1. Managing Emotional and Mental Health

2. I. Emotions
A) Mental Health: the way people think about and
respond to events in their daily lives
Dealing with confusing feelings in healthy ways is a
large part of mental health. Emotions play a major
role in a person’s mental health

3. B) An Emotional Brain
1) An emotion is a feeling produced in response to a life event.
Each emotion is related to a specific set of feelings and behaviors.
Example: When you are scared or afraid you respond with the
emotion of fear. Your brain might think of how to escape the
situation. Your may experience body changes such as increased
heart rate and breathing rate, sweating , fainting, screaming or
running away.

4. C) Emotional Health
Is the way a person experiences and deals with
feelings. Anger , jealousy, sadness are natural
emotions but how you express them in a nondestructive way or chose not to express them or
cope with them is emotional health.

5. D)Teens and Emotions
> Both social and physical changes affect teens’ emotions.
As you grow older you will be given more responsibilities
and freedom in some ways. People expect you to act more
mature and your parents may give you the freedom to
manage your resources like your money and time and
allow you to go out with your friends or travel without
them. This can lead to confusing emotions

6. D) Hormones
Hormonal changes
that
occur during teen
development can
affect emotions by
causing differences
in a
teen’s mood and
energy.

7. II Understanding
Emotions
A) Emotional
Spectrums
Is a set of emotions
arranged by how
pleasant they are.
Some emotions on
the spectrum are
opposites like joy
and sadness. This
spectrum shows
different levels of
intensity of
emotions. Example:
Ecstasy, joy

8. B) Triggers
> Situations, people, events that cause a person to have
negative emotions are triggers. Knowing what triggers cause
negative emotions can help the person avoid these triggers.
People do not have the same triggers. Ex.: Talking to an
arrogant person may be a trigger for some people but other
people are not at all affected. If a trigger cannot be avoided
then the person can prepare for that situation or predict how
he will react.

9. C) Effects of Emotions
1) Pleasant feelings like happiness are associated with comfortable
physical changes like lower blood pressure, lower heart rate and
being energetic.
2) Sadness and worry are associated with fatigue, increased heart
rate, blood pressure and muscle tension
3) Anger can cause shaking, hot flashes, etc.

10. III) Healthy Emotional Expression
A) Unpleasant emotions can affect our lives in good ways.
Examples:
1) Feeling nervous about an exam can motivate you to study
harder
2) Feeling angry about pollution can help you to clean your

11. B) Communication
1) Young children often kick and scream
when they are upset. As you grow
older you should learn to
communicate effectively by saying
the right words in the right time in
the right place.
2) 2) Body language: Observe how
people feel. A unpleasant tone of
voice, crossing of arms , frowning,
silence are all signs of disagreement
3) Active listening: In a conversation,
some people do not really listen to
what the other person is saying but
waiting for his turn to say what he
wants to say. Some even interrupt
another person talking.

12. C) Creative Expression
1) Crying but sometimes it is not
enough to remove bad feelings
2) Talking to someone but sometimes
the problem is too private
3) Exercise is a good way to release
emotions. Sports such as
badminton, tennis, baseball, pingpong, etc
4) Creative Expression: drawing,
painting, making sculpture, writing
or playing music, dancing, making
films and writing prose or poetry.
6) Seeing how other people have
expressed similar feelings
creatively can be helpful:
Listening to music, watching a play
or a video, or reading a book

13. D) Unhealthy Emotional
Expression
1) Sometimes people express
their emotions in ways that
could hurt people –
physically and emotionally
a) Raising one’s voice in
anger
b) Making fun of another
person
(These behavior can
encourage conflict)
2) More severe unhealthy
expression which are
violent
a) Setting fires or breaking
windows, starting fights,
bully others or hurting
animals or even hurting
themselves

14. IV: Coping With Emotions
A) Self -Esteem
1) A measure of how much
you value, respect, and
feel confident about
yourself.
2) People with a high self
–esteem have a positive
view of life.
3) People with low selfesteem feel helpless and
are full of self-doubt.
4) People with high selfesteem see unpleasant
emotions as temporary
problems in a good life
5) People can improve low
self-esteem by finding
activities in which they can
be successful

15. B) Time to Think
1) Take time out from the situation
for you to look closely at your
problem
2) Negative thinking is focusing on
the bad side of a situation
3) Thinking positively in a bad
situation that can help you
cope with unpleasant emotions
is called self-talk
4) Positive thoughts about a bad
situation include statements
like:
a) “This won’t last forever”
b) “ I will have other chances”
c) “ It does not always
happen like this”

16. C) Defense Mechanisms: Automatic behavior used to reduce stress
Humor is also a defense mechanism: finding something funny in a bad situation

17. V. Mental Illness
A) 1) A disorder that affects a
person’s thoughts,
emotions and behavior.
2) One out of six people has
mental illness
3) Mental illness can be
caused by heredity and the
environment
4) Three groups of mental
illness
1) Anxiety disorders
2) Mood disorders
3) Schizophrenia
5) Mental disorders can be
treated by medicines that
balance brain chemistry
and counseling

18. B) Anxiety Disorders
1) Is a feeling of extreme nervousness
or worry
a) Panic disorder: causes the person to
have brief periods of extreme
anxiety called panic attacks
b) Panic attacks that are triggered by
specific things that are called
phobias
Example:
i) Agoraphobia: fear of crowded
places
ii) Claustrophobia: fear of confined
spaces
iii) Altophobia: fear of heights
c) Obsessions: anxiety
triggered by repetitive thoughts
d) Compulsions: developing rituals
such as
too much counting or washing
e) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(OCD):
A combination of anxiety and rituals
f) OCD can be treated with medicines
and
counseling

19. 2) Bipolar Mood Disorder(BMD)
a) BMD is a kind of mood disorder
wherein a person experiences two
b) extreme moods: depression and
mania. It also called manicdepression
c) Depression is extreme sadness or
hopelessness known as major
depressive disorder (MDD).
It is difficult to make them happy,
tiredness, lack of energy, slow
movements, thoughts about death
and suicide.
d) Fifteen percent of depressed people
commit suicide
e) Suicide is one of the leading causes
of death among teens
f) Depression patients can be treated
successfully with proper medicines
and counseling.
Spider-Man 3 actress commits suicide
A young British actress who appeared in Spiderman
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committed suicide, according to reports.
Lucy Gordon was found hanging from the ceiling in her
Paris home by her boyfriend who was in the flat at the
time.

20. c) Manic: too much energy
and irritation;
very active and need little
sleep, talk fast and it is
difficult to interrupt them
d) Hallucinations :
Experiencing and believing
things that are not real
Ex.: a person may hear
voices when no one is
talking
e) Delusions: a false belief
Ex.: think that they are
famous or think
that they are in a
relationship with a famous
person that they have not
met

21. 3) Schizophrenia
a) Is a disorder in which a
person breaks from reality
in several ways
b) They express very little
emotion
c) They have hallucinations
and delusions and feel
paranoia
d) Paranoia is the belief that
other people want to hurt
them
e) Unorganized thinking
which leads to nonsense
speech
f) Other symptoms are their
bodies are frozen in one
position
g) Needs a lifelong treatment