Unhealthy Coping Skills
Healthy Coping Skills
Stress Disorders
Resources
100
This unhealthy way of coping includes the act of deliberately harming one's body with a knife, razor, or any sharp object.
What is Cutting?
100
You need 7-8 hours of this.
What is good quality sleep?
100
This is when someone has unusually high levels of anxiety and constant worry and recurring negative thoughts about finances, family or work.
What is Generalized anxiety disorder?
100
These actions include talking to your trusted person who cares about you, respects your privacy, knows how to help you, such as your parents/guardian, friends, counsellors, or anyone you feel comfortable sharing your thoughts and stories with.
What are ways to deal with feeling down or stressed?
200
This unhealthy way of coping includes the act of avoiding and distancing yourself from the community.
What is isolating?
200
This healthy coping method has stress-busting benefits because it pumps out “feel good” hormones by the brain during this activity.
What is exercise?
200
This is a mood disorder that changes the way people feel, leaving them with mental and physical symptoms for long periods of time. It can look quite different from person to person. Some signs and symptoms include: Difficulty concentrating, feeling fatigue or a decreased in energy, feeling of guilty, worthlessness, and hopelessness.
What is Depression?
200
Depression is diagnosed twice as much in this gender than the other. Some reasons for this difference include life-cycle changes, hormonal changes, higher rates of childhood abuse or relationship violence, and social pressures. This gender group are usually more comfortable seeking help for their problems than the other gender which likely means that depression in the other gender may be highly under-reported.
What are Women diagnosed with depression
300
This unhealthy way of coping includes denying your body's hunger by deliberately not eating.
What is starving yourself?
300
This is a physical and mental practice that involves physical poses, controlled breathing, and meditation or relaxation.
What is Yoga?
300
This is a sudden, unexpected rush of intense anxiety symptoms such as the heart racing, feeling weak, faint, or dizzy, tingling or numbness in the hands and fingers, having a sense of terror, or impending doom, feeling sweaty or having chills, having chest pains and having breathing difficulties. And it can that can last anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes.
What is a panic disorder? ***not everyone who has panic attacks has a panic disorder
300
This is the best person to talk to about your problems.
What is someone you trust ?
400
This unhealthy way of coping includes the act of forcing yourself to vomit, excessively exercising, and taking laxatives.
What is purging?
400
This activity includes listening and can be linked to our emotions, and can have a relaxing effect on our minds, emotions and bodies. We can close our eyes and meditate to it.
What is music?
400
This is when someone is a part of or witnesses one or more traumatic events such as war, assault, accidents, or natural disasters. This can be harmful to their mental health because they can relive these events long after they’re over, through nightmares and flashbacks.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
400
These are resources/people at school you can get help from.
What are school counselor, school nurse, teachers and peers?
500
These are unhealthy stress coping mechanisms.
What are: being angry and take stress out on others, developing eating disorders or substance abuse problems such as smoking, vaping, drugs, etc.?
500
These are the benefits of a good quality sleep.
What is improved learning, memory, concentration, body functioning?
500
These are unhealthy NEW or old behaviour habits that some people do in order to cope with stress.
what is: cutting, social isolation, skipping class, school, dropping club activities, dropping out of your extracurricular activities such as sport teams, smoking, vaping, drugs, and alcohol.
500
These Youth Clinics in Vancouver that offer stress management/counselling for youth.
What are: - Boulevard Youth Clinic? - Broadway Youth Resource Center Youth Clinic? - Knight Street Youth Clinic? - Ravensong Youth Clinic?
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