Distress Tolerance Skills
The name of the website designed to support individuals at risk of suicide.
This technique helps us gradually feel more comfortable with events that trigger a trauma response or anxiety.
Exposure Hierarchy
This is the practice of taking action to preserve your own mental health and well-being. It can consist of tending to yourself physically (exercise, eating right, getting enough sleep, doing a face mask) or engaging in hobbies (reading, writing, listening to music)
What is self-care?
Putting off tasks, engaging in other activities
Procrastination
What two words contain the most letters?
Post Office
This model describes Linehan's Theory of Emotion Dysregulation by demonstrating response time to a triggering event.
Stress Model
This type of anxiety consists of fears of being judged and evaluated negatively by others, leading to anxious feelings about interacting with others
What is social anxiety?
This is the percent of individuals with anxiety that actually get help and receive treatment
What is 36.9% ?
Shutting down feelings to provide relief from stress and anxiety.
Emotional numbing
I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
A candle.
By submerging your face in this for up to 30 seconds, you can shock your body, triggering it to cool off and calm down.
Ice cold water
This type of anxiety consists of recurring, unpleasant thoughts. As an attempt to try and reduce anxiety, individuals with this disorder may develop repetitive, time-consuming behaviors
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Two types of beverages that can worsen anxiety.
What is alcoholic beverages and caffeinated beverages?
Extreme and ongoing focus on “depressive symptoms and on the implications of those symptoms”
Rumination
Clara Clatter was born on December 27th, yet her birthday is always in the summer. How is this possible?
She lived in the Southern Hemisphere
Examples of this skill include identifying the clothing people are wearing, identifying smells and sounds around you, a paying attention to what is going on in the present moment around you.
Mindfulness
This type of anxiety results from experiencing or witnessing one or more dangerous or terrifying event
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
What is a variety of reactions that may surface as an individual makes sense of how a loss affects him or her
Stages of Grief
Unwelcome or involuntary ideas and thoughts that may be upsetting and difficult to manage
If you have it, you want to share it. If you share it, you don't have it. What is it?
A secret.
By expanding your belly and lungs when paced breathing, you are triggering this to make your parasympathetic nervous system jump into action and reduce arousal over time.
Vagus nerve or vagal response
75% of adults with anxiety experience anxiety by this age
What is 22 years old?
Acts of Service, Words of Affirmation, Physical Touch, Quality Time and Gift Giving are examples of these
The 5 Love Languages
Becoming a work-a-holic, living life more carelessly than ever before
Avoidance
What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?
A chalkboard