Managing Thoughts & Emotions
a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing their mind on a particular object, thought or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state
What is meditation
A chronic mental health condition characterized primarily by symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations or delusions, and symptoms of a mood disorder, such as mania and depression.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder
Being able to stand up for your own or other people’s rights in a calm and positive way, without being either aggressive; getting your point across without upsetting others, or becoming upset
What is assertiveness
The art and practice of staying fully present in the moment which helps quiet our brain and gives us more peace.
What is Mindfulness
1 in 5 adults in the U.S.—43.8 million, or 18.5%—experiences this in a given year
What is mental health issues
deep breathing, hitting the pause button, walking away, visualization, journaling, exercising
What are anger management techniques, or what are coping skills
Symptoms of: feeling very “up,” “high,” or elated, having lots of energy, feeling “jumpy” or “wired”, decreased need for sleep, talking really fast about a lot different things, inflated self-esteem or grandiosity, excessive involvement in risk activities, flight of ideas and racing thoughts
What is a manic episode
the use of humiliation, degradation, judging, criticizing; and the use of domination, control and manipulation in a relationship
What is emotional abuse
The goal of identifying and preventing high-risk situations and triggers such as substance abuse, risky behaviors, and toxic relationships that can cause someone to decline or regress
What is Relapse Prevention
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Who are movie stars with bipolar disorder
A type of thought distortion where you blow things out of proportion, or think the worst case scenario
What is Catastrophic Thinking
A mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The tendency to put others’ needs before your own. You accommodate the other to such a degree that you tend to discount or ignore your own feelings, desires, and basic needs. Your self-esteem depends largely on how well you please, take care of and/or solve problems for someone else (or many others).
What is codependency
Having friends and other people, including family, to turn to in times of need or crisis to help you and provide a buffer against adverse life events.
What is social support
A type of therapy that helps you become aware of inaccurate or negative thinking so you can view challenging situations more clearly and respond to them in a more effective way.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
When you see things in black and white categories. If a situation falls short of perfect, you see it as a total failure. When you go on a diet, and then eat a spoonful of ice and tell yourself, 'I've blown my diet completely so I might as well eat the whole gallon of ice cream.'
What is All or Nothing Thinking
A condition where a person has a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as pain, weakness or shortness of breath, that results in major distress and/or problems functioning. They have excessive thoughts, feelings and behaviors relating to the physical symptoms. The physical symptoms may or may not be associated with a diagnosed medical condition, but the person is experiencing symptoms and believes they are sick (that is, not faking the illness).
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder
someone who has grandiose sense of self, lacks empathy for other people, needs excessive admiration; needs to be right at all time, manipulative, and arrogant.
What is a narcissist
Healthy parameters in a relationship; limits to what is acceptable or can be tolerated in a relationship.
What are boundaries
What is looking at the situation from another point of view and changing your emotional response?
What is reframing
A form of emotional acupressure, which involves tapping on endpoints of meridians of our body while saying certain statements, and helps to reduce and/or eliminate negative thoughts and feelings
What is Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or tapping
a mental process of disconnecting from one's thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity.
What is dissociation
A manipulation tactic in which a person, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality/sanity. Examples include: lying to you, trying to align people against you, attempting to confuse you, denying they ever said something, even though you have proof.
What is gaslighting
A person's principles or standards; one's judgment of what is important in life
What are values
This is the third most common cause of hospitalization in the U.S. for both youth and adults aged 18–44. (source: NAMI)
What are mood disorders (bipolar disorder, major depression and dysthymia)