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| Health | Combination of physical, mental/emotional and social well-being |
| Physical Health | The health and care of your body |
| Mental/Emotional Health | Your ability to deal with the stresses and changes in daily life |
| Social Health | Area of health that incolves your ability to relate to others. |
| Health Triangle | Shows the balance of physical, mental/emotional and social health. |
| Wellness | Actively making choices for good health |
| Heredity | The passing on of traits from one generation to the next. |
| Environment | The sum total of your surroundings |
| Culture | Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people |
| Risk Behaviors | Actions or choices that may cause injury or harm to you or others |
| Consequences | results of your actions |
| Prevention | Taking steps to ensure something doesn't happen |
| Abstinence | Refusing to participate in unsafe behaviors |
| Values | Guides for how you live and what you think is important |
| HELP | Is it healthful?Ethical?Legal?Would my parents approve? |
| Decision Making | Process of making choices to solve a problem. |
| Personality | A special mix of traits, feelings, attitudes and habits. |
| Factors that shape your health | Heredity, environment and behavior. |
| Behavior | Area of health you have control over |
| Self Concept | The view you have of yourself |
| Self Esteem | The confidence and pride you have in yourself |
| Communication | The exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs amongst people |
| Verbal and NonVerbal | The forms of communication |
| Sending Skills | How to send a message clearly and accurately to someone else |
| Receiving Skills | How to hear and correctly understand a message someone is sending us. |
| Body Language | Postures, gestures, and facial expressions |
| Emotions | Feelings inside us like happiness and anger |
| Emotional Needs | To love and be loves, to belong, and to feel worthwhile |
| Peer Pressure | The influence or pressure of people your age |
| Bullying | When a person is picked on over and over again by an individual or group with more power. |
| Clique | Tight groups that usually have a strict code of membership and ways to act |
| Stress | The bodies reaction to changes around you |
| Distress | Stress that holds you back |
| Eustress | Positive stress that can help you to accomplish goals |
| Fight or Flight | The bodies reaction to extreme stress to either stay and fight or run |
| Stressor | Anything that causes stress |
| Andrenaline | Hormone produced during times of stress that increases the sugar in the blood and gives the body more energy. |
| Changes during fight or flight | Increased heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, perspiration, dialted pupils, muscles tense and tighten, digestion shuts down temporarily |
| Fatigue | Extreme tiredness |
| Physical fatigue | Extreme tiredness of the body |
| Psychological fatigue | Extreme tiredness due to a mental state |
| Stress Management Tools | relax, plan ahead, talk it out, exercise, meditate |
| Illnesses related to stress | headaches, stomach problems including ulcers, sleeping problems, high blood pressure, heart attacks |
| Eating Disorders | Extreme and damaging eating behaviors that can lead to sickness and even death |
| Anorexia | Self-starvation due to an intense fear of being fat |
| Health Problems associated with anorexia | Abnormal weight loss, anemia, hair loss, brittle bones, sensitivity to cold, menstruation may stop, malnutrition, death |
| Bulimia | Binge eating followed by a purge |
| Health problems associated with bulimia | Swollen salivary glands, broken blood vessels around the eyes, discolored teeth, bad breath, irritated esophagus, stomach problems, heart problems, death |
| Suicide | Taking of ones own life |
| Depression | Extreme feeling of sadness, hopelessness and helplessness |
| Anxiety Disorder | Disorder in which intense anxiety or fear keeps a person from functioning normally |
| Examples of anxiety disorder | Phobias, OCD, some stress disorders |
| Examples of mood disorders | Depression, bipolar disorder |
| Support system | Network of people in your life available to help you when you need them. |
| Reasons for eating disorders | Distorted body image, poor self-concept, media messages, lack of positive role models, control issues, emotional distress |
| Warning Signs of suicide | talking about death or ways to die, withdrawel from family and friends, tiredness,low energy, loss of interest in hobbies, sports or school, taking greater risks or drug use, giving away prized possessions, history of suicide attempts |
| Self-Injury | Causing deliberate, intentional, repetitive harm to oneself |
| Ways to help people with mental health problems | Listen, give them support but do not make judgements, get them help from a parent or guidance counselor or school nurse, if they are suicidal tell someone, do not keep it a secret |
