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These are used to reduce stress and improve mental wellness
What are coping skills?
Someone with this diagnosis feels very sad, has difficulty thinking clearly, may lack motivation, neglect their ADL's, and isolate from others.
What is Depression
These are prolonged and recurrent, impair activities of daily living, and require long term treatment.
What are persistent symptoms?
This type of therapy provides coping skills in distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and mindfulness
What is DBT or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
Name the three main communication styles. Can you provide another that some include as a style?
What are assertive, aggressive, passive? And passive aggressive.
As defined by the DSM-5 these include capgras, cotard, control, grandiosity, guilt, thought insertion, thought broadcasting, persecution, poverty, reference, religious, somatic etc.
What are delusional themes?
Characterized by inflexible and atypical patterns of thinking feeling behaving. Hint: there are 3 clusters that include 10 specific disorders.
What is a Personality Disorder?
A period of abnormally elevated, extreme changes in your mood or emotions, energy level or activity level. Other indicators may include risk taking behaviors, rapid speech and inflated self-esteem.
What is mania?
As demonstrated in "Inside Out 2" these include anxiety, envy, embarrassment, and boredom.
What are complex emotions?
This refers to negative attitudes, prejudice, or false beliefs associated with specific traits, circumstances, or health symptoms/diagnoses.
What is stigma?
What is self-awareness?
This illness includes rituals, compulsions, and obsessions. It is categorized as an anxiety disorder.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling, or smelling something that is not there.
What is a hallucination?
Struggling to accept something that seems overwhelming or stressful. Signs of this include refusing to talk about the problem, justify behavior, blame others, etc.
What is denial?
This is the number of people who have a mental health disorder in the United States. Hint: answer can be # in # of people or a percent.
What is 1 in 5 Americans (20%)?
In the movie Inside Out 2 we saw Riley's character develop these. Examples include "I am a good person", "I am a good friend", "I love my family", "I am a good hockey player", and eventually "If I am a good hockey player, I will make friends."
What are core beliefs?
This diagnosis includes experiencing moods that alternate between depression and elation or mania
What is Bi-polar Disorder
When a person is unaware of their condition and unable to accept it. About 40% of people with bipolar disorder and 50% of those with schizophrenia have it. Some psychiatrists believe the numbers are even higher.
What is anosognosia?
A self-conscious emotion, which informs us of an internal state of inadequacy, unworthiness, dishonor, regret, or disconnection.
This is something that causes an intense, negative emotional reaction; an painful memory to resurface, or a substance use urge to happen.
What is a trigger?
In the movie Inside Out 2, during a hockey game, Riley tolerated the anxiety, breathed through it, felt objects near her to ground and become more present, what was happening to her in this moment?
What is a panic attack?
This disorder makes it very difficult for the individual to know the difference between what is real and what is not real. It may include hallucinations and delusions.
What is Schizophrenia?
This happens when a person with a substance use disorder returns to using a substance after abstaining for a period of time
What is relapse?
This diagnosis is when a person sees their body in an unrealistic way
What is body dysmorphic disorder
These thought processes distort reality in negative ways, leading us to think unclearly and make poor decisions.
What are cognitive distortions?