Limbic System
Relaxation Skills
Mental Health Terms
Self-Care Domains
Distress Tolerance
100

The body's response to any outside demands.

What is stress?

100

A relaxation technique where you use a long breathing pattern to relax the body.

What is Paced Breathing or Deep Breathing?

100

This is a term that represents how much we value ourselves based on opinions and beliefs about ourselves.

What is Self-Esteem?

100

Activities that take care of your body such as exercise, sleep, and hygiene.

What is Physical?

100

This is the middle ground of an emotional mind and reasonable mind.

What is Wise Mind?

200
The name of the hormone that is released when experiencing stress.

What is cortisol? 

200

A skill where you use all of your senses to ground the body and reduce stress.

What is Soothing with the 5 Senses?

200

This term represents worry that is more powerful than the threat of the actual circumstance. It can be specific or about general worries.

What is Anxiety?
200

Activities that take care of your need for connection with others such as visiting relatives, spending time with friends, or joining a team.

What is Social?

200

The skill of non-judgmentally observing a situation without the immediate reaction to change it.

What is Acceptance?

300

The front part of the brain that is responsible for regulating thoughts and emotions as well as rational thinking.

What is the Prefrontal Cortex?

300

Observing your thoughts, emotions, and body sensations without judgement.

What is mindfulness?

300

The stress response your body has to a perceived extreme mental or physical threat.

What is Fight-Flight-and Freeze?

300

Activities that take care of someone's need for peace, gratitude, or faith.

What is Spirtual? 

300

Distress Tolerance Skill

TIPP

Temperature

Intense Exercise

Paced Breathing

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

400

The middle part of the brain that is responsible for learning and memory.

What is the Hippocampus?

400

A skill where you form mental pictures that create a sense of calm and peace.

What is Visualization? 

400

This is a term that represents recognizing or affirming a person's thoughts, emotions, or opinions without judgement. 

What is validation?

400

Activities that take care of your need to have a calm mind, positive thoughts, and a sharp mind

What is Mental?

400

Interpersonal Effectiveness Skill to maintain and improve self-respect:

FAST

Fair

Apologize

Stick to your thinking

Truthful

500

The middle part of our brain that is responsible for stress response and emotional reactions.

What is the Amygdala?

500

A skill to reduce stress and tension by tensing and relaxing once muscle group at a time.

What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation?

500

This is a communication style where the needs and values of both people are respected. It is defined by confidence and willingness to compromise. 

What is Assertive Communication? 

500

Activities that take care of our natural responses to daily life such as receiving or giving love, doing something we enjoy, or doing something that makes us laugh.

What is Emotional?

500

Distress Tolerance Skill

ACCEPTS

Activities

Contributing

Comparisons

Emotions

Pushing Away

Thoughts

Sensations

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