Anxiety
This physical symptom of anxiety can feel like your heart is racing even when you're not moving.
What is an elevated heart rate?
This symptom makes activities that used to be enjoyable feel uninteresting, tiresome, or exhausting.
What is loss of interest or anhedonia?
This practice involves setting limits to protect your time, energy, and emotional well being.
What is setting boundaries?
This breathing technique uses equal counts for inhaling, holding, exhaling, and holding again?
What is box or controlled breathing?
This type of exercise reduces anxiety by releasing endorphins.
What is aerobic exercise?
This thinking pattern involves imagining the worst possible outcome or scenario.
What is Catastrophizing?
This type of tiredness does not get better or improve, even after a full night of restful sleep.
What is emotional exhaustion?
This type of self-care involves actions such as journaling, positive self talk/affirmations, therapy, or talking with someone in your support system.
What is Emotional Self Care?
This practice reduces stress by focusing attention on the present moment.
What is mindfulness?
This gentle movement practice combines stretching, breathing, and balance.
What is yoga?
This grounding technique uses your senses to identify five things you see, four things you can touch, three things hear, two things you smell, and one thing you taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 method?
This cognitive thinking pattern focuses only on negative details while ignoring the positives.
What is negative filtering?
This daily habit, usually done at night, stabilizes mood, improves focus, and regulates stress hormones.
What is consistent sleep?
This time management method uses focused work intervals followed by short breaks.
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
This simple activity improves mood even when done for just ten (10) minutes.
What is walking?
This every day form of anxiety makes routine tasks feel overwhelming.
What is Generalized Anxiety?
This form of depression occurs during certain seasons, most often winter.
What is seasonal affective disorder?
This strategy reduces overwhelm by breaking large tasks into smaller ones or smaller steps.
What is task chunking?
This cognitive skill lowers stress by challenging unhelpful thoughts.
What is cognitive reframing?
This strength-building activity helps regulate stress hormones.
What is resistance training?
This type of fear response is triggered by situations that feel dangerous even when they are not.
What is a false alarm response?
This term describes slowed thinking, movement, and speech.
What is psychomotor retardation?
This self-care approach involves intentionally planning activities that restore your mental and emotional balance.
What is proactive self care or behavior activation?
This relaxation method involves tensing and releasing muscle groups to reduce stress.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This .activity, often done to music, boosts mood and supports emotional regulation
What is dancing?