Mental Health
This term describes a person's overall emotional, psychological, and social well-being.
Mental Health
This is a person, place, feeling, or situation that increases the desire to use substances.
Trigger
This involves focusing on another activity until the emotion passes.
Distracting (or Distract or Distraction)
This professional provides counseling and helps people work through mental health challenges.
Therapist (or Counselor)
These are personal limits that help protect your emotional, physical, and mental well-being by communicating what you are comfortable and uncomfortable with.
Boundaries
This mental health condition involves persistent sadness, low motivation, and loss of interest in activities.
Depression
This describes a strong urge or desire to use a substance
Craving
This coping skill involves focusing your attention on the present moment without judging your thoughts or feelings.
Mindfulness
This type of therapy involves multiple people meeting together with a trained professional to share experiences, learn coping skills, and support each other through similar challenges.
Group Therapy (or Group Counseling)
This is shown when someone treats others with dignity and consideration, even when they have different opinions or beliefs.
Respect
This condition involves excessive worry, fear, or nervousness that can interfere with daily life.
Anxiety
This term describes returning to substance use after a period of recovery.
Relapse
This breathing exercise involves breathing in, holding, breathing out, and holding again for equal amounts of time.
Box Breathing
This is the three-digit phone number for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
This is the ability to understand and share another person's feelings or perspective.
Empathy
This mental health disorder can affect how a person thinks, perceives reality, and interprets the world. Symptoms may include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and changes in behavior.
Schizophrenia
This is when someone's body needs more of a substance to feel the same effect
Tolerance
This relaxation technique involves intentionally tensing and then releasing different muscle groups in the body to reduce physical tension and promote calmness.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation (or PMR or Muscle Relaxation)
This peer-support recovery group uses a 12-step program to help people who want to stop drinking alcohol by connecting with others who have similar experiences.
Alcoholics Anonymous
This involves acknowledging when you have hurt someone, taking responsibility for your actions, and expressing regret while working to repair the relationship.
Apologizing
This is a sudden episode of intense fear or discomfort that can include physical symptoms such as a racing heart, sweating, shaking, shortness of breath, or feeling out of control.
Panic Attack
A plan that identifies triggers, coping strategies, and supports to help someone maintain recovery.
Relapse Prevention Plan
This DBT skill involves doing the healthy behavior that is opposite of an unhealthy emotional urge.
Opposite Action
This peer-support recovery group uses a 12-step program to help people who want to stop using drugs by connecting with others in recovery.
Narcotics Anonymous (or NA)
This communication style involves clearly expressing your thoughts, feelings, and needs while also respecting the thoughts, feelings, and boundaries of others.
Assertive Communication (or Assertive or Assertiveness)