What is one symptom of anxiety?
Feeling restless, wound-up, or on-edge. Being easily fatigued. Having difficulty concentrating. Being irritable. Having headaches, muscle aches, stomachaches, or unexplained pains. Difficulty controlling feelings of worry.Having sl eep problems, such as difficulty falling or staying asleep.
What are the 3 types of catastrophic thinking?
Downward spiral
Scatter Shot
Circling
This mind trap makes you believe that you are the sole cause of every problem which causes a lot of harm to other people
"Me"
True or False- is anxiety a reaction to unfamiliar or stressful situations?
True
Who created the explanatory style?
Dr. Seligman
This mind trap makes you assume what others think, or that others know what you're thinking
"mind reading"
Name one body and mind reaction to anxiety
mind- Not being able to think, lost of thoughts, fumbling words, stuttering
body- sweating, heart racing, dizziness, feeling of throwing up.
Name the 5 parts of rational Emotive Behavior Therapy ABC Model
Activating event
Beliefs
Consequences
Disputations of belief
Effective new belief
using specific data is to challenge this mind trap
Planning
Anxiety typically occurs in the absence of what kind of threat?
Imminent Threat
What is the explanatory style and what our the 3 dimensions?
When bad things happen and our brain tries to answer why.
Internal/external
stable/unstable
global/specific
This challenge makes you look at the situation from a different angle
Reframing
Is anxiety a natural response to immediate danger?
No, fear is
Divide the 3 dimensions into an optimistic explanatory style and a pessimistic explanatory style.
Optimistic- External, unstable, specific
Pessimistic- internal, stable, global
Pessimistic thinking, which gives you no control of a bad event is involved with this mind trap
Helplessness