Stress Management
This active stress Management tool helps by boosting endorphins, serves as distraction, and can help with sleep.
What is exercise?
In Inside Out, this is the emotion that helps keep Riley safe.
What is fear?
This is the most common of mental health disorders.
What is anxiety disorders?
Identifying an emotion to decrease the intensity of it is a strategy known as...
"Name it to Tame it"
The vocabulary word for something that causes stress.
What is a stressor?
This tool is a great way to stop "over-thinking" at night, by getting your thoughts down on the pages.
What is journaling?
These two feelings show up in both the body, and in the brain, in the exact same manner.
What is nervousness and excitement.
This mental health disorder is characterized by unwanted, intrusive thoughts and a strong urge to engage in repetitive behaviors, often to prevent a feared event.
What is OCD (Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder)?
In the "Ride the Wave" technique, the 2nd step of the process is to....
Accept the feeling without judgement.
The stress response that prepares your body to "attack" the threat is known as.
Fight
Examples of this stress Management tool include: Mindfulness, Loving-Kindness, and Guided.
What is meditation?
This emotion lets us know when a boundary has been crossed or when we perceive something to be unfair.
What is anger?
This mental health disorder is often triggered by witnessing a terrifying, life threatening event.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Doing this with your emotions will actually make the feeling stronger..
What is suppressing or pushing them away
The stress response that creates the urge to hide or stay perfectly still.
What is Freeze?
This is the body's main "fight or flight" hormone.
What is cortisol?
This is emotion is described as an intense feeling of sadness in relation to losing someone or something.
What is grief?
A severe mental health disorder characterized by hallucinations, potential for hearing voices, delusions, and paranoia.
What is schizophrenia?
This type of thought is immediate, spontaneous, and reactive. Can be helpful or hurtful.
What is an "automatic" thought.
This stress response is associated with people- pleasing. It's related to the strategy of "playing dead" in the face of danger.
What is "fawn"?
This "feel good" chemical is released when we spend meaningful time with people we care about. It's known as the "cuddle" hormone and helps battle stress.
What is oxytocin?
Described as a mix of wonder, reverence (respect), and slight fear, this emotion will give you the "Whoa" response.
What is awe?
This mental health disorder is characterized by excessive mood swings- very high energy, racing thoughts, lots of confidence, and then very low energy, feelings of depression, and hopelessness.
What is bipolar disorder?
This common behavior during sadness acts as a relief for physical and emotional pain by lowering cortisol levels. It's linked to faster healing of trauma.
What is crying?
What is the amygdala?