Self-Care
What is self-care?
Activities that you can do to promote overall well-being
What are coping skills?
The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.
What is depression?
constant feeling of sadness and loss of interest, which stops you doing your normal activities
What is anxiety?
Intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Fast heart rate, rapid breathing, sweating, and feeling tired may occur.
What are psychotropic medications?
medications are used to treat mental health disorders.
What is required from you to practice self-care?
Learning how to put yourself first
Give me an example of a time that you used coping skills and tell me how it turned out in the end.
Give an example and the results of using the coping skill
What can cause someone to be depressed?
upsetting or stressful life event, such as bereavement, divorce, illness, redundancy and job or money worries, can be the cause
What are some symptoms of anxiety?
Why is it important to use psychotropic medications?
Helps to reduce the intensity of symptoms.
IT DOES NOT COMPLETELY MAKE YOUR SYMPTOMS GO AWAY
Why is self-care so important?
Promote positive effects on mental and physical well-being
Why are coping skills important?
help you tolerate, minimize, and deal with stressful situations in life
Tell me a time when you were depressed and what caused you to be depressed?
True/False: A person with panic disorder may feel terror even if there is no real danger
True
True/False: People should only use psychotropic medication only to treat their mental health conditions
False- Everyone should use a combination of therapy and coping skills with their medication to get the best results.
Give me an example of how you practice self-care and tell me how it makes you feel.
Any example of self-care with a feeling
List some examples of coping skills
Deep breathing, talking to your support system, self-care, exercising, listening to music, dancing, STOP, leaving a negative situation
What are the 3 Cs of Depression?
Catch it, Check it, Change it
What are some coping skills to address symptoms of anxiety?
Relaxation techniques, yoga, meditation, deep breathing, stress management and exercise
What is the definition of side effects of psychotropic medications?
a secondary, typically undesirable effect of a drug
What are five different types of self-care?
physical, social, mental, spiritual and emotional
What are the 4 As of coping?
avoid, alter, adapt or accept
How can someone use the 3 Cs (Catch it, Check it, Change it) to change or decreased their depressive moods?
Catch it- Identify the thought that came before the emotion
Check it- Reflect on how accurate or useful the thought is
Change it-Change the thought to a more accurate or helpful one as needed
Catch it- "I am stupid cause I failed the test"
Check it- I have passed tests in the past.
Change it- My thought is not accurate, because I am not stupid for failing this one test it means that I need to either study more or ask for help in this subject
Tell me a time when you were anxious and ways that you coped with it.
Give an example and coping skill
What are some reasons people have a hard time with taking psychotropic medications?
Fear, Cost, Misunderstanding, Culture, Spiritual beliefs, Too many medications, fear of side effects, fear of what others judgement, Lack of symptoms, Mistrust, Worry and depression