Emotions
True or false: Being emotional means being out of control.
False.
Describe the mastery skill.
What is doing things that make you feel competent, self-confident, in control, and capable of mastering things.
Thinking about how we handle negative emotions, what is the difference between pain and suffering?
Pain is normal and cannot be avoided, everyone experiences painful emotions. If we accept them and process them, we can move on. Suffering is when we refuse to accept or try to block painful emotions, and they stay with us for longer
There are both internal and external prompting events. Give 1 example of each.
Points for correct responses.
Emotional regulation training helps you _______ negative emotional vulnerability and emotional suffering.
Decrease.
What does PEASE stand for?
Physical (treat physical illness)
Eating (balanced eating)
Avoid drugs and alcohol
Sleep (quality sleep)
Exercise
Name the 4 negative emotions in the Opposite to emotion action skill.
What are fear, guilt, sadness/depression, and anger?
Describe the main steps of the pathway of an emotion.
1. Prompting event
2. Interpretation of the event
3. Body responses
4. Action urges
5. Action
6. After effects
True or false: Some emotions are bad.
False.
Describe why using drugs is not an effective way to increase positive emotions in the short term.
What is drugs numb emotions and give artificial happiness; it is temporary, can create long term problems.
______ is the DBT skill in which you practice being in the present moment.
What is mindfulness.
Describe the difference between action urges and actions
An action urge is the urge you have to do something, such as when you are escalated and you want to punch something. The action is doing the punching. Just because you have an action urge, does not mean you have to do the action.
The 8 primary emotions
What are "Love, Joy, Fear, Sadness, Disgust, Guilt/shame, Anger, Interest/curiosity"
Emotions are good for: _________ to others, ________ to self, and motivating _______ .
Communication, communication, action.
Describe why healthy relationships contribute to a life worth living.
What is because humans are social creatures and most need healthy relationships to thrive. To do this, we attend to relationships, those being healthy new, past, and current relationships.
Describe how you would use the opposite to emotion action skill when experiencing guilt/shame.
What is if guilt/shame is justified, repair the situation, act in a way that makes you feel more aligned with your values, then move on.
From the Path to Emotion chart, what are 3 examples of "Body and Brain Changes", which happen right after the Prompting Event
-Chemicals. Dopamine, adrenaline, etc.
-Facial expression, body language, etc.
-Body changes, like increased heart rate, sweating, tensed muscles, etc.
True or false: Understanding and identifying emotions is a goal of emotion regulation training.
True.
Describe how to build positive experiences for both in the short term and long term.
Short term: Do pleasant healthy activities that are possible today
Long term: make goals, attend to relationships, avoid giving up.
Describe the 4 steps of letting go through mindfulness.
1. Observe your emotion.
2. Experience your emotion.
3. Remember you are not your emotion (you do not have to act on it).
4. Practice accepting your emotion (emotions are natural and normal!)
A tiger just walked into the cafeteria. Therapist Matt is afraid of the tiger, Tori thinks the tiger is pretty cool. Describe why Matt and Tori may have interpreted this prompting event differently, and how it impacts the rest of the emotion pathway.
Past experiences with tigers, education, thoughts about tigers, combat skills, maybe Tori was adopted by tigers. Going through the rest of the emotion pathway, our body responses, action urges, actions, and after effects will be different.