Coping With Anxiety
A simple breathing exercise where you inhale slowly for four seconds, hold for four seconds, and exhale for four seconds.
What is square breathing?
What is a healthy coping skill that involves focusing on your breathing to calm down?
What is deep breathing, meditation, or mindfulness?
This practice, which can reduce symptoms of depression.
What is mindfulness?
Thinking about what you're grateful for as a way to neutralize angry feelings.
What is practicing gratitude?
This supportive group, based on a 12-step program, provides a safe space for individuals to share their experiences in recovery.
What is a support group?
Getting enough sleep, eating nutritous meals, and exercising regularly are three pillars of this practice that can help reduce anxiety.
What is self-care?
This technique of focusing on the orient moment by noticing your surroundings, feelings, and thoughts to help ground yourself during stressful times
What is mindfulness?
Physical activity releases endorphins, which have mood boosting effects.
What is exercise?
A simple relaxation technique, done by inhaling slowly through the nose and exhaling through the mouth.
What is deep breathing?
To cope with cravings, this strategy involves shifting your attention and energy toward a healthy or productive task.
What is distraction?
To stop a panic attack, this deep breathing technique has you breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 4 seconds, and exhale for 4 seconds.
What is box breathing?
This group of disorders is defined by a deep and persistent fear of a specific object or situation, such as heights or spiders.
What are Phobias?
Writing down your thoughts and feeling in this private format can help you track symptoms and express emotions more clearly.
What is journaling?
A relaxation method that involves progressively tensing and then releasing different muscle groups in your body.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This mindfulness-based technique helps manage cravings by observing thoughts and feelings without judgment, and is sometimes described by the acronym RAIN.
What is a grounding exercise?
The primary difference is that this is a specific, diagnosed mental illness, while its relative is a normal human emotion everyone feels from time to time.
What is the difference between an anxiety disorder and anxiety?
What is keeping a journal?
Nourish your body with nutritious foods that provide energy and support mental health.
What is having a good diet?
This cognitive technique involves replacing an exaggerated thought like 'Everything is ruined' with a more rational one like' This is frustrating, but I can handle it.
What is cognitive restructuring.
This mindfulness technique involves the steps: Stop, Observe, Breathe, Expand, and Respond.
What is the "SOBER" method?
This grounding technique uses the five senses to bring your mind back to the present moment when you feel overhelmed by anxiety.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 method?
This cognitive technique helps reframe negative or unhelpful thoughts by challenging and replacing them with more balanced alternatives.
What is cognitive restructuring?
Psycho......, such as cognitive behavioral ....... (CBT), can help individuals identify and change negative thought patterns and behaviors associated with depression.
What is therapy?
This broad strategy for managing anger involves physical, cognitive, and communication-based techniques, such as deep breathing, reframing negative thoughts, and using I statements to express frustration effectively.
What are ways to cope with anger?
This dual-diagnosis condition describes when a person suffers from both a substance use disorder and a mental health issue, like depression or anxiety.
What is comorbidity?