Coping Skills
This simple breathing technique involves inhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds, and exhaling for 4 seconds.
What is box breathing?
This condition involves persistent feelings of worry, tension, and nervousness.
What is anxiety?
This type of therapy focuses on changing negative thinking patterns and behaviors.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?
This is your body’s natural response to challenges or demands.
What is stress?
This skill involves catching an unhelpful thought and replacing it with something more realistic, fair, and less extreme.
What is thought reframing?
This coping skill involves focusing attention on the present moment by noticing your surroundings, breathing, or bodily sensations.
What is grounding?
This condition may include symptoms like low mood, loss of interest, fatigue, and hopelessness.
What is depression?
This therapy created by Marsha Linehan teaches mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
What is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)?
This hormone increases when you’re stressed and decreases when you relax.
What is cortisol?
This type of thinking happens when you assume you know what someone else is thinking without any real evidence.
What is mindreading?
This coping skill involves intentionally focusing on the present moment without judgement.
What is mindfulness?
This mental health condition can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
This type of therapy involves multiple people sharing experiences and supporting each other in a facilitated session.
What is group therapy?
This term describes the ability to bounce back after a difficult experience.
What is resilience?
This mindset involves believing you must be perfect or you’ve failed completely.
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
This DBT distress tolerance skill encourages changing body chemistry through temperature, intense exercise, paced breathing, and progressive relaxation.
What is TIPP?
This disorder involves difficulties with attention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity.
What is attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
This therapy approach focuses on exploring how past experiences and unconscious thoughts affect current behavior.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
Getting enough of this each night is one of the best ways to support mental health.
What is sleep?
This term describes the mental habit of assuming the worst possible outcome.
What is catastrophizing?
This coping strategy involves intentionally replacing negative or unhelpful thoughts with more balanced and realistic ones.
What is cognitive restructuring/reframing?
This personality disorder often involves intense emotions, fear of abandonment, and difficulty with relationships.
What is borderline personality disorder (BPD)?
This evidence-based treatment helps people process traumatic memories through guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation.
What is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)?
It is the type of stress that becomes overwhelming, harmful, or unmanageable.
What is distress?
This mindset focuses on learning, effort, and improvement rather than perfection.
What is a growth mindset?