Vocab
_____ consists of the ability to monitor, access, express, and regulate one’s own emotion.
What is Emotional Intelligence
____ is a type of defense mechanism. This may look like a person making excuses for actions or feelings or justifying them to others or themselves.
What is Rationalization?
A continuous pain in the head.
What is headache?
____ is a feeling of responsibility, remorse, or sadness that is caused by doing something that you know is wrong, harmful, or unhealthy.
What is guilt?
a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
What is mindfulness?
____ is a reaction/response to a situation that involves your mind, body, and behavior.
What is an emotion?
____ is a type of defense mechanism. This is when a person separates from one's own experience. Some may describe this as feeling like "an outer body experience" or "zoning out".
What is Dissociation?
Blood is diverted away from the digestive system which can lead to feelings of ____ or ‘butterflies’
What is nausea?
___ is a typical response to feeling frustrated or helpless that can range from mild resentment to intense rage.
What is anger
coping strategies to help reconnect you with the present and bring you out of a panic attack, PTSD flashback, unwanted memory, distressing emotion, or dissociation. They help separate you from the distress of your emotional state or situation.
What are Grounding Techniques?
Bonus point if you can name a few!
____ is when a person attempts to make up for weaknesses in one area by excelling in another area.
What is Compensation?
____ is a returning to immature/old behaviors to express emotions.
What is regression?
This is a mechanism to keep the body cool so it is more likely to survive a dangerous event.
What is sweating?
___ is a strong emotional connection felt towards people, places, or things that is one of the most positive emotions people are capable of feeling by both giving and receiving.
What is love
A muscle relaxation is a method that helps relieve that tension. You tense a group of muscles as you breathe in, and you relax them as you breathe out. You work on your muscle groups in a certain order.
What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation?
A _____ is a way of dealing with an uncomfortable or overwhelming feeling or situation.
What is coping strategy/skill
____ is a type of defense mechanism that puts your own faults onto another person
What is projection
Releases Adrenaline. Quickly signals other parts of the body to get ready to respond to danger.
What is Adrenal Glands?
____ is the emotion you feel when you recognize a threat to your safety or security (it is known).
What is fear?
Paying attention to parts of the body and bodily sensations in a gradual sequence from feet to head. You bring awareness to every single part of your body, noticing any aches, pains, tension, or general discomfort.
What is body scan?
____ are coping strategies that help you to protect yourself from difficult feelings.
What is defense mechanism?
____ is a defense mechanism in which you refuse to recognize an emotion
What is denial
Quicker thinking to help us to evaluate danger and make rapid decisions. It helps us to concentrate on the danger (or escape routes) when the fight or flight response is active.
What is racing thoughts?
____ is an unpleasant, threatening feeling that something bad is about to happen (it is unknown). Some may call this feeling nervous.
What is anxiety
A type of a breathing exercise that helps strengthen your diaphragm, an important muscle that helps you breathe. This breathing exercise is also sometimes called belly breathing or abdominal breathing.
What is Diaphragmatic breathing?