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Test Your Mental Health IQ

What's Your Mental Health IQ?

Caring for your mind, as well as your body, is good for your overall health and key to your success at home, at work and at school. Mental health problems, including depression and anxiety disorders, are as treatable as many physical illnesses -- in fact, success rates are often better than those for other medical conditions. Early diagnosis and treatment can help. Seeking help is not a sign of weakness; it's a healthy thing to do.

Take this short true/false quiz and have some fun challenging your knowledge of mental health topics... The answers may surprise you!

    True False
1. Regular exercise can greatly reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety disorders.
2. Treatment success rates for disorders such as depression surpass those for other medical conditions like heart disease.
3. People who have schizophrenia don't usually recover from the disorder.
4. Work-related stress can double a person's risk of dying from heart disease.
5. The number of hours a person works causes more stress at work than the office environment.
6. Workplace stress causes about 1 million U.S. employees to miss work each day.
7. Depression is a normal part of aging.
8. People who have mental disorders are more dangerous than people in the general population.
9. About every two hours, a young person kills himself or herself.
10. One in five Americans experiences a mental health disorder in any given year, but only one-third seek care due to the stigma and misperceptions surrounding mental disorders and their treatment.

Lakeview Center offers mental health, substance abuse and developmental disabilities services for children, adolescents & adults.
For information call (850) 432-1222
Pensacola FL Florida