Mental Health Awareness

Once you have a mental illness, you have it for life.

• In many cases, yes.

• Yes

• No

• I'm not sure

Females are more likely to have a mental illness than males.

• They are pretty equally affected.

• Yes

• No

• Not sure

Medicine is the best way to treat mental illness.

• Yes

• No

• Medicine can help to manage it but it is not the only way.

• Not sure

People with a mental illness are usually violent and dangerous.

• No, that's part of the stigma and it's not good to think that.

• Yes

• Of course

• Not sure

Adults are more likely then teens to have a mental illness.

• No

• Yes; many mental illnesses begin to appear in teens and early adulthood.

• No

• Not sure

People with a mental illness are generally quiet and shy.

Pick the best answer.

• Yes

• No

• Not sure

• This answer comes from a stigma and is not correct.

Mental illness only happens to certain kinds of people.

• Yes

• No

• It can happen to anyone.

• I'm not sure

Most people will never be effected by a mental illness.

Pick the best answer.

• No

• Yes

• Not sure

• You can be effected by a mental illness without being mentally ill yourself.

Bermuda does have mentally ill people.

• Yes, there are mentally ill people in Bermuda.

• No

• Yes, but no children in Bermuda are mentally ill.

• Yes, but they are all at Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute.

People with mental illness don't have any feelings so you can tease them and make fun of them.

• Yes

• No they do have feelings and get hurt when you tease them.

• No, you can make jokes about them.

• No, it's not ok to tease them or make jokes about them.