Vocab
the strategies and techniques individuals use to manage and navigate stressful or challenging situations.
What are coping skills?
a relaxation technique that involves breathing in slowly through the nose and out through the mouth while using the diaphragm and abdominal muscles
What is deep breathing?
Therapy is the cure to mental health problems.
What is false?
Using substances, drinking, "brushing it under the rug", overeating, or self-harming to not think about the problem.
What is avoidance?
Something that brings about or worsens our mental health symptoms, causing intense emotional reactions.
What are triggers?
an irrational and persistent fear of an object, situation, or activity that causes a person to avoid the source of their fear
What is phobia?
Doing any activity to take your mind off the problem for a short period.
What is distraction?
Addiction is determined by genetics.
What is False.
spending too much time alone, detaching from our friends and family.
What is isolating?
ability to emotionally understand what other people feel, see things from their point of view, and imagine yourself in their place.
What is empathy?
a natural human response to stress or perceived danger
what is anxiety?
involves staying present and fully engaging with the here and now.
What is mindfulness?
Anxiety can be positive or negative.
what is True?
Bottling up our feelings and never thinking about our problems or telling our friends and family what's wrong?
when you justify or support problematic behaviors in a loved one under the guise that you're helping them.
What is enabling?
the thoughts and assumptions we hold about ourselves, others, and the world around us.
what are core beliefs?
statements that can help improve mental health by challenging negative thoughts and replacing them with positive ones.
What are positive affirmations?
Half of all mental health disorders begin by age 14.
What is true? and 3/4 are dx by age 24
the unhealthy tendency to only see the good side of something and deny anything is wrong, and ignore or suppress anxiety and negative feelings.
What is Toxic positivity?
A defense mechanism where someone places their own thoughts, feelings, or motives onto another person
What is projection?
Negative attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes people may hold towards those who experience mental health conditions.
What is stigma?
Daily Double. strategies used to help a person bring their focus back to the present moment by actively engaging their senses, often by identifying things they can see, hear, touch, smell, and taste
what are grounding techniques?
Depressive Disorders are the most commonly diagnosed mental health disorders.
What is false? It is anxiety disorders, specifically GAD.
Ruminating about the problem until your thoughts become intrusive and do not help the situation.
What is over-analyzing?
the act of exploring, confronting, and making sense of thoughts, emotions, experiences, and behaviors in a supportive environment.
What is processing?