Coping Skills
All coping skills are healthy.
True/False
What is False?
Give an example of an unhealthy coping skill.
Medication is the only thing that is effective in treating mental health.
True/False
False
Medication can be helpful but used in conjunction with therapy and coping skills provide for the best outcome
After his first performance he was told "you ain't going nowhere son." You need to go back driving a truck.
Who is Elvis Presley?
Anxiety can be helpful
True/False
True
Please provide an example
The reason the chicken was staring at the lettuce.
What is a chicken sees a salad?
I can use any coping skill in any situation.
True/False
False
Give an example.
I am feeling better and my symptoms have improved. Its ok to stop my medication.
True/False
False
His mother died when he was nine. His first love died when he was 26. He suffered such a deep depression that his friends and neighbors worried about him. However, he became one of the most famous presidents in our nation's history.
Abraham Lincoln
All people respond to anxiety in the same way.
True/False
False
Why is a river rich?
It has two banks
Describe the 5 4 3 2 1 coping strategy
This entails using your 5 senses in an effort to ground yourself when feeling stressed, overwhelmed, anxious
5 things you see; 4 things you touch; 3 things you hear; 2 things you smell; 1 thing you taste
What should I do if I think I am having a side effect from my medication?
Talk to my doctor or nurse.
After failing to make his high school's varsity basketball team, he went home, locked himself in his room, and cried.
Michael Jordan
Physical symptoms of anxiety.
What are rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, sweating, headache, restlessness, tremors?
How can you leave a room with 2 legs and return with 6?
Bring a chair with you.
Give an example of positive self-talk.
I am worth it.
I have confidence in myself.
I got this.
People taking the same medications will experience the same side effects.
True/False
False
side effects vary from person to person
Music industry reps told her that she didn't have the right look, wasn't pretty enough to be a headline singer, and that none of the songs she'd written would be hits.
Lady Gaga
Name 2 coping skills that help with anxiety
Music, grounding, meditation, muscle relaxation, deep breathing, counting, talking to someone, going for a walk etc.
The chicken's favorite kind of sneakers.
What is reebok-bok-boks?
This is how you feel about yourself.
What is self-esteem?
What are important things you should know when starting a new medication?
The type of medication, how much you are taking, common side effects and what symptoms is the medication treating.
She was demoted from her first - ever job as a news anchor because, according to her boss, she was too emotional and not a good fit for television.
Oprah
Physiological symptoms of Anxiety.
What are racing thoughts, irritability, poor focus, impatience, fatigue, excessive worry?
They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?
Gloves