Mental and Emotional Health

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Mental and Emotional Health

• Unit 2
• Lessons 5, 8, 9, 10, 11

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Communication Skills
I-message expresses your feelings or thoughts on
a subject. You-message is a statement that
blames or shames another person.
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Listening Skills
Active listening is the way you respond in
conversation to show that you hear and understand
what the speaker is saying.
Active listening includes clarifying, restating,
summarizing, or affirming what was said.
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Good Character

• Values your standard or belief
• Self-control regulates own behavior
• Compassion
• Good citizenship
• Fairness
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Trustworthiness
• Honesty

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Self-Respect

• Pay attention to your appearance
• Responsible actions
• Time for yourself
• Support others/Care about them
• Family time vs. Friend time

The willingness to accept responsibility for
one's own life is the source from which
self-respect springs.  Joan Didion
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Self-Esteem

• A persons belief about his or her worth.
• Positive self-esteem is a persons belief that he
  or she is worthy and deserves respect.
• A persons belief that he or she is not worthy
  and does not deserve respect is negative
  self-esteem

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Environment

• Positive social-emotional exists when you receive
  plenty of social-emotional boosters.
• Negative social-emotional environment exists when
  you experience too many social-emotional
  pollutants.

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What Determines Your Personality?

• Heredity
• Environment
• Attitudes
• Behaviors

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Personality Test!!!!!!!!!!
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How You Focus Your Energy

• Extroverted You are energized by people and
  things.
• Introverted You are energized by ideas and
  images.

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How You Gather Information

• Sensing You trust tangible information that you
  gather from your senses.
• Intuitive You give more weight to information
  from your insight and imagination.

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How You Make Decisions

• Thinking You base your decisions on objective
  principles and facts.
• Feeling You trust your gut and weigh decisions
  against people issues and concerns.

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How You Get Work Done

• Judging Your approach to doing things is
  structured and organized.
• Perceiving Your approach to doing things is
  flexible . You adapt as you do things and prefer
  open-ended deadlines.

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Making Decisions

• Describe the situation that requires a decision.
• List all possible decisions.
• Evaluate outcomes of those decisions
• Decide and Act
• Review your decisions

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Addictions - Compelling desire to engage in a
situation

• Drugs
• Exercise
• Gambling
• Nicotine
• Perfectionism
• Relationship
• Shopping
• TV / computer
• Work
• Thrills

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Mental Disorders

• Anxiety Real or imagined fears prevent a person
  from enjoying life.
• Obsessive Compulsive persistent, unwelcome
  thoughts or images and engages in certain
  rituals.
• Panic feelings of terror strike suddenly and
  repeatedly.
• Phobia excessive fear of certain things
• Depressionlong lasting hopelessness
• Seasonal Affective Disordertype of depression,
  reduced sunlight

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Mental Disorders

• Post-Traumatic Stress after effects of a
  terrifying event.
• Dementia brain deteriorates in function.
• Eating starve or binge
• Clinical Depression feelings of hopelessness,
  sadness
• Bipolar extreme happiness to extreme sadness
• Schizophrenia breakdown in the logical thought
  process
• Hypochondriamisinterpret aches and pains

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Mental Health Treatment

• Formal Intervention
• Evaluation
• Psychiatrist med
• Psychologistno med
• Medication
• Treatment Centers
• Therapy
• Support Groups

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• Anger is the feeling of being irritated or
  annoyed.

• An anger trigger is a thought or event that
  causes a person to become angry.
• An anger cue is a body change that occurs when a
  person is angry.

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• Hidden anger Not
• recognized, expressed
• inappropriate ways
• Hostility Chronic state of anger
• Projection Blaming others for actions or events
• Displacement Release of anger on someone or
  something that isnt cause of anger.

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Serotonin

• Chemical that is involved in controlling states
  of consciousness and mood.
• Lowered brain serotonin levels increases
  aggressiveness

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• Self Statement
• Use I messages
• Write a Letter
• Write in Journal
• Physical Activity
• Breathe Deeply
• Talk to Someone
• Rehearse Bad Situation

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• Stress Response of the body to the demands of
  daily living. (physical mental)
• Stressor Cause or source of stress
• Eustress Good stress
• Distress Bad stress

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Emotional Signs of Stress

• Aggressive Behavior
• Irritability
• Nervous Laughter
• Trouble Sleeping
• Eating

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Physical Signs of Stress

• Pounding Heart
• Trembling
• Grinding Teeth
• Dry Mouth
• Perspiration
• Aches in Back/neck

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General Adaptation Syndrome

• Alarm Stage Body ready for quick action,
  adrenaline is secreted into bloodstream.
• Resistance Stage Body attempts to regain
  internal balance
• Exhaustion Stage Wear and tear on the body
  increase, risk injury, illness

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Two Types of Stressors

• External
• Internal

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External Stressors

• Physical Environment
• Social Interaction
• Organisational
• Major Life Events
• Daily Hassles

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Physical Environment

• Noise
• Bright Lights
• Heat
• Confined Spaces

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Social Interaction

• Rudeness
• Bossiness
• Aggressiveness by Others
• Bullying

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Organisational

• Rules
• Regulations
• Red - Tape
• Deadlines

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Major Life Events

• Birth
• Death
• Lost job
• Promotion
• Marital Status Change

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Daily Hassles

• Commuting to School
• Misplaced Homework
• Mechanical breakdowns

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Internal Stressors

• Lifestyle Choices
• Negative Self - Talk
• Mind Traps
• Personality Traits

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Lifestyle Choices

• Caffeine
• Lack of Sleep
• Overloaded Schedule
• Sports
• Partying

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Negative Self Talk

• Pessimistic Thinking
• Self Criticism
• Over Analysing

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Mind Traps

• Unrealistic Expectations
• Taking Things Personally
• All or Nothing Thinking
• Exaggeration
• Rigid Thinking

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• It is a normal reaction to feel angry or
  depressed while trying to adjust to a life
  crisis.

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Types

• Minor depression is a mood disorder accompanied
  by feelings of hopelessness, sadness, or
  helplessness.

• Dysthymic disorder is a long-lasting form of
  depression.
• Major depression is a mood disorder accompanied
  by long-lasting feelings of hopelessness,
  sadness, or helplessness.

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Symptoms Used to Diagnose Depression

• The American Psychiatric Association uses these
  symptoms to diagnose depression

• deep sadness
• apathy
• fatigue
• agitation
• sleep disturbances
• weight or appetite changes

• lack of concentration
• feelings of worthlessness
• morbid thoughts

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What Causes Depression

• Inability to cope with a life crisis 
• Changes in brain structure
• Genetic predisposition the inheritance of genes
  that increase the likelihood of developing a
  condition.
• Low serotonin levels
• Traumatic family events
• Physical illness and disorders
• Alcohol and other drug use

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Coping With Depression

• Talk to Someone
• Treatment
• Avoid Drugs/Alcohol
• Stay Social
• Practice Self-management Skills
• Resiliency is the ability to adjust, recover,
  bounce back, and learn from difficult times.

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Suicide

• Suicide is the intentional taking of ones own
  life.

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• Para-suicide is a suicide attempt in which a
  person does not intend to die.

• Parasuicide is a cry for help.
• Some teens who make a suicide attempt and do not
  intend to die are not found in time, and their
  attempts end in death.
• Without help, teens who have attempted suicide
  once might attempt suicide again.

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• Cluster suicides are a series of suicides
  occurring within a short period of time and
  involving people who are connected in some way.

• If you know someone who has committed suicide,
  talk to your parents, a guardian, a school
  counselor, or another trusted adult.
• Do not copy this persons mistake.

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Suicidal Tendencies

• Abuse of alcohol/drugs
• Death of loved one
• Feelings of alienation/rejection
• Coping with body changes and sexuality
• Depression
• Impulsive/Aggressive behavior
• Mental disorder

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Signs of Suicide

• Direct statements
• Indirect statements
• Changed personality
• Withdrawing
• Appearance

• Giving away possessions
• Change in schoolwork
• Use alcohol/drugs
• Preoccupied with death

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Suicide Prevention Strategies

• Look for warning signs
• Listen without giving advice
• Take suicide threat seriously
• Ask if have a plan/ follow through
• Do not swear to secrecy
• Get an adult involved
• Stay with them until help arrives

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80 of all modern diseases have their origins in
stress.