Easy Read: Signs You Might Be Struggling with Mental Health

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🧠 What is Mental Health?

Mental health is about how we feel, think, and act.
Sometimes, people can feel unwell in their mind.
This is called mental illness or poor mental health.

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❗ Signs You Might Be Struggling:

😔 Mood changes

Feeling sad all the time

Getting angry or upset easily

Feeling hopeless or worthless

💭 Changes in thinking

Finding it hard to focus or remember things

Feeling confused

Thinking things that don’t seem real or make sense

🚶‍♀️ Behavior changes

Staying away from friends or family

Not enjoying things, you used to like

Sleeping too much or not sleeping at all

Eating more or less than usual

Using alcohol or drugs

When life is going well a lot, we are likely to make good choices, eat healthily, exercise etc.

When life is not going well, we are likely to make not good choices, eat unhealthy, very little or too much , exercise very little or not at all.

📝 Easy Read Quiz – Questions (Sheet 1)

Signs You Might Be Struggling with Mental Health

1️⃣ What is mental health?

2️⃣ What does poor mental health mean?

3️⃣ Name one sign of mood changes.

4️⃣ Name one sign of changes in thinking.

5️⃣ Name one sign of changes in behaviour.

6️⃣ What might happen to sleep when someone has poor mental health?

7️⃣ What might happen to be eating when someone has poor mental health?

8️⃣ When life is going well, what choices do we usually make?

9️⃣ When life is not going well, what kind of choices do we often make?