Sigma, Empathy, and Coping Strategies

What is Stigma?

• A cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs that motivate the general public to fear, reject, avoid and discriminate.

• Belief about other people that are true.

• Positive Beliefs about other people.

• A group of negative thoughts that are true about a group of people.

Which of the following is a way to fight stigma?

• Watch your language

• Talk about mental illness openly and honestly

• Uplift the stories of people's lives with mental illness

• Push back against unfair media portrayals

• All of the above

Empathy is...

• The ability to have feelings
• The ability to understand the feelings of others

Which of the following is not apart of being empathetic

• Perspective Taking

• Removing Judgement

• Recognizing Emotion in Others

• Inability to vocalize emotions

True or False: Stress can cause biological responses in the body.

• True

• False

What is an impulsive behavior?

• A behavior that you spend time thinking about before you do it.

• A behavior that you do without thinking about it.

• A behavior that you think a little bit about before doing it.

True or False: A coping strategy is something you do to help you deal with stressors or situations in your life.

• True

• False

Select the behaviors that are considered impulsive behaviors.

• Binging

• Destruction of Property

• Escalating Problems

• Gossiping

True or False: Resilience is the ability to recover from a problem.

• True

• False

What is sympathy?

• Understanding someone's feelings.

• Ability to understand and share someone else's feelings.

• Ability to recover from problems.