Identifying Persistent Symptoms
Some symptoms of mental health disorders may go away or become very mild with this and other treatment.
What is Medication?
Make a list of these and remind yourself of them on a regular basis to counter self-blame.
What are Your Personal Strengths?
Hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, or feeling something when nothing in the environment actually caused that experience.
What is a Hallucination?
The habits that people have around their sleeping.
What is Sleep Hygiene?
Early signs of this can include physical, emotional, behavioral, or cognitive (thinking) changes.
What is Anger?
Sometimes persistent symptoms are distressing and can get in the way of enjoying life or reaching these.
What are Goals?
Combat negative thoughts by reminding yourself of your strengths, resiliency, and potential.
What is Positive Self-Talk?
When people think that someone is out to give them a hard time or hurt them in some way when they are not.
What is a Paranoid Delusion?
Avoid this after 5 p.m.
What is Caffeine?
Talking to this kind of individual can both reduce your feelings of anger and address the causes as well.
What is a Supportive Person?
A symptom that is constantly or frequently present.
What is a Persistent Symptom?
The first step to cognitive restructuring.
What is Identify Your Upset Feeling?
We can use this to shift the focus of our attention to something different.
What is a Distraction?
People with this usually snore very loudly and wake up briefly many times throughout the night because their breathing becomes obstructed.
What is Sleep Apnea?
One common distraction is this.
What is Noise?
Either new symptoms or an increase in persistent symptoms that occur before a relapse.
What are Early Warning Signs?
Doing this regularly both improves mood and reduces anxiety.
What is Exercise?
To check out your experience with someone you trust.
What is Reality Testing?
To have the kind of physical or mental energy that allows people to do something for a relatively long time period.
What is Stamina?
Gradually increasing the time period between these will help you increase your concentration span.
What are Rest Breaks?
Persistent symptoms are not early warning signs unless they worsen before this.
What is a Relapse?
Instead of letting your anxiety consume all your thoughts, you may find it helpful to set aside fifteen to thirty minutes every day specifically for this.
What is Worry Time?
If you have a strong belief that is troubling you, give yourself a chance to take a second look.
What is Don't Jump to Conclusions?
Check off activities on your daily list or try combining a new activity with something you already know you enjoy.
What is Build in Rewards for Yourself?
It helps you concentrate on what the other person is saying and lets them know you are paying attention.
What is Repeating Back (or Paraphrasing)?