Distress Tolerance
Crisis Survival
Reality Acceptance
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100

This skill means stopping before reacting.

STOP

100

In TIP, the “T” stands for this strategy:

Temperature

100

This means acknowledging reality exactly as it is.

Radical Acceptance

100

This drug is the most commonly used illicit substance in the United States.

Marijuana

100

This animal can sleep while swimming.

Dolphin

200

This skill involves weighing the advantages and disadvantages of acting on an urge.

Pros Cons

200

In the ACCEPTS acronym, this category involves temporarily pushing painful thoughts and feelings out of awareness.

Pushing Away

200

This DBT skill involves using a slight smile and relaxed facial posture and deliberately relaxing and opening the hands.

Half Smile | Willing Hands

200

This U.S. state has historically had one of the highest rates of opioid overdose deaths per capita.

West Virginia

200

This planet has the shortest day.

Jupiter

300

ACCEPTS includes activities, contributing, comparisons, emotions, pushing away, thoughts, and this final category:

Sensations

300

In the IMPROVE acronym, this skill involves focusing attention on something beautiful or inspiring:

Encouragement

300

This skill requires repeatedly redirecting yourself toward acceptance after noticing resistance.

Turning the Mind

300

This synthetic opioid is estimated to be roughly 50–100 times more potent than morphine.

Fentanyl

300

This is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight.

Bat

400

This distress-tolerance skill involves making the moment more bearable without solving the problem.

Self-Soothing

400

In TIP, this strategy involves briefly holding your breath while activating the mammalian diving response:

Temperature

400

Attempting to force reality to conform to what you want instead of what you need.

Willfulness

400

This stimulant is classified as a Schedule II controlled substance in the United States.

Methamphetamine

400

This is the only food that technically never spoils.

Honey

500

In DBT, this skill requires repeatedly making an internal commitment to accept reality whenever you notice yourself returning to resistance.

Turning the Mind

500

Which TIP component is designed to activate the body's parasympathetic response by deliberately slowing the rate of respiration?

Paced Breathing


500

In DBT, what term describes actively participating in reality as it is, rather than demanding that reality be different before taking effective action?

Willingness

500

Daily Double: Approximately what percentage of U.S. drug overdose deaths in recent years have involved opioids?

~70%

500

This element makes up roughly 78% of Earth's atmosphere.

Nitrogen

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