1. Mental, Emotional Health

2. Welcome To Emotional and
Mental Health!
• Today’s Agenda
– Mental Health Unit begins!
1.Addiction, Depression, Stress, Anxiety
HW: Addiction Research

3. What is addiction?

4. What is
addiction?
Condition in which a
person can no longer
control his or her
need or desire for
something, usually a
“drug”

5. To What Do
People Become
Addicted?

6. Please ADD these to your
Google Chrome
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Got to: Google Chrome
Then Google web store and Add:
Time Tracker
StayFocusd

7. Are you addicted to the
INTERNET?
• Take this test to find out!
http://www.netaddiction.com/index.php?
option=com_bfquiz&view=onepage&catid=
46&Itemid=106

8. • Korean computer games VDO
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
digitalnation/living-faster/digital-natives/
gaming-on-every-corner.html?play

9. • Chris Rene audition on the X Factor
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=dYPTS_39I8g

10. Addiction
• Genetics - important factor
• Environmental - 10% of people who
experiment become addicted
• Drugs Alter the Brain’s Reward Pathway –
When the frontal lobe is still developing
drugs more easily set up addiction for life!

11. HW :
1. Research Addiction
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/addictio
n-can-affect-you-too
- definition, examples, brain research
- signs and symptoms and
- treatment options