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Everyone Has It!
Everyone Has It!
You would seek help from a physician or a trainer for an injury, why wouldn't you go to a therapist and get help you need mentally?
You would seek help from a physician or a trainer for an injury, why wouldn't you go to a therapist and get help you need mentally?
Mental Health is how we cope with everyday life.
Mental Health is how we cope with everyday life.
Some days your might feel more confident or let things roll off your back more easily. On other days maybe the stress has you feeling sad or anxious. These are completely normal things to feel and normal ways to feel them. It's when the feelings get to be so overwhelming that they make living your normal, everyday life a challenge. When things like just getting out of bed, spending time with friends or doing your favorite activities becomes something you just can't do-that's when your mental health is becoming a problem, and possibly a mental illness.
Some days your might feel more confident or let things roll off your back more easily. On other days maybe the stress has you feeling sad or anxious. These are completely normal things to feel and normal ways to feel them. It's when the feelings get to be so overwhelming that they make living your normal, everyday life a challenge. When things like just getting out of bed, spending time with friends or doing your favorite activities becomes something you just can't do-that's when your mental health is becoming a problem, and possibly a mental illness.
Use the ideas and links below to develop a plan to encourage and motivate students to find help when they need it.
Use the ideas and links below to develop a plan to encourage and motivate students to find help when they need it.
March 2, 2024
March 2, 2024
Create and lead World Teen Mental Wellness Day activities that engage students on your campus
Create and lead World Teen Mental Wellness Day activities that engage students on your campus
Be creative! Develop a plan for your school:
Reduce the stigma surrounding mental health challenges and accessing care
Increase awareness about the mental health resources available to students within your school and communities
Encourage students to participate in wellness activities
Tips to Understand and How To Improve Mental Health
Tips to Understand and How To Improve Mental Health
The human mind is incredibly complex – and life gets challenging. Sometimes our minds and emotions get thrown off balance, leaving us feeling physically, mentally, and emotionally drained. Anxiety, depression, and rage are just a few ways we can react to circumstances that are often beyond our control.
If you’ve gone through a hard time or faced trauma, your mental health could suffer. Understanding mental illness, being aware of common symptoms, and having a plan for managing on tough days will help you grow and move forward.
Use these infographics to create your own video message for your school. See a great example from Gregori High HERE:
Use these infographics to create your own video message for your school. See a great example from Gregori High HERE:
What ARE Students Saying?
What ARE Students Saying?
About why they feel stressed?
About why they feel stressed?
- Worried about family issues (work & money)
- Anxious about returning to school
- Falling behind in school during distance learning
Bring Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre to your school !
Bring Kaiser Permanente Educational Theatre to your school !
Check out their free virtual mental health and wellness program.
Check out their free virtual mental health and wellness program.
Will a student’s bout of anxiety allow others to create a safe space to talk about what they’re going through and what’s really going on? Ghosted is a candid glimpse of a single day in the life of 4 high school students as they learn to adapt to remote learning and struggle to connect with others while still social distancing. It’s an up-close look at how they navigate their relationships and support each other while facing harsh realities and many unknowns.
Through the course of the virtual program, students learn to:
Develop skills to talk about stress, anxiety, and depression and understand that all are common
Identify healthy coping strategies to build resilience
Access community resources for help with stressful and difficult situations
Combat stigma by creating a culture of acceptance and support for mental health
BC2M Talk Tool can help you start the conversation about mental health with people in your life.
BC2M Talk Tool can help you start the conversation about mental health with people in your life.
#BeKind21 KINDNESS Campaign
#BeKind21 KINDNESS Campaign
Now VIRTUAL, Send Silence Packing-Beyond the Backpacks stories contain personal accounts from individuals that have experienced suicidal ideation, attempted to end their life, or have lost a loved one to suicide.
These evidence-based resources can help teach club members the mental health skills they need to be more ready to learn. Five short videos can be viewed in various settings, and includes a Implementation Guide to reinforce the content and skills.
These evidence-based resources can help teach club members the mental health skills they need to be more ready to learn. Five short videos can be viewed in various settings, and includes a Implementation Guide to reinforce the content and skills.
If you or a loved one is seeking mental health treatment or additional information on mental health:
Visit NAMI.org or our Wellness
Call NAMI's HelpLine at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264) or text “HELPLINE” to 62640, open Mon-Fri from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
If you or a loved one is experiencing a crisis, please call or text 988, available 24/7
Join Mental Health America as we have open conversations about mental health. We're a group of people who want to change the way our communities talk about mental health. On this podcast, we share our lives, fight in the open, and work together to just figure things out.
Each week, America and Theresa (and sometimes special guests) discuss a different mental health topic. The topics come from questions Mental Health America hears from people with lived experience with mental illness. Many of them come from questions asked by people who have taken mental health screens. The conversations are easily accessible to people who are just beginning to learn about their mental health.
Download the Game!
Download the Game!
SUPERCHARGE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH SKILLS
SUPERCHARGE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH SKILLS
EQUOO teaches psychological skills in a fun and captivating way. The instructional and inspirational game designed to support good mental health and emotional fitness. An avatar named Dr. Joy accompanies individuals through fictional stories that offer practical insights into how people think, feel, and act.
Looking for a way to encourage everyone to stress less and laugh more?
Looking for a way to encourage everyone to stress less and laugh more?
Active Minds has compiled ideas and educational resources for planning a day or week of activities for all of those anxiety-inducing times of the year — such as finals week or holiday shopping season or anytime.
Check out these ideas for hosting your own Stress Less Week®!
Check out these ideas for hosting your own Stress Less Week®!
Complete the form HERE, and after you press “submit” you’ll see a download button. Clicking that will download a resource kit (PDF) to your device.
What's Up? App
What's Up? App
What’s Up is an amazing free app that uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and more. Use the positive and negative habit tracker to maintain your good habits, and break those that are counterproductive. We particularly love the “Get Grounded” page, which contains over 100 different questions to pinpoint what you’re feeling, and the “Thinking Patterns” page, which teaches you how to stop negative internal monologues. Try it out for yourself. (Free; iOS and Android)
Saying the right thing to someone struggling with mental illness can be incredibly powerful. It can support, comfort, encourage and sometimes even save a life. The problem is finding the words. Too many people don’t know what to say to us, so they say nothing at all. Silence can make us feel hopeless, sad and alone.
Even as a young child, I’ve always felt that I was different from everyone else. I felt that no matter where I turned, I never truly fit in. This caused me to have an identity crisis... Throughout the years, I desperately wanted to know what exactly was “wrong with me” and was determined to figure it out. I still remember thinking: If only I knew the problem, I could finally “fix” myself.. Read more...
What the Stats Say...
What the Stats Say...
30% - Suicide rates have increased by nearly 30 percent across all age groups in the last two decades. (CDC)
30% - Suicide rates have increased by nearly 30 percent across all age groups in the last two decades. (CDC)
20% - As many as one in five children between ages 3 and 17 have a diagnosable mental, emotional or behavioral disorder. (CDC)
20% - As many as one in five children between ages 3 and 17 have a diagnosable mental, emotional or behavioral disorder. (CDC)
75% - In 75 percent of all lifetime cases, the onset of mental illness happens by age 24. (NAMI)
75% - In 75 percent of all lifetime cases, the onset of mental illness happens by age 24. (NAMI)
70% - 70 percent of youth in state and local juvenile justice systems have a mental illness. (NAMI)
70% - 70 percent of youth in state and local juvenile justice systems have a mental illness. (NAMI)
Use this Lesson Plan to begin a discussion about mental health with your Club members. Students will
Differentiate between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors;
Identify how thoughts and emotions can impact behavior choices
Identify strategies for making positive behavior choices when experiencing a strong emotion;
Understand how empathy impacts everyday relationships
Myths.Facts.pptxThe presentation can be used by NCHS Clubs for social media presentation or student activity. Check out Activity #1 in the March NCHS Activity Guide to develop a plan. Find more Facts and Myths and HERE use them to expand the presentation.
The presentation can be used by NCHS Clubs for social media presentation or student activity. Check out Activity #1 in the March NCHS Activity Guide to develop a plan. Find more Facts and Myths and HERE use them to expand the presentation.
The stigma associated with mental illness is now called “sanism.” Just like racism or sexism, it is a form of oppression and discrimination. And there is a lot of sanism and misinformation surrounding mental illness still present within our society.
It’s up to us, the mental health community, to educate others and set the record straight. Here are some of the common misconceptions people make and what you need to know.
Time to Change was a decade long campaign to change the way people think and act about mental health problems. The social movement ended in 2021, and impacted millions of people’s attitudes toward mental health. Use these tried and tested sessions, activities, toolkits, training programmes and films with students and staff, to help this generation become more open about mental health than any before.
Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all connected. What we think can affect how we feel and act. And what we do can affect how we think and feel. Changing one can help change the others. These videos with accompanying comic book teach more about the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Take Action for Mental Health campaign is designed to help you check in, learn more, and get support for your own mental health or the mental health of someone you care about. Their Mental Health Matters Toolkit provides oodles of activities to amp up your May is Mental Health Matters Awareness Activities
You might feel scared, confused, overwhelmed, angry, alone, grateful, or completely calm. You might feel many things throughout the days or all at once, like being upset that an event was cancelled, but happy that you can wear pajamas all day.
Your feelings are normal; the situation is not. Don't forget to breathe.
This Virtual Calming Room is a place for students, families and staff to find tools and strategies for managing emotions and feelings and building our resilience during this pandemic .
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