Basics
This type of therapy says that behaviors are caused by thoughts and feelings.
What is CBT?
This means telling the truth.
What is honesty?
This is finger pointing, or putting the responsibility on someone else.
What is Blaming?
These are things that set you off and can lead you to make poor choices.
What are triggers?
When you don't have energy, don't find pleasure in things, feel guilty or worthless, or have thoughts that you would be better off dead.
What are symptoms of depression?
This is a person who helps people learn about their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so that they can control themselves and be safe.
What is a counselor, psychologist, doctor, therapist?
This means talking about your feeling in good ways.
What is openness?
This is when we make something seem less than it really was.
What is Minimizing?
These are the thoughts, feelings, places, or behaviors that lead to trouble.
What are Danger Zones or High-Risk Situations?
When you start seeing or hearing things that no one else can see or hear, when you start having bizarre, fixed beliefs that you don't let go of, or when you start to become paranoid that something or someone is after you.
What are symptoms of psychosis?
This is when you tell the truth, when you admit you did something wrong, and when you think about other people, not just yourself.
What is Right Thinking?
This means doing your best even when it's difficult.
What is effort?
This is when we look only at the "reasons" we didn't do something that we were supposed to do, or when we did something we weren't supposed to do.
What is Making Excuses?
This is what you can use to get out of or away from a Danger Zone.
What is an Escape Plan?
When you feel hyper, barely sleep but feel great, talk so fast you can't get all your thoughts straight, make impulsive decisions, or get really irritable that you start fights.
What are symptoms of mania?
This is when you lie, only think of yourself, and blame other people for something you have done.
What is Wrong Thinking?
This means taking care of the things that you need to and admitting when you have done something wrong.
What is responsibility?
This is when we try to get attention and to make other people feel sorry for us.
What is Poor Me or Victim Stance?
These are the three different types of ways to express feelings.
Passive, aggressive, and assertive.
When you feel like you have to use a substance every day even though it's ruining your life, you have to fight the urge to use, you have to use more of the substance to get the same effect, or experience withdrawal when you try to quit.
What are symptoms of substance use disorder?
The types of thoughts we have that lead to us getting into trouble.
What is a negative automatic thought, wrong thinking, cognitive distortion, thinking error?
This means doing what is right even when it is difficult.
What is integrity?
This is when we make extreme statements and don't leave room for anything else.
What is Black-and-White Thinking?
These are the things I should do when I am triggered (hint: S.O.D.A.)
STOP! Think about your trigger.
Options. Think about your choices.
Decide. Choose the best option.
Act. Behave in a way based on your best choice.
When you can't stop worrying about many different things, you have trouble sleeping from worrying so much, you overthink things and plan for worst-case scenarios, and you have trouble focusing/concentrating because of all these worries.
What are symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder?