Looking After Yourself

This section explores how to look out for your own wellbeing and safety. We’ll be reviewing some key facts about mental health and alcohol use. By understanding more about these issues you can become more confident in looking after yourself.

Let’s Talk About Mental Health

You may have learned about mental health in PDHPE, from movies, or from experience. It’s alright if you’re still unsure about what exactly mental and emotional wellbeing really means. This quiz will walk you through some key information about common mental health difficutlies.

Key Facts

In these slides you’ll learn about the specifics of mental health problems. It can be really helpful to understand common signs of mental health problems, not to diagnose yourself or your mates, but to know when you might want to reach out for help.

Real Life Example

Now you have the basics, let’s take a look at Emma’s experience in the video below.

Let’s Talk About Alcohol and Safety

You probably know young people under 18 aren’t legally allowed to drink alcohol. Let’s take a look at the key facts about how to keep yourself healthy and safe if you or a mate do encounter alcohol.

Before you move onto the next section your teacher might stop you here to run the classroom activity below.

Optional Class Activity: Think and Share

Your teacher will walk you through this activity for creating and discussing definitions for the most common mental health problems, anxiety and depression. Try to include not just symptoms, but examples too.