Coping Skills
This coping skill involves taking a slow breath in, and a slow breath out, to calm the body. Some common shapes people use include a box and triangle.
What is Deep Breathing?
After hearing a loud crash behind her, Maria’s heart races and she jumps in fear.
ACUTE STRESS
Deep breathing can help lower your heart rate and calm your nervous system.
FACT
Believing that the worst possible outcome will happen, and thinking it's the only outcome.
What is catastrophizing?
Red and Blue make up this color.
What is purple?
This coping skill uses your five sense to bring you back into the present moment. Some people use the 5-4-3-2-1 technique of this.
What is grounding?
Right before stepping on stage for his school play, Liam feels shaky and nervous.
ACUTE STRESS
Ignoring your feelings makes them go away faster.
FICTION
Seeing things as either all good or all bad. It's either one extreme or the other, there are no gray areas.
What is Black-and-White or All-or-Nothing Thinking?
The third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
This coping strategy teaches you to be present by observing what’s happening within yourself and the environment.
What is mindfulness?
A caregiver has spent years supporting an ill family member and feels constantly overwhelmed and exhausted.
CHRONIC STRESS
Coping skills work only if they fix the problem instantly.
FICTION
Making a conclusion or assumption without knowing if there is evidence to support it.
What is jumping to conclusions?
This U.S. state is the largest by area.
What is Alaska?
This type of coping skill involves identifying a negative thought and replacing it with something more balanced or realistic.
What is cognitive reframing?
For the past year, Dana has been in a high-pressure graduate program. She feels mostly fine day-to-day, but she constantly gets tension headaches and wakes up tired even after long sleep.
CHRONIC STRESS
If a coping skill doesn’t work immediately, it means it’s not a good skill for you.
FICTION -- (Many skills take practice, repetition, or the right timing.)
Believing that because you feel something, it must be true.
What is emotional reasoning?
The human body has this many bones in adulthood.
What is 206?
This advanced coping skill combines awareness, acceptance, and non-judgment to handle difficult emotions without avoiding them.
What is radical acceptance?
For months, Luke has felt physically fine, but every single day he dreads checking his mailbox because of an unresolved debt. Even on calm days, the worry returns as soon as they think about it.
CHRONIC STRESS (The stressor is persistent and ongoing.)
More than 1 billion people globally have a mental health condition, which equates to nearly one in seven people.
FACT
Taking a single negative event and assigning it to all current or future situations.
What is overgeneralization?
LICC was founded in this year.
What is 1953?