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Teaser: Are you interested in writing and learning how to write poems? Do you have a mental illness and enjoy reading what others have written? If you have answered yes to one or both of these questions, than this website about mental illness poems is the perfect fit for you.

http://hellopoetry.com/words/683467/mental-illness/poems/

These poems could be used in the classroom with the students when they are learning about emotions and mental health. They can write poems based off of what they are feeling on that specific day or you can give them a specific emotion to write about. These poems will allow them to be able to express themselves in a new way that they might have never gotten a chance to in the past.

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Teaser: What is your first thought/idea that comes to your mind when you see this photo? What do you feel? This image can help you understand how many people are affected by certain mental illnesses.

This photo could be used with children in a classroom when trying to determine what kind of people have what illness. If us as teachers provide examples to students about each type of illness, they can match it up to a specific illness, and then learn more about that illness, and what it entails for the person who has to live with it.

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Teaser: What do you image from this picture, do you think any of these things could help you? All 6 of these items help a person who has a mental illness survive the struggles of everyday life.

This picture can used in the classroom with students when talking about resources that people with mental illness can receive. Students may not know the help that others need, and by learning this, it can help them if they know someone suffering from a mental illness.

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Teaser: Do you see something on this list that you know or may have felt before? This picture can teach you about the different areas of mental illnesses that people have.

This can be something that the students learn in the classroom because they might not know how many different kinds of illnesses are out there. It will also help them to be able to recognize the causes/symptoms of these illnesses better than before.

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Teaser: What does your brain feel like on a normal day? Do you ever feel like a million things are going on in your head? You will soon realize that this is what a person's brain looks like when they have any kind of mental illness.

After looking at this photo, I will be able to use it as an example to show my students how different everyone is. I will explain to them that just because someone is different or does not think the same way as you, does not mean we can judge them. Everyone should just be kind to others.

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Teaser: Have you ever felt alone and that you had no one to turn to? Do you have a mental illness and need to find people that relate to you? Then Youtube is the place for you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y97VF5UJcc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eitRd2Zlvz0

Here are three out of the hundreds of videos that talk about mental health issues and how you are not alone. Youtube's place is for people to get their voices out there and for them to feel like they are being heard.

These videos would be used with students in the classroom when it comes to learning more about mental health. Us as teachers could use these as examples to show the students that they are not alone. and that they have people and places to turn to if they are having any kind of issue in their lives.

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"You're Not Alone" - A Mental Health Awareness Spoken Word Poem

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Author: Marcie Aboff

Illustrator: Damian Ward

Published on January 1st, 2010.

Genre: Fiction

Approximate Interest Level: K-2

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: What does being sad feel like to you? This book explores certain challenges as to why children were upset, and what happened to get over their sadness.

Teaching Idea: Have the kids brainstorm things that make them sad, and have them make a chart with those things on one side, and solutions to make those things happier on the other side of the chart.

Other Ideas: http://www.facthound.com/

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Author: Gabrielle Vincent

Illustrator: Gabrielle Vincent

Published on August 1st, 1988.

Genre: Fiction

Approximate Interest Level: PreK-K

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: Being sick and not knowing what to do with yourself can put anyone in a dark place. Ernest was going through the day feeling so many different dark emotions, but once he felt better, he became happy and to his normal self.

Teaching Idea: Create a plan to have support groups or small groups to allow the students to be able to talk to their peers about what they are truly feeling in that moment and in their lives. This will allow them to be able to better communicate how they are feeling.

Other Ideas: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/therapy

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Author: Barbara Cain

Illustrator: Anne Patterson

Published in August of 2001.

Genre: Fiction

Approximate Interest Level: PreK-3

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: What is your favorite thing to do and how do you feel when you are doing that one thing? On every page, there is a new story, and it shows what the child is doing, and how they are feeling towards it.

Teaching Idea: Have a lesson created into the curriculum where each day would be based on a new emotion or feeling and what are both positive & negative ways of showing that emotion. This lesson would teach kids what the difference of each emotion is, and what to do when they encounter one of them.

Other Idea: https://www.pinterest.com/explore/emotional-support-classroom/

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Author: Sheila Stewart & Rae Simmons

Illustrator: None

Published on September 1st, 2010.

Genre: Non-Fiction

Approximate Interest Level: Grades 3-6

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: Have you ever been unable to identify the emotions you are feeling? In this book it shows people going through different challenges and how they react towards them.

Teaching Idea: Letting your classroom know the people that they can go to for help.

Us as teachers, counselors, principal, or anyone working at the school.

Other Ideas: http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/feeling/

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Author: Bebe Moore Campbell

Illustrator: E.B. Lewis

Published on October 6th, 2005.

Genre: Fiction

Approximate Interest Level: K-3

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: Have you ever needed to call someone to talk about your feelings? Learn more about how Annie's grandma is her saving grace when her mom is having a bad day.

Teaching Idea: Have the students draw pictures or write about a time that they have been upset/angry and how they have overcame that time, and continued to be happy.

Other Ideas: https://www.pinterest.com/simplesongs/teaching-emotions/

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Author: Mark Powell

Illustrator: Kelly Adams

Published on May 4th, 2007.

Genre: Non-Fiction

Approximate Interest Level: Grades 7-12

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: Do you know what stress is or how is it caused? Dig deep into this book to find out why you are stressed and upset, and what you can do to overcome it.

Teaching Idea: Make a lesson around stress and how to handle it. Show the students how to reduce stress which includes healthier foods and potentially working out. If students know how to help reduce their stress, they might seek out those resources in the future.

Other ideas: Use the resources section in the back of this book to help in the future.

Write out ideas in a journal/planner or a to-do list.

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Author: James M. Foley

Illustrator: Shirley Ng-Benitez

Published on April 18th, 2016.

Genre: Fiction

Approximate Interest Level: PreK-3

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: This is a story about a bear named Danny who grew up with Depression, and did not know how to deal with it. After a while, he started to hang out with his friends, and they started to show him how happy life is and how it is like a rainbow, happy and full of joy. Since then, he knows how to deal with his depression.

Teaching Ideas: In the back of this book, there were a couple ideas that would work well in the classroom, including showing students to think about the good things more instead of the bad, and being able to focus on what the student can do instead of what they cannot do.

Other Ideas: Look in the back of this book for other strategies.

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Author: Olive M. Foster

Illustrator: None

Published on December 31st, 2007.

Genre: Non-Fiction

Approximate Interest Level: Teacher/Adult

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: This book is very informational, and provides a lot of definitions and examples to stress disorders, including PTSD and Acute Stress Disorder. In this book, it provides the causes and effects of each disorder, and what a person can do to help get treatment.

Teaching Idea: Place the students who you know get easily stressed or anxious in an environment that they will work best in. If it is by themselves, in a small group, or working with you the teacher, place them there so they can succeed.

Other Ideas: http://www.teachhub.com/classroom-management-techniques-manage-stress

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Author: Pamela L. Laskin & Addie Alexander Moskowitz

Illustrator: Margo Lemieux

Published in June of 1991.

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Approximate Interest Level: Grades 1-4

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: This is a story about a girl who grows up with a mother who is mentally ill. It shows the process of how the family has dealt with it, and what they do to support the mom everyday.

Teaching Idea: Be able to work with students and the school community on raising awareness for mental illnesses.

Other Ideas: https://www.studyinsured.com/health-tips/educators-agents/student-mental-health/mental-illness-in-the-classroom-how-educators-can-help-students-succeed/

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What to Do When You're Sad & Lonely: A Guide for Kids

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What to Do When You're Sad & Lonely: A Guide for Kids

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Author: James J. Crist

Illustrator: Michael Chesworth

Published on November 25th, 2005.

Genre: Science/Health & Medicine

Approximate Interest Level: Grades 3-5

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: Have you ever gone through something and did not know how to handle it? Here is a book that provides different chapters for different stages of emotions, and provides some strategies with how to do deal with them.

Teaching Idea: Let students know that you are a positive person in their live who they can do to if they ever need help or need to talk about something that is going on.

Other Ideas: http://www.tkcalifornia.org/teaching-tools/social-emotional/teaching-strategies/?referrer=https://www.google.com/

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Ups & Downs: How to Beat the Blues and Teen Depression

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Ups & Downs: How to Beat the Blues and Teen Depression

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Author: Written by Susan Klebanoff and Ellen Luborsky.

Illustrator: Andy Cooke

Published on January 25th, 1999.

Genre: Non-fiction

Approximate Interest Level: 5th and up

Approximate Text Level: Not available

Teaser: Have you ever felt sad or down in the dumps? Here is a book to help you understand why you may feel this way, and how you can deal with it in a safe and healthy way.

Teaching Idea: Have students keep a journal of their emotions with how they are feeling both at home, and then at school. Then check on them either daily or weekly with how they are feeling, and what we as teachers can do to help.

Other ideas: http://www.stress-relief-choices.com/stress-management-journal.html