Mental and emotional health unit study guide

Physical

Excersise

Mental

I can handle stress

Emotional

I know how to identify my feelings

Ethical

I recognize right vs. wrong

Social

I can make friends

Describe the reward circuit of the brain

It releases dopamine with rewards, it's in charge of desire, craving, pleasure, and memory

Describe prefrontal cortex

It's the thoughtful, logical, and reasoning part of the brain

Describe a normal reward circuit

A normal reward circuit is the impulsive/emotional area, that releases dopamine

What psychological needs would a person try to take care of naturally

1. Physiological needs

2. Safety needs

3. Long belongings

4. Esteem

5. Self actualization

When you have an addiction, what do you think about the substance you are using

It makes you high and numb

Clean pain

Helps you heal

Helpful thoughts

This is hard, I would not have chosen this, but I can do hard things

Dirty pain

No healing

Unhelpful thoughts

I'm a bad person

Physical stressor

Basic needs not meet

Environmental stressor

Things in your surroundings

Personal behavior

Consequences to the decisions you make

Life situation stressor

Events that happen in your life out of your control

Distress

Negative impact

Eustress

Positive impact

Denial

Deep sense of shock

Anger

Your angry at the world

Bargaining

You look for others to tell you it's not real

Depression

Deep sadness

Acceptance

You recognize and process

Three signs of Anorexia Nervosa

Very thin, may have food rituals, extreme fear of weight gain

4 signs of Bulimia Nervosa

Disappears after meals, rough skin on knuckles, set in a cycle of binging and purging, uses laxatives to speed up bowel movements

3 possible warning signs of suicidal person

Isolation, not caring about life, giving away items

How can you reduce social media

Be yourself

Name one way you can prevent cyber bullying

Tell friends to stop