Question 1

Before modern medicine, mental illness was often believed to be caused by what?

Accepted Answer

Possession by spirits, curses, or supernatural forces - People historically attributed mental illness to spirits and curses because they lacked scientific understanding of the brain, leading them to explain unexplainable behaviors as supernatural influences, demonic possession, or divine punishment for sins

Question 2

How many recorded lobotomies were performed in the United States?

Accepted Answer

50,000

Question 3

When was the last lobotomy performed in the United States?

Accepted Answer

1967

Question 4

What is a trait considered a primary indicator of psychopathy

Accepted Answer

Lack of empathy

Question 5

Trephination, one of the earliest recorded “mental health treatments,” involved what procedure?

Accepted Answer

Drilling a hole in the skull to release spirits

Question 6

True or False?  ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is no longer used today.

Accepted Answer

true ECT remains a vital treatment because it effectively and rapidly resolves severe, treatment-resistant mental illnesses, like depression and mania, when medications and psychotherapy fail, and it can be lifesaving for those with psychosis or suicidal intent.

Question 7

Which is the phenomenon where a person begins to sympathize with or defend their captor is called:

Accepted Answer

Stockholm Syndrome

Question 8

True or False? Early asylums sometimes let the public pay to come watch patients as entertainment

Accepted Answer

true

Question 9

True or False? Brick walls around CAMH were built by patients. The labour was unpaid and considered part of their treatment.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 10

Early horror films sometimes used actual psychiatric patients as extras to create “authentic” terror.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 11

The American Psycatric Association classified homosexuality as a mental disorder until

Accepted Answer

1973

Question 12

Which phenomenon makes someone feel the world around them is fake/dreamlike?

Accepted Answer

Derealization

Question 13

What do many people report seeing during sleep paralysis?

Accepted Answer

A dark shadow figure sitting on their chest

Question 14

The site at 999 Queen St. W was originally called the Provinivial Lunatic Asylum, back in 1850

Accepted Answer

true

Question 15

Nervous women were prescribed all of the following EXCEPT...

Accepted Answer

Cocaine - Cocaine is a stimulant and were not prescribed for women

Question 16

ECT was insiopired by experiments that caused seizures in pigs to "calm" them before slaughter

Accepted Answer

true

Question 17

CAMH used to be called all of the following titles EXCEPT for...

Accepted Answer

Hospital for the Mentally Unwell - 1885

Question 18

Doctors used to inject patients with massive doses of ________ with the belief that it "reset" the brain

Accepted Answer

Insulin

Question 19

In the 1800's patients were locked in coffin-like wooden boxed with slots for breathings. Some for weeks on end.

Accepted Answer

false They would only spend DAYS in the coffin like box

Question 20

Which Study was intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience

Accepted Answer

Milgram Experiment

Mental Health Myths and History Quiz

2) How many recorded lobotomies were performed in the United States?

3) When was the last lobotomy performed in the United States?

4) What is a trait considered a primary indicator of psychopathy

5) Trephination, one of the earliest recorded “mental health treatments,” involved what procedure?

6) True or False? ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is no longer used today.

7) Which is the phenomenon where a person begins to sympathize with or defend their captor is called:

8) True or False? Early asylums sometimes let the public pay to come watch patients as entertainment

9) True or False? Brick walls around CAMH were built by patients. The labour was unpaid and considered part of their treatment.

10) Early horror films sometimes used actual psychiatric patients as extras to create “authentic” terror.

11) The American Psycatric Association classified homosexuality as a mental disorder until

12) Which phenomenon makes someone feel the world around them is fake/dreamlike?

13) What do many people report seeing during sleep paralysis?

14) The site at 999 Queen St. W was originally called the Provinivial Lunatic Asylum, back in 1850

15) Nervous women were prescribed all of the following EXCEPT...

16) ECT was insiopired by experiments that caused seizures in pigs to "calm" them before slaughter

17) CAMH used to be called all of the following titles EXCEPT for...

18) Doctors used to inject patients with massive doses of ________ with the belief that it "reset" the brain

19) In the 1800's patients were locked in coffin-like wooden boxed with slots for breathings. Some for weeks on end.

20) Which Study was intended to measure the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience