Emotion Regulation
____ can impact mental health because of the connection between mind and body.
What is physical health?
___ thinking is a defining feature of depression.
What is negative?
____ involves taking breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth for certain amounts of time.
What is deep breathing?
____ helps to keep you busy until negative feelings pass or become less intense.
What is distraction?
___ is a helpful emotion to help use recognize danger, like in the fight-or-flight response, but can cause problems if it is uncontrollable.
What is fear?
Emotions are beneficial because they help us with ___ and connecting with others.
What are social skills?
___ is a mindfulness skill that involves sitting comfortably and focusing your attention on your breathing.
What is meditation?
___ thoughts are not based in fact and impact how you feel, such as "something bad is going to happen."
What is irrational?
____ physical sensations can help manage distress and urges to self-harm by drawing attention from racing thoughts to physical sensations (ex: squeezing an ice cube or eating sour candy).
What is safe?
Depression and ___ are often diagnosed together.
Emotion ____ can result in distress, feeling overwhelmed, and using unhealthy behaviors to cope.
What is dysregulation?
This common symptom of depression means to withdraw and remove yourself from others.
What is isolation?
Self-isolation/social isolation/isolating
____ involves thinking of or visualizing something positive, calming, or a happy memory to help you feel relaxed.
____ helps you focus on someone/something other than yourself. You can volunteer, do a good deed, help someone out, etc. to help you feel good.
What is contributing?
There are typically 3 states of mind: Reasonable/Rational mind, Emotional mind, and ___.
What is wise mind?
This skill involves changing your emotion by changing the typical way you react to it.
What is Opposite Action?
Identifying and using your ___ can help you manage depression and focus on positive traits rather than negative.
What are strengths?
___ is a common experience associated with anxiety that temporarily relieves anxiety, but often makes it worse in the long run.
What is avoidance?
You can use distress tolerance skills when you are emotionally overwhelmed, feel like emotional pain is too strong, or you have the urge to use ___ coping skills.
What is unhealthy?
Anger ___ are clues that your body gives you that indicate your anger is about to grow.
What are warning signs?
____ involves staying present in the moment and having awareness of thoughts and feelings without judgement.
What is mindfulness?
Depression saps your energy and makes you feel like you can't or don't want to do anything. This skill can help you get back to doing activities you enjoy.
What is behavioral activation?
____ techniques help control uncomfortable symptoms and distress by turning attention away from thoughts, memories, or worries, and refocusing on the present moment.
What is grounding?
___ means to accept problems that are out of your control as they are.
What is radical acceptance?
___ are the ideals most important to you in your life that a play a role in shaping your goals, priorities, and identity. These can be things like love, family, empathy, education, etc.
What are values?