Body map

Question 1

So, hands up if you have had days or moments in days..

Answer 1

if this has happened to you - not feeling okay and perhaps not knowing why

Question 2

How do you think someone knows

Answer 2

if they are having a day when they don’t feel ok? What might they be feeling in their body?

Question 3

This picture represents

Answer 3

they physical symptoms we might experience when we are not ok - when we may be worried, sad or down.

Question 4

You might be wondering what these physical symptoms

Answer 4

have got to do with our mental health - well, how we think and feel emotionally is very much felt physically in the body.

Question 5

Sometimes we can feel these symptoms

Answer 5

but have no awareness of the emotions behind it.

Question 6

So, if one of your friends came to school

Answer 6

with all of this going on inside, what behaviours might you notice?

Question 7

This picture represents

Answer 7

the way people can respond to the difficult feelings they have inside. We are not labelling them as being good or bad, just ways of coping with or responding to a difficult feeling.

Question 8

If this was your friend

Answer 8

What could you do to help?