Problem 1: What are your attitudes about and toward mental health disorders? Describe how much and in what ways do mental health issues and problems affect our lives today/right now?
Problem 2: List 7 adjectives that you associate with people diagnosed as mentally ill/having a psychological disorder?
Problem 3: If you meet or have someone who was once diagnosed as/having a psychological disorder/being mentally ill, sometimes even just depressed, what are/were your immediate reactions?
Problem 4: List some comments you heard as a child as well as some that you are hearing now about people who are/were diagnosed as having a psychological disorder (or depression and other symptoms)?
Problem 5: Have you ever had any actual interactions with 'mentally ill, people or people with a psychological disorder that have supported or contradicted your expectations? Tell us more.
Problem 6: Do you agree with the idea that psychological disorders should be viewed as an illness or disease? Defend your position(s) in a substantial reflective paragraph or two.