Teen Health
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What makes you happy
- Eating well
- Exercise
- Sleeping well
- Good self image
- Good relationships
- Feeling hopeful
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Eating Well
- Grains and Cereals
- Fruits and veggies
- Calcium and vit D source
- Protein
- 3 meals + 2 snacks
- 6 meals a day
- 6 glasses of water
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Eating disorders
- Obesity
- Anorexia - positive & negative influences.
- Bulimia
Eating for protection
Purging and binging
Purging and binging
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Sleeping Well
- 9.5 hours for teens (7-9 for adults)
- Same time +/- one hour
- Sleep hygiene: wind down, dark, quiet, cool
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Risk Behaviour
- Leading cause of teen death related to collisions and cars.
- Probability - cause and effect
- What happened before what just happened?
- Faster than a run = lid
- Risk and resilience
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I was minding my own business!
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Mental Health
- Mind/Body connection
- Anxiety - concern for future or past events (debilitating rather than motivating)
Journal
Fight and flight or freeze response doesn't leave. Body exhausts this process as it never goes away.
We're looking for a threat in our environment. If one doesn't present itself, we'll manufacture one.
Adrenaline is produced to deal with a bear that isn't there. Long term exposure isn't healthy. Is exhausting and can lead to a feedback loop.
Signs - trembling, dizziness, stomach ache,
Worrying rarely helps you improve.
Freezing works with hares - not so much public speaking. Monkey mind.
Disorders related to anxiety
1. Panic attacks - feels like a heart attack
2. Eating disorders
3. Depression
Fight and flight or freeze response doesn't leave. Body exhausts this process as it never goes away.
We're looking for a threat in our environment. If one doesn't present itself, we'll manufacture one.
Adrenaline is produced to deal with a bear that isn't there. Long term exposure isn't healthy. Is exhausting and can lead to a feedback loop.
Signs - trembling, dizziness, stomach ache,
Worrying rarely helps you improve.
Freezing works with hares - not so much public speaking. Monkey mind.
Disorders related to anxiety
1. Panic attacks - feels like a heart attack
2. Eating disorders
3. Depression
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Anxiety
- Panic attacks & agoraphobia
- PTSD
- Social anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Phobias
- Eating disorders
- ADD
- Mania
Self coaching - stop, recognize what's going on,
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Suicide
- 15-19 spike in self injuries
- Help Line - okay to call
- Perfect storm can be avoided - there's help.
- 811 - call
Go Ask Alice - resource for research
Anxiety BC - from UBC .. best resource for teen anxiety.
Anxiety BC - from UBC .. best resource for teen anxiety.
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