Cognitive Distortions
Receiving a scholarship for school but being unenthused because 100's of other students also received a scholarship.
Minimizing
An activity that include posture, breathing, control of subtle forces, cleansing the body-mind, visualizations, chanting of mantras, and many forms of meditation.
What is Yoga
Having the ability to say no to friends and family
Social Wellness Self-Care
Anxiety is our bodies response to ____ & _____
Stress and or Danger
Internal mental filters or biases that increase our misery, fuel our anxiety, and make us feel bad about ourselves.
What are Cognitive Distortions
If your marriage ended in divorce, you think you’re not worthy of love. As a result, you might conclude you should never date again.
Overgeneralization
This involves sitting quietly to focus on your breathing, thoughts, sensations in your body or things you can sense around you. Try to bring your attention back to the present if your mind starts to wander.
Mindful Meditation
How many hours of sleep should the average person get?
7-9 Hours- Physical Self-Care
What is the difference between Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Stress?
What is: The difference is that in an anxiety disorder, the symptoms are extreme and don’t go away once the stress is over.
A person's ability to manage actual or perceived emotional distress.
Distress Tolerance
This kind of thinking deals in extremes. People and situations are either great or terrible. You believe you’re either destined for success or failure. You don’t allow room for balanced perspectives or outcomes.
Black and White or Polarized Thinking
Tensing and Relaxing your Muscles. A technique for learning to monitor and control how tight your muscles are. It involves learning to monitor tension in each specific muscle group in the body by deliberately tensing each group. This tension is then released, with attention paid to the difference between tension and relaxation. It starts usually from your feet up to your head.
Practicing gratitude and positive self-talk? What dimension of wellness does this relate to?
Emotional Wellness
Name 3 types of anxiety disorders?
What is: generalized anxiety disorder; Panic disorder; Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Social anxiety disorder; Separation anxiety; Specific phobias; Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel:
Ambivalent
You emailed your boss and she hasn't replied for two days. You begin to think that she's going to fire you.
Jumping to conclusions
What are the 5 sense? 5-4-3-2-1
See, Feel, Hear, Smell & Taste.
How much exercise is recommended for individuals each week?
Each week adults need 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity and 2 days of muscle strengthening activity. - Physical Wellness
Name three positive or healthy coping mechanisms for anxiety disorders?
Open-ended response
Something that causes someone to feel upset and frightened because they are made to remember something bad that has happened in the past:
Trigger
You to expect the worst outcome in any situation. You often find yourself thinking, “What if…?” If your child misses curfew, you imagine he’s been in a car accident. If your boss schedules a meeting, you worry you’ll be fired. And your thinking spirals from there: You may think of losing your child. Getting fired means you’ll become homeless.
Engaging in Catastrophic Thinking
What are 3 grounding techniques?
Putting hands under warm water, Categories, Count back by 7 & name all objects near you.
What is intellectual self-care?
Open-ended response
There are a number of things about who you are that can put you at greater risk of developing an anxiety disorder; name at least three?
What is: gender; age; personality factors; family history; social factors; occupation/occupational risk; and chronic illness.
An approach to mental health that involves someone using behaviors to influence their emotional state.
Behavioral Activation