Symptoms
A condition in which you have a period of abnormally elevated, extreme changes in your mood or emotions, energy level or activity level.
What is mania?
Something that affects your emotional state, often significantly, by causing extreme overwhelm or distress
What is a trigger?
This is an unwanted thing that pops into your head.
What is an intrusive thought?
This is a tactic where you are supposed to freeze, take a step back, consider the situation, and continue mindfully.
What is STOP?
What is the emergency department?
If you are feeling this way, you may be feeling nervous, tense, and restless.
What is anxious/anxiety?
This is something that can assist you in overcoming or dealing with a mental health issue/crisis.
What is a coping skill?
Something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.
What is value?
This is the T in TIPS.
What is "Tip the Temperature" or utilize cold water to calm down fast?
This is a person who can prescribe medications and determine the best interventions for illnesses, including mental health issues.
Physician
Characteristics of this may be issues with sleep, appetite, energy level, concentration, daily behavior, or self-esteem.
What is depression?
This is where you breath in for four seconds, hold it for four seconds, breath out for four seconds, and then hold that for four seconds.
What is box breathing?
This is a tactic where you break up your response to a situation by looking at the thought, behavior, and emotion related to an event/crisis.
What is a cognitive triangle?
This is the "A" in ACCEPTS as a tactic to distract yourself from a crisis.
What is Activites?
This is a person who can assist you by providing different types of therapy.
What is a counselor/therapist/psychologist?
The inability to control wants or desires.
What is impulsivity?
These unhelpful thinking styles that can lead to further issues with self-esteem/self-confidence.
What is cognitive distortions/thinking traps?
This is an exercise where you can identify a thought, determine the cognitive distortion, and reframe the thought.
What is a thought record/triple column technique?
Similar to CBT's grounding, this is something you can do to exercise relaxing by using your five senses.
What is Self-Soothing?
This is something you can do to assist you with avoiding a mental health issue or not letting it take center stage.
What is a healthy distraction?
Hearing voices or seeing things that are not there.
What is hallucinations?
This is a safe place where people can anonymously speak about their addiction to substances.
Thoughts that happen so quickly that we may fail to even to notice them.
What are automatic thoughts?
This is the opposite of distress, meaning stress that results in a positive event/feeling.
This is something that is prescribed by your physician to use as needed in case of a mental health crisis.
What is a as-needed/PRN medication?