Coping Strategies
A type of physical coping strategy.
What is exercise?
A type of attitude to use when helping a friend with a mental illness.
A non-judgmental attitude.
This is one of the most common health conditions within the United States.
What is a mental illness?
A counselor that specializes in addiction typically involving substance abuse or gambling.
A type of treatment that is giving to individuals that have a chemical imbalance or used with talk therapy for better results.
What is medication?
A type of coping strategy that focuses on your breathing.
What is meditation?
Name one way to support a loved one with a mental illness.
What is educating yourself, seeking out resources/support, or working with loved ones care team?
A disorder that causes constant, excessive, unrealistic, worry and attention. Symptoms include fatigue, back pain, irritability, restlessness and a lack of concentration.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This is a type of counselor that focuses on crises of faith, marriage and family counseling, and other emotional problems within a spiritual context.
What is a religious or pastoral counselor?
Types of self-care that help to prevent mental illness or an increase in symptoms.
What is getting enough sleep, eating healthy, regularly exercising, and fostering good friendships?
A type of creative writing or expressive coping strategy.
What is writing in a journal?
A word used to describe "putting yourself in another's shoes."
What is Empathy?
A disorder characterized by periods or cycles of depressive and manic episodes.
What is bipolar disorder?
This professional helps with personal and social problems such as housing, substance abuse, unemployment or financial benefits. They work with individual, groups, and families.
What is a social worker?
A type of group that meets in private to discuss a certain issue such as domestic violence, grief, suicide, or Alzheimer's disease. This group is facilitated by a professional, but is made up of community members.
What is a support group?
A state where you feel calm and manage stress of anxiety.
What is relaxation?
A simple but effective way to provide comfort and understanding to a friend in need.
What is listening?
Symptoms of this disorder include sleep disturbances, changes in appetite, loss of interested in activities, irritability, sadness, or thoughts of suicide.
What is Depression?
A type of mental health professional that treats mental illnesses and holds a Ph.D. They specialize in the science of behaviors, emotions, and thoughts. This professional can not prescribe medications.
What is a psychologist?
May be medically necessary so that the individual can be closely monitored and accurately diagnosed, have their medications adjusted or stabilized, or be monitored during an acute episode when their mental illness temporarily worsens.
What is hospitalization?
A type of coping strategy that focuses on the present moment and bringing attention to the 5 senses.
What is mindfulness?
This is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States.
What is suicide?
A possible cause of mental illness.
What are biological factors, ACES, trauma, chronic medical conditions, substance abuse, or isolation?
What is a psychiatrist?
Learning to recognize early signs and symptoms is helpful for?
What is relapse prevention?