ABC
PLEASE
OPPOSITE ACTION
FEELINGS
100

Watching your favorite show, sewing, going for a run, playing a game with your family.

What are accumulate positives?

100

Going to physical therapy for your knee injury.

What is treating Physical Illness (PL)?

100

Urges that go along with anxiety

Avoid, hide, escape

100

These sensations, thoughts, and urges are what emotion: 

Your heart is racing, you're thinking 'this isn't fair', you want to yell.

What is anger?

200

Washing your face every morning when you get up.

What is Build Mastery?

200
Charging your phone on the other side of the room while you sleep.

What is Balanced Sleep?

200

Logging into your boyfriend's snapchat is INEFFECTIVE urge for this emotion.

What is jealousy?

200

Feeling depressed and wanting to stay in bed, not respond to texts, and not eat dinner with your family...are examples of what.

What are urges?

300

You're not going to the winter formal, so you make a plan to have a girl's night with your cousin who also isn't going.

What is Cope Ahead?

300

Dancing along to the new Miley Cyrus song, "Flowers".

What is exercise (E)?

300

Asking yourself these questions demonstrates what skill: 

- am I seeing this accurately?

- are there other ways to interpret this?

- am I thinking in extremes?

What is Checking the Facts?

300

Observing and describing our thoughts, sensations, and urges can help us to _______

What is identify our feelings?
400
Working at a new job.

What is Build Mastery?

400

Enjoying a slice of cake at the birthday party and still eating dinner later.

What is Balanced Eating (E)?

400

Feeling depressed and making plans to go for a walk with friend VS getting out of bed and going to sit on the couch is an example of?

What is doing opposite action 'all the way'?

400

You feel sick to your stomach, you want to blame others and defend yourself, you want to hide forever. What are you feeling?

What is shame or guilt?

500

Thinking about how you can take a 504 break or blue card when you're in class with your ex-girlfriend later and you might feel sad.

What is Cope Ahead?

500

Having only one drink or just drinking soda at the party.

What is Avoiding Mood-Altering Substances?

500
When should you use opposite action?

When your emotions don't fit the facts or do fit the facts, but it's not effective to act on the emotions.

500

Ways that emotions are useful.




They give us a signal to pay attention to something important (fear in a dark alley).

Communicate with others.

Build relationships. 

Make decisions about what to do. 

Set goals.

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