COPING SKILLS
A physical way to get in shape and increase your overall health and wellness.
What is EXERCISE?
What is WORKING OUT?
A therapeutic technique rooted in the idea that creative expression can foster healing and mental well-being.
An anxiety disorder which causes distressing, intrusive, obsessive thoughts and repetitive, compulsive physical or mental acts.
What is OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)?
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience.
What is TRAUMA?
This revered President of the United States suffered from severe and incapacitating depression that occasionally led to thoughts of suicide, as documented in numerous biographies.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A practice used for thousands of years, to encourage a state of awareness and focused attention.
A mental health clinician who supports clients throughout their recovery with shared understanding, respect, and mutual empowerment.
Who is a Peer Specialist?
A condition that causes prolonged feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed which negatively affects how you feel, think and act.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
What is Dysthymia (dis-THIE-me-uh)?
The body’s natural response to stress which often manifests as a feeling of fear or apprehension.
What is ANXIETY?
A Five time Grammy winner musician, fashion icon and proud symbol for the LGBTQ+ community, who not only suffered addiction to cocaine but is one of the first celebrities to expose his personal 16yr battle with bulimia.
Who is Elton John?
Techniques that help distract from your symptoms and refocus on what’s happening in the present moment.
What is GROUNDING?
A treatment modality that focuses on challenging and changing cognitive distortions and behaviors, improving emotional regulation, and the development of personal coping strategies.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
A mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings of mania and depression.
A dreamlike state when a person feels disconnected from their surroundings.
What is DISASSOCIATION?
An actor who has shared his own experience managing OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), relating to his role in The Aviator as Howard Hughes, who is famously known to have suffered from this anxiety disorder.
Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?
The practice of maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, bodily sensations, and surrounding environment without judgment or expectation.
What is Mindfulness?
Walk-in support, intervention and counseling for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis.
What is a Walk-in-Crisis center?
What is a Behavioral Health Urgent Care?
What is a Mental Health Urgent Care?
A condition that can develop after exposure to something which is beyond a typical stressor (trauma).
What is PTSD?
Prejudiced views based on inaccurate and unfounded thoughts about mental illness creating a negative attitude towards and mistreatment of those who have a mental health diagnoses.
What is Stigma?
A celebrated artist who suffered severe symptoms of bi-polar disorder that lead to self-mutilation and death by suicide. He painted some of his most memorable works during the year he spent at an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
The practice of taking an active role in protecting your own well-being.
What is SELF-CARE?
A mental health clinician who who connects clients to resources that can improve their quality of life such as housing, employment, treatment providers and community services.
A brain-based disorder which causes higher levels of inattention and impulsivity as well as impaired ability to organize, plan, and manage thoughts or actions.
What is ADHD?
A mental state in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
What is PSYCHOSIS?
An American novelist who won both a Pulitzer and Nobel prize in the 50's, suffered from severe depression, paranoid delusions, bipolar disorder, alcoholism and a history of TBI's. He died by suicide in 1961.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?