Mental Wellness
Talking to this type of professional can help someone work through emotional and behavioral challenges.
What is a therapist or counselor?
Someone who has this phobia is extremely afraid of enclosed or confined spaces.
What is claustrophobia?
Taking a walk, stretching, or working out are examples of this healthy coping strategy.
What is exercise?
A strong desire or urge to use alcohol or drugs is called this.
What is a craving?
Feeling angry, lonely, anxious, or depressed can be examples of this type of trigger.
What are emotional triggers?
This wellness habit helps your brain and body recover and can improve concentration and mood.
What is sleep?
This phobia involves fear of situations where escape might feel difficult or help may not be readily available.
What is agoraphobia?
Listening to your favorite songs can be a healthy way to relax or manage emotions.
What is listening to music?
Continuing to use a substance despite significant negative consequences can be a feature of this condition.
What is a substance use disorder?
Crowded rooms, loud noises, or certain locations can fall into this category of triggers.
What are environmental triggers?
Setting these helps protect your emotional well-being and communicates what you will and will not accept.
What are boundaries?
A person with this phobia has an intense fear of needles or injections.
What is trypanophobia?
Challenging an overly negative thought and replacing it with a more balanced one is this CBT strategy.
What is reframing?
This occurs when someone needs increasing amounts of a substance to experience the same effect.
What is tolerance?
Someone feels ignored during a conversation and immediately thinks, “Nobody cares about me.” Feeling ignored may be triggering this deeper experience.
What is rejection?
Friends, family, peers, therapists, and community resources can make up this important recovery resource.
What is a support system?
A person with this phobia experiences an intense fear of being alone.
What is autophobia?
Naming five things you see, four you can touch, three you hear, two you smell, and one you taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique?
This written strategy identifies triggers, warning signs, coping skills, supports, and steps to take when the risk of returning to substance use increases.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Someone notices that certain anniversaries bring back painful memories and strong emotions.
What is an anniversary trigger?
This written plan identifies warning signs, coping strategies, supportive people, and resources to use during a mental health crisis.
What is a safety plan?
This unusually long word refers to a fear associated with long words.
What is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?
You feel like isolating when depressed but deliberately call someone supportive instead.
What is opposite action?
Someone begins isolating, stops attending recovery activities, and starts thinking they no longer need support. These changes may represent this.
What are relapse warning signs?
A person notices their heart racing, muscles tightening, and breathing becoming faster after being triggered. These are examples of this.
What are physical warning signs/triggers?