Let's Feel it Out
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is True?
Name two healthy coping skills
Deep breathing, grounding techniques, positive affirmations, challenging thought distortions, journaling, meditation, exercise, urge surfing ect....
True or False:
SMART goals help to make tasks more difficult by making tasks more complicated
What is False
What are 3 things you can do to maintain your mental health progress?
Attend therapy and medical appointments regularly, medication compliance, mental health apps, peer support groups, balance self-care, community support programs, stay connected to others, ask for help.
What is the only bird that can fly backwards?
What is a hummingbird?
A sudden feeling of acute and disabling anxiety; intense fear or anxiety along with physical symptoms
What is a panic attack?
An ancient system of practices used to balance the mind and body through exercise, meditation (focusing thoughts), and control of breathing and emotions.
What is Yoga?
What does CBT stand for?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Where can you go for support in a crisis?
What is any hospital ER, supportive family/friends, crisis hotline?
What is the only part of the body that cannot heal itself?
What are teeth?
What is Mindfullness?
The act of staying in the present moment.
Accepting things that we cannot change, despite feeling unhappy about it.
What is Radical Acceptance?
Give one example of using an "I statement"
“I feel frustrated when the kitchen is left messy because it makes it harder for me to cook.
“I feel overwhelmed when plans change at the last minute because I need time to prepare.
“I feel hurt when I’m interrupted while speaking because it makes me feel like my thoughts aren’t important.
This is when a person is viewed in a negative way for having a mental health diagnosis
What is stigma?
What continent has area in all four hemispheres?
What is Africa?
This type of meditation is where you work on tensing different parts of your body:
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
What does DBT stand for?
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
What is the difference between guilt and shame?
Guilt- I made a mistake
Shame- I am a mistake
What does the acronym EAP stand for?
Employee Assistance Program
What was Disney's first animated feature film?
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?
When you are afraid, face your fears; when you are angry, take deep breaths; when you are sad, do light exercise. This is an example of what?
What is Opposite Action?
The act of balancing the emotional mind and the reasonable mind to come to a balanced decision.
What is Wise Mind?
This is a plan you may develop with a therapist that consists of coping skills, people to call, and emergency phone numbers.
What are safety plans/relapse prevention plans?
What is the term for feeling stressed or anxious but being able to cope and recover?
Resilience
What country chose the unicorn as its national animal?
What is Scotland?