mental health crisis
Acute psychiatric distress
A mental health crisis is a period when someone's psychological distress becomes severe enough to require immediate intervention—risk of self-harm, psychotic episodes, or inability to function.
The term has expanded beyond clinical emergencies to describe broader societal patterns: The pandemic triggered a mental health crisis among teenagers.
Crisis hotlines and crisis counselors address acute episodes.
- self-harmDeliberately damaging one's body
- cry for helpUrgent request for assistance
- suicidal ideationThoughts of ending one's life
- delusionsFirmly held false beliefs
- hallucinationsPerceptions without external cause
panic · peer support groups · psychiatric evaluation · inpatient care · helplines · dissociation · intrusive thoughts · therapy · coping skills · hospitalization · trauma · medication · psychoeducation · healthcare accessibility · emergency services · social workers · emotional dysregulation · panic attacks
- public healthdisease prevention, immunization, disease control, epidemiology, vaccination programs
- crisesemergency, disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- global issuesclimate change, water scarcity, inequality, pandemics, poverty
- health crisespandemic, epidemic, outbreak, AIDS epidemic, disease spread
- crisis helphotline, helpline, lifeline, suicide hotline, emergency line
- social challengeshomelessness, inequality, affordable housing, food insecurity, criminal justice
mental health crisismental wellness
Healthy state of mind
emotional stability · sound mind · groundedness · composure · emotional regulation
mental health crisisemotional wellbeing
State of mental flourishing
mental health · inner peace · self-actualization · joy · serenity