Understanding Mental and Emotional Health

1. When mental health conditions interfere with a person’s daily function for a short amount of time, they are known as mental distress.

• A. True
• B. False

2. When you are aware of your emotions, you have emotional awareness.

• A. True
• B. False

3. People who are skilled at understanding, controlling, and expressing their emotions and sensing the emotions of others have low emotional intelligence.

• A. True
• B. False

4. Stress that causes negative feelings and harmful health effects is called eustress.

• A.. True
• B. False

5. Generally, the body’s response to stress progresses through the following three stages: alarm stage, resistance stage, and exhaustion stage.

• A. True
• B. False

6. A person’s psychological identity is a combination of values, beliefs, and attitudes, which often change throughout life.

• A. True
• B. False

7. Your self-esteem is your mental picture of yourself, while your self-image is how you feel about yourself.

• A. True
• B. False

8. Your emotions are the moods or feelings you experience, which reveal to you how you feel about certain events or situations.

• A. True
• B. False

9. Understanding your emotions is always easy and it’s simple to identify what you are feeling.

• A.. True
• B. False

10. Thinking about events or factors that might have triggered how you are feeling is important to help you determine the actual emotion you are experiencing and why.

• A. True
• B. False