Anxiety
Catastrophic
Mind Traps
100

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.

100

What are the 3 types of catastrophic thinking?

Downward spiral

Scatter Shot

Circling

100

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"

200

True or False- is anxiety a reaction to unfamiliar or stressful situations?

True

200

Who created the explanatory style?

Dr. Seligman

200

This mind trap makes you assume what others think, or that others know what you're thinking

"mind reading"

300

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.


300

Name the 5 parts of rational Emotive Behavior Therapy ABC Model

Activating event

Beliefs

Consequences

Disputations of belief

Effective new belief

300

using specific data is to challenge this mind trap

Planning

400

Anxiety typically occurs in the absence of what kind of threat?

Imminent Threat

400

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

 

400

This challenge makes you look at the situation from a different angle

Reframing

500

Is anxiety a natural response to immediate danger?

No, fear is

500

Divide the 3 dimensions into an optimistic explanatory style and a pessimistic explanatory style.

Optimistic- External, unstable, specific

Pessimistic- internal, stable, global

500

Pessimistic thinking, which gives you no control of a bad event is involved with this mind trap

Helplessness

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