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Limits and rules we set for ourselves within relationships.
What are boundaries
____________ help you tolerate, minimize, and deal with anxiety, anger and depression.
What are coping skills/grounding techniques/de-escalation techniques
A person prioritizes the needs, wants and feelings of others, even at their own expense. The person does not express their own needs, or does not stand up for them.
What is a passive communicator
Intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations.
What is anxiety
A practice that enables more air to flow into your body and can help calm your nerves, reducing stress and anxiety
What is deep breathing
A stimulus--such as a person, place, situation, or thing--that contributes to an unwanted emotional or behavioral response.
What is a trigger
The abilities you use when giving and receiving different kinds of information in an appropriate manner.
What are communication skills
A person expresses that only their own needs, wants, and feelings matter. The other person is bullied, and their needs are ignored.
What is aggressive communcator
A mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest
What is depression
Identifying a noun for each letter of the alphabet (A-Z) until individual becomes calm and/or stable
What is categorizing
A person’s most central ideas about themselves, others, and the world.
What are core beliefs
A type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps people learn how to identify and change destructive or disturbing thought patterns that have a negative influence on behavior and emotions
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
A person stands up for their own needs, wants, and feelings, but also listens to and respects the needs of others.
What is an assertive communicator
A person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
What is PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)
The process or skill of applying a substance to something so as to change its original color
What is coloring
A state of nonjudgmental awareness of what’s happening in the present moment, including the awareness of one’s own thoughts, feelings, and senses
What is mindfulness
Can be useful in treating mood disorders, suicidal ideation, and for change in behavioral patterns such as self-harm and substance use
What is DBT
An assertive communicator frequently interrupts and does not listen.
What is false.
A disorder associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs.
What is bipolar I disorder
Process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight
What is reading
Appreciating the good things in your life, no matter how big or small.
What is gratitude
A structured therapy that encourages the patient to briefly focus on the trauma memory while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), which is associated with a reduction in the vividness and emotion associated with the trauma memories
What is EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
A passive communicator has poor eye contact and has low self-esteem.
What is true
A mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships.
What is borderline personality disorder
A practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
What is meditation