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Feelings & Challenges of Depression Word Search

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This 30-word word search helps middle and high school students understand the feelings and challenges associated with depression. Hidden words include anxiety, hopelessness, isolation, and suicidal, covering emotional states, physical symptoms, and coping triggers. Use it in a health or social-emotional learning class, as part of mental-health awareness programming, or as an opening activity for a discussion on emotional regulation.

Subject:
Social Emotional Learning
Topic:
Emotional Regulation
Grade Level:
6th – 12th Grades
Updated August 2025

Word List

  • SADNESS
  • ISOLATION
  • FATIGUE
  • HOPELESS
  • WORTHLESS
  • ANXIETY
  • MOODY
  • SLEEPY
  • GUILTY
  • CRYING
  • SUICIDAL
  • TRIGGERS
  • LONELINESS
  • STRESS
  • STIGMA
  • OVERWHELM
  • DESPAIR
  • PANIC
  • WITHDRAWAL
  • GRIEF
  • SLEEPLESS
  • MOODY
  • EMPTINESS
  • SHAME
  • NUMBNESS
  • FEAR
  • ANGER
  • FRUSTRATION
  • IRRITED
  • ANGER

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