Anxiety
Name 3 physical symptoms of anxiety.
Examples: Heart beating quickly, breathing rapidly, knot in stomach, etc.
Nodding your head and making eye contact are examples of this communication skill.
What is active listening?
This coping skill involves picturing this common traffic sign.
What is a stop sign?
This is the part of our brain responsible for decision-making.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
A specific 4-second breathing method we can use to regulate our emotions.
What is box breathing?
This part of the cycle of anxiety is when we stay away from things that can make us anxious.
What is avoidance?
This communication skill involves repeating the other person's words in your response.
What is reflection?
These are people, places, and things that can cause a reaction in someone.
What are triggers?
This is one of many chemicals that enters our body when we are becoming angry. (HINT: it begins with a "C")
What is cortisol?
This type of effective communication has us using "I" instead of "you."
What is an "I" statement?
Immune system problems and heart disease are two ____ effects of anxiety.
What are "long-term" effects?
What is an open-ended question?
This coping skill involves using breathing and stretching techniques to relieve stress.
What is meditation?
This is what the chemicals that come from our brain are called.
What are neurotransmitters?
These are distorted ways of thinking that make us perceive situations in a different way.
What are cognitive distortions?
Name 3 examples of impulsive behaviors.
Destruction of property, escalating problems, frequent outbursts, etc.
This style of communication is often sarcastic.
What is passive-aggressive communication?
This coping skill requires you to remove yourself from the situation, in order to come back later with a different perspective.
What is a time-out?
This part of our brain fires signals to our body in order to prepare us for fight, flight, or freeze.
What is the amygdala?
What does the A in HALT stand for? (Can you name the other letters? 100 extra points per letter!)
What is anger?
Extra: Hunger, loneliness, tiredness
Name the diagram that shows us how anxiety rises and falls within us.
The cycle of anxiety.
This boundary is being violated if someone criticizes another's feelings.
What are "emotional" boundaries?
This is a way to deconstruct an angry situation by writing our thoughts down.
What is an anger log/journal?
This person was a man whose tragic accident helped us learn about the role of our brain in behavior.
Who is Phineas Gage?
This diagram shows us how anger peaks within us, then how we return to normal.
What is the anger cycle?