1. Mental Health
Awareness Quiz

2. How much do you know about mental health? The Staff
Health & Wellbeing team at Sandwell and West
Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust have compiled a quiz to
help you improve your awareness of mental health.

3. Depression is a bad mood, a
state of mind, not a medical
illness

4. False!

5. Only women suffer from
eating disorders

6. False!

7. Children don’t get
depression, it’s just part of
growing up

8. False!

9. Stress can instigate other
health issues

11. Women are more likely
than men to be at risk of
depression and/or
anxiety, self harm and
eating disorders

13. Black Caribbean people
are more likely than white
people to be diagnosed
with schizophrenia

15. Individuals from ethnic
minorities are more likely to
experience poor outcomes
from treatment

17. Some people misuse
substances as a form of
self-medication to
alleviate the symptoms of
mental health problems

19. Violence is a symptom of
schizophrenia

20. False!

21. Recovery from mental
illness is not possible

22. False!

23. A lack of sleep can cause
depression

25. People with mental illnesses
obtain work and hold down a
good job

27. Depression is a choice and a
sign of personal weakness

28. False!

29. Drug addiction is a
voluntary behaviour and
people can stop doing drugs
if they really want to

30. False!

31. Most people with
depression never go to a
mental health professional

33. Depression causes physical
pain

35. Stress and anxiety are the
same thing

36. False!

37. Being easily annoyed and
unusually irritable can be
an emotional warning sign
of too much stress

39. Anxiety is always a negative
harmful emotion

40. False!