Skills That Chill
This kind of skill helps to reduce stress/worry.
What is a coping skill?
Being close to family, having good friends, and being a part of a strong community creates this kind of habit for mental health.
What is Healthy (habit)?
Healthy eating, regular exercise and ________ are health habits for mental health.
What is sleep?
These can provide a distraction from painful emotions-- a type of coping skill.
What is a hobby (engaging in a hobby)?
Being too focused on one's school/work can create problems in relationships and is said to be an imbalance in this...
What is work/life balance?
A relaxation technique in which the individual takes slow, deep breaths, using the abdominal muscles, to help them relax.
What is deep breathing?
This process involves a way to reflect your thoughts and feelings about a situation/relationship-- in particular when you don't have a person to connect with.
What is journaling?
An inability to sleep at night, due to stress, racing thoughts or general worry is best described as this.
What are sleep problems?
These include racing heart, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, feeling faint, fear of “going crazy”, fear of dying, and more.
What are panic attacks?
When a person is feeling a lot of anxiety about something highly unlikely to occur, this person can be described as struggling with these.What are irrational thoughts (irrational thinking)?
What are irrational thoughts (irrational thinking)?
Going to talk with this kind of person is also a type of coping skill.
What is a therapist (psychologist/counselor/psychiatrist)?
DAILY DOUBLE: While this type of strategy can help a person escape anxiety/stress for the moment, it will often worsen the anxiety/stress overall in one's life.
List at least one example of avoidant behavior.
What is avoidance?
The act of breaking overwhelming tasks down into smaller parts.
What is problem-solving?
Taking medications and/or therapy, improves your treatment outcomes for healthy habits for mental health. This is called...?
What is following medical (therapeutic) advice?
A practice of consciously focusing on one's thoughts and feelings while reserving judgments is a coping skill.
What is meditation (mindfulness practice)?
Isolating oneself from social situations may be a form of avoidance, such as in cases of social anxiety. This is called an...
What is an unhealthy coping skill?
Insomnia is this kind of problem.
What is a sleep disorder?
Excessive dwelling on negative thoughts, or excessive worrying.
What is rumination (ruminating)?
Imaging oneself in a relaxing/soothing setting in your mind, free from worries and distractions is this kind of coping skill.
What is imagery (guided imagery)?
Using these have a way of masking our worries/anxieties as well as leading to dependency, often creating other unintended problems in relationships, school, work, and/or communities.
What are drugs (drugs and/or alcohol)?
When a person's body gears up, often triggering adrenaline, to get away or confront something they are said to be experiencing this.
What is fight-or-flight response?
DAILY DOUBLE: "4-7-8 Breathing" is this kind of skill; Also, you have to be able to describe what the numbers mean.
What is a coping (mindfulness) skill?
(inhale through nose 4 seconds; hold for 7 seconds, and slowly exhale for 8 seconds)
This is what can happen when a person develops a fear of leaving his or her home makes socializing nearly impossible.
What is social isolation?
Name at least 3 symptoms (signs) of anxiety.
What are?: Poor Concentration; Increased Heart Rate; Sleep Problems; Irritability; Sweating; Overwhelmed; Trembling; Fatigue; Nausea / Upset Stomach; Rapid Breathing; Frequent Worrying
Consciously tensing and relaxing your muscles is a coping skill called...
What is progressive muscle relaxation?