Coping Skills
Deep Breathing, Journaling, and Exercise are what?
What are healthy coping skills.
Name 3 types of symptoms for anxiety (mental/psychical).
What is shortness of breath, sweating, dizziness, nausea, brain fog, racing heartbeat, and panic.
Taking medication makes you weak.
FALSE
Who is one of the celebrities we talked about with mental helath issues?
Selena Gomez
Kristen Bell
Taraji p Henson
Evan Rachel Wood
What has a neck but no head?
What is a bottle.
Reframe this thought: I am never going to get better.
I am going to get better!
What should you do the moment you feel a symptom of your anxiety?
identify, name, and cope.
Anxiety can be positive.
TRUE
What are 2 positive things about yourself?
personal answer.
What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
What is your left hand.
Alcohol, Drugs, Isolation, Sleeping too much, and Avoidance are what?
What are unhealthy coping skills.
Panic attacks can often cause a fear of death because they mimic the symptoms of what?
What is a heart attack.
Thoughts are thoughts, not facts.
TRUE
What is the suicide hotline phone number?
What is 988 or texting 741741
What is most useful when it is broken?
What is an egg.
Describe the STOP acronym.
Stop
Take a breath
Observe
Proceed
Name three places in your body you can feel anxiety.
What is my chest, stomach, and head.
Instant fixes for stress exist.
FALSE
What 2 types of beverages will worsen anxiety?
alcohol and caffeine
What goes up but never goes down?
What is your age.
Describe and Demonstrate mindfulness.
5 4 3 2 1
Body Scan
List 3 categories
Mental exercises (counting backwards from 100 by 7 or name family members, their ages, and their favorite color).
When we lack ____, our anxiety symptoms may feel worse.
Anxiety and stress are the same thing
FALSE
anxiety is an emotion
stress is a psychical response to something
What are the 5 areas of life to focus on to prevent anxiety.
Sleep
Diet
Hydration
Movement
Positive affirmations
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootise pop?
A group of engineering students from Purdue University reported that its licking machine, modeled after a human tongue, took an average of 364 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.