name; and not making things worse with resentment, but forgiving the offender

Question 50

Forgiveness lets somebody off the hook, and you will find that person to be ___________

Answer 50

yourself

Question 51

What emotion should be treated and not ignored?

Answer 51

Shock and terror

Question 52

Ordinary grief can be expressed but should be ___________ in proportion to the size of the loss

Answer 52

Limited

Question 53

What does grief start with?

Answer 53

Shock

Question 54

When the grieving person needs someone to stand beside him, offer your __________, not your _____

Answer 54

Presence, words

Question 55

What should deep grief and ordinary grief be?

Answer 55

Limited

Question 56

Rumination

Answer 56

Thinking about something repeatedly without coming to a conclusion

Question 57

Choose to accept the seconds in life and be what?

Answer 57

Content

Question 58

What is the assurance that everything will be okay in the end?

Answer 58

Hope

Question 59

Hope is expressed by what?

Answer 59

Joy