This activity was designed to help you self-reflect on your own mental health and wellness at this particular moment in time.
As mental health is not a static state, you may repeat this exercise as often as you wish.
As you learned in the course, the state of one’s health can move back and forth on the Continuum.
Many people have physical and mental health concerns that, when identified and treated early, can be temporary and reversible.
Even when experiencing a mental health issue or illness, it is possible to return to your healthy state.
Open the tabs below to focus in on the different kinds of changes, and tap on any of them to highlight the indicators that best reflect your current mood, thoughts and attitude, physical state, behaviour, performance, and substance use.
The colour pattern that emerges from using the Mental Health Continuum is meant to help you to build self-awareness around your mental health.
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Normal mood fluctuations Calm Confident |
Irritable Impatient Nervous Sadness |
Angry Anxious Pervasive sadness |
Easily enraged Excessive anxiety/panic Depressed mood, numb |
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Good sense of humor Takes things in stride Ability to concentrate and focus on tasks |
Displaced sarcasm Intrusive thoughts Sometimes distracted or loss of focus on tasks |
Negative attitude Recurrent intrusive thoughts Constantly distracted or cannot focus on tasks |
Noncompliant Suicidal thoughts/intent Inability to concentrate, loss of memory or cognitive abilities |
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Physically and socially active Present Performing well |
Decreased activity/socializing Present but distracted Procrastination |
Avoidance Tardiness Decreased performance |
Withdrawal Absenteeism Can’t perform duties/tasks |
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Normal sleep patterns Good appetite Feeling energetic Maintaining a stable weight |
Trouble sleeping Changes in eating patterns Some lack of energy Some weight gain or loss |
Restless sleep Loss of appetite Some tiredness or fatigue Fluctuations or changes in weight |
Cannot fall/stay asleep No appetite Constant and prolonged fatigue or exhaustion Extreme weight gain or loss |
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Limited alcohol consumption, no binge drinking Limited/no addictive behaviours No trouble/impact due to substance use |
Regular to frequent alcohol consumption, limited binge drinking Some to regular addictive behaviours Limited to some trouble/impact due to substance use |
Frequent alcohol consumption, binge drinking Struggle to control addictive behaviours Increasing trouble/impact due to substance use |
Regular to frequent binge drinking Addiction Significant trouble/impact due to substance use |