Emotions
This emotion is often described as feeling threatened or worried about something that may happen in the future.
What is anxiety?
A mental health condition characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest, and low motivation.
What is depression?
This behavior involves avoiding responsibilities, feelings, or difficult situations.
What is avoidance?
Taking slow, controlled breaths to calm the nervous system is an example of this coping skill.
What is deep breathing?
Untreated mental health symptoms can increase the risk of this.
What is relapse?
This skill involves recognizing and naming your emotions without judging them.
What is emotional awareness?
This mental health condition often includes excessive worry, restlessness, and difficulty relaxing.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
When someone repeatedly blames others for their problems instead of examining their own behavior, they may be lacking this.
What is accountability?
Calling a sponsor, therapist, or trusted friend is an example of using this.
What is social support?
This term describes having both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder.
What is co-occurring disorder (dual diagnosis)?
This emotion often masks other feelings such as sadness, fear, embarrassment, or hurt.
What is anger?
Experiencing a trigger may cause someone to re-experience emotions connected to this.
What is trauma?
This defense mechanism involves refusing to acknowledge a problem despite evidence that it exists.
What is denial?
This coping strategy involves focusing on the present moment rather than worrying about the past or future.
What is mindfulness?
A situation, thought, feeling, or event that increases emotional distress is called this.
What is a trigger?
The ability to experience difficult emotions without immediately reacting to them is called this.
What is distress tolerance?
This mental health symptom involves hearing, seeing, or sensing things that are not actually present.
What are hallucinations?
Manipulating others by making them question their reality or perceptions is called this.
What is gaslighting?
Writing about thoughts and emotions regularly is known as this coping skill.
What is journaling?
This type of thinking assumes the worst possible outcome will happen.
What is catastrophizing?
This DBT concept involves accepting reality as it is, even when you do not like it.
What is radical acceptance?
A person experiencing extreme mood swings between elevated and depressed moods may be struggling with this disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
This behavior occurs when someone brings a third person into a conflict instead of addressing the issue directly.
What is triangulation?
This DBT skill encourages people to stop, observe, and proceed mindfully before reacting.
What is the STOP skill?
Believing "I failed once, so I will never succeed" is an example of this cognitive distortion.
What is all-or-nothing thinking?