Mental Health Disorders
This disorder has many days of severe sadness, possibly causing suicidal thoughts
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This therapy encourages you to challenge your thoughts or change your behavior in order to change you feelings?
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
"I've had a headache. It's really bad. I think I have a brain tumor."
"The problem wasn't that hard. Anyone could've done it."
This practice involves paying attention to the present moment, without judgment, by focusing on your thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations.
What is Mindfulness?
A persistent, strong, irrational fear about a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
This therapy was designed to help people manage and regulate their emotions. It incorporates emotion regulation, mindfulness, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
"I know I'm going to blow this job interview."
What is Fortune Telling?
"I was so mad. I wished she would get hurt, and now she did. It's my fault."
What is Radical Acceptance?
This disorder has persistent and intrusive thoughts, followed by repetitive behaviors.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
This therapy helps people resolve their ambivalence about changing a specific behavior by exploring and resolving their uncertainties.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
"He thinks I'm ugly."
"I feel stupid; therefore, I am stupid."
What is Emotional Reasoning?
This skill utilizes change in temperature, engaging in intense exercise, practices progressive muscle relaxation, or using paced breathing.
What is temperature, intense exercise, progressive muscle relaxation, paced breathing?
This disorder has excessive and persistent worry and anxiety about a variety of situations.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This therapy is designed to help people confront and overcome their fears and anxieties through gradual and repeated therapeutic interventions.
What is Exposure Therapy?
"I should call my family more often."
What are Should Statements?
"The receptionist was short with me because I did something wrong."
What is Personalization?
Using words like "and, both," avoiding words like "always, must, never," and checking your assumptions.
What is "acting dialectically?"
This disorder is characterized by a major mood episode and delusions or hallucinations in the absence of the major mood episode.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This therapy utilizes bilateral stimulation to help people recover from trauma.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing?
"I haven't exercised at all this week. I might as well not start today."
"I spilled my drink. I am SUCH A LOSER!"
What is Labeling?
Utilizing Mindfulness, Kindness, and Common Humanity to increase resilience, reduce anxiety, and have greater life satisfaction.
What is Self-Compassion?