Coping Mechanisms (good and poor)
Acting Out
Acting Out is performing an extreme behavior in order to express thoughts or feelings the person feels incapable of otherwise expressing
Roughly a third of your life should be spent doing this
Sleeping
Meditate, listen to music, breathe, exercise, walk, art, talk therapy, reframing, distracting.
Additional answers also accepted.
How stress can be helpful
Turn it into productive action; Motivation
3 groups or treatments available at PSI.
Art Group, Writing group, health group, TG support group, individual counseling, psychiatry and medication management.
Other answers also accepted.
Denial
Denial is the refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist.
A legal drug best consumed in moderation or not all.
Caffeine
When to use meditation and breathing techniques
Very regularly, not only when you feel stress. Use them regularly so that your mind and body don't associate the breathing techniques with the stressor or feeling of stress.
2 problem solving strategies
Ask for help, do your research, make a plan and keep organized.
Additional answers also accepted.
How spirituality can help
Community, belief system, reframing of challenges
Additional answers also accepted
Projection
Projection is the misattribution of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings, or impulses onto another person who does not have those thoughts, feelings or impulses.
How avoiding procrastination helps ward off stress
Tight deadlines and missed appointment cause stress. Developing an organizational system can help you stick to a timeline and goals.
3 ways of coping with stressors
Avoid, address, ask for help, make a plan, listen to music, meditate.
Additional answers also accepted.
How talking about your stress and stressors can help.
Build community, feel understood, build connections, reduce loneliness.
Note: loneliness can impair health by raising levels of stress hormones and inflammation, which in turn can increase the risk of heart disease, arthritis, Type 2 diabetes, dementia and even suicide attempts.
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Sublimation
Sublimation is simply the channeling of unacceptable impulses, thoughts and emotions into more acceptable ones.
Nutrition for stress management
A balanced diet.
Fruits, vegetables, whole grains. Avoid added sugar, processed foods, soda and alcohol.
Activity that burns off the stress hormone adrenaline
What is exercise
Way to reframe stresses to reduce stress and help make you productive
focus on controllables
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - psychotherapy that focuses on solutions and identifying harmful thoughts, assessing whether they are an accurate depiction of reality, and challenging thoughts that are not.
Displacement
Displacement is the redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses directed at one person or object, but taken out upon another person or object. People often use displacement when they cannot express their feelings in a safe manner to the person they are directed at.
How water can help prevent stress.
Dehydration leads to a rise in your stress hormone, cortisol.
Four "As" of stress management
Avoid, alter, adapt, accept
3 ways to alter and adapt a stressful situation
Alter: Change the way you communicate, express your feelings, compromise, keep yourself busy, create a balanced schedule
Adapt: reframe problems, look at the big picture, adjust your expectations, practice gratitude
ECT
Electroconvulsive therapy - small electric currents are passed through the brain, intentionally triggering a brief seizure. Can quickly change brain chemistry and help treat mental illnesses like depression.