Mental Health

Being healthy includes...

• having a body that feels good and works well

• having a healthy mind

• not being sick

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

True or false? Mental illnesses only affect adults.

• True

• False

Mental illnesses affect the way a person...

• behaves

• thinks

• feels

What causes mental illness?

• diet

• catching it from someone else

• being violent

• no one knows

What does diagnosis mean?

• to have a feeling that you know something is wrong

• when your doctor gives you medicine

• when you meet with a mental health professional and he/she gives what you are feeling a name

• to be told you have a mental illness

What is the least effective way of dealing with a mental illness?

• keeping feelings inside

• telling an adult how you feel

• going to the hospital

• meeting with a mental health professional

True or false: People with illnesses will always be ill.

• True

• False

What is a stigma?

• labeling someone in a negative way

• saying bad things about a person

• making fun of a person

• making someone feel bad or different because they aren't like you