Healthy Coping Skills
What is a coping skill?
Strategies to manage unpleasant emotions.
Anything that helps you manage a situation that is not harmful to yourself or others
What does PTSD stand for?
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
What is the difference between a lapse and a relapse?
While a lapse is short-lived, a relapse entails the loss of recovery gains already made, which means the person falls back into using the unwanted substance or engaging in the undesired behavior.
What is a boundary?
The limits and rules we set for ourselves within relationships.
In other words: what is acceptable vs unacceptable for me in a relationship?
This singer enjoys moped rides downtown, thrifting, and feeling glorious after coming back from a relapse.
Macklemore
He recounts his alcohol addition as it quickly took over his life and almost cost him his career as a rapper. He said it began as a teen and quickly took over his daily life. He tried and failed to get sober several times but was unsuccessful. He also began taking painkillers such as OxyContin. He was eventually able to seek rehab assistance and is now back on track and better than ever
Healthy coping skills help us...
a.) Deal with stressors in our lives
b.) Work through our emotions and problems
c.) Process our thoughts and emotions
d.) All of the above
d.) All of the above
Using healthy coping skills allow us to take a minute and process what is happening with our emotions, stressors, thoughts, and problems.
True or False? Everyone who has experienced a traumatic event will develop PTSD?
False!
While risk factors increase a person’s likelihood of developing PTSD, resilience factors decrease the likelihood. Having multiple resilience factors can help protect you from developing PTSD after a traumatic event.
Resilience factors include:
Getting social support from loved ones or joining a support group
Finding positive ways to cope with the traumatic event, such as art-based therapies like reading, writing, or music
Learning to manage emotions such as fear
Avoiding unhelpful coping mechanisms, such as misusing substances or pulling away from other people
Reaching out for professional mental health support if needed
One study found that hope, optimism, and feeling confident in your abilities may help prevent PTSD. Working with a mental healthcare provider can help you find ways to build your confidence and sense of well-being.
Name at least 3 recovery groups?
Substance Abuse Recovery Support Groups Include:
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Alanon
Alcoholics Anonymous
Cocaine Anonymous
Computer Gaming Addicts Anonymous
Double Trouble in Recovery
Gamblers Anonymous
Marijuana Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous
SMART Recovery
True or False.
One of the biggest challenges that people have with boundaries is figuring out what to do when someone repeatedly violates them.
True!
This rapper has a reputation as a strong, opinionated rapper who isn’t afraid to get the heart of a subject.
Eminem
He is now healthy and in April of 2018, he celebrated over 10 years of sobriety thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous
What is mindfulness? Give one example
Mindfulness is when you center yourself in the present moment.
Examples: It can be done through meditation, relaxation exercises, breathing exercises or just simply slowing down and taking notice of things that are currently around you (leaves on a stream)
When did PTSD become an official diagnosis?
There was no official diagnosis for PTSD before it was added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association in 1980.
What is cross addiction?
Replacing one addiction for another
(example: I am no longer drinking, but now I spend all my money on shoes)
What are the 3 types of boundaries?
Rigid, porous, healthy
Most recently in his hit movie “A Star Is Born” the actor had to rely on his past experience with addiction to round out his character’s performance. In an article posted in Variety Magazine, he discussed his own personal battle with alcoholism that nearly ended in suicide.
Bradley Cooper
Name at least 5 health coping skills YOU use?
ANY!
How many people in the United States have PTSD at any given time?
Around 5% (more than 13 million people!)
Approxamitely how many people in the United States have a substance use disorder?
20 million!
What is codependency in a relationship?
This late actor was frequently seen in Disney movies both live action and as a voice actor.
He abused cocaine and alcohol throughout the 1980s. He also suffered from depression.
Robin Williams
What are 3 emotions that may lead to poor coping skills?
Anger
Sadness
Anxiety
Jealousy
Depression
Guilt
PTSD is viewed as a "normal" response to "______" events.
PTSD is viewed as a "normal" response to "abnormal" events.
Name the stages of change?
Precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance (lapse/relapse)
Name at least 2 "fair" fighting rules?
1. Ask yourself why you're upset
2. Discuss one topic at a time
3. No degrading language!
4. Use "I" statements
5. Take turns speaking
6. No stonewalling
7. Take a time out if things get too heated
8. Try to compromise!
This stand up comedian got his start on SNL, and helped create the TV show Big Mouth with friend Nick Kroll.
He said in one performance: “I quit drinking ’cause I used to drink too much, and then I would black out and I would ‘ruin’ parties, or so I’m told,” he shared at the time. “When you do that enough, when you black out drinking and you do crazy things you kind of become, like, Michael Jackson. Like, any story anyone says about you might be true, and even you don’t know by the end.”
This comedian checked into rehab at the beginning of 2020 to address alcohol and cocaine addiction.
John Mulaney