Coping Skills
An exercise to quiet your mind by "watching" thoughts come and go or focusing on breathing and relaxing.
What is Meditation?
The core emotion behind anxiety.
What is Fear?
The main difference between feeling sad and being depressed.
What is How Long it Lasts?
A disorder that involves paranoia and hallucinations.
What is Schizophrenia?
A harmful action a person my do to find relief from intense emotional distress.
What is Self-Injury or Cutting?
Knowing whether something is inside or outside your control.
What is Locus of Control?
A form of anxiety that involves intense flashbacks or memories of a past traumatic experience.
What is PTSD?
Anger, violence, running away, internet addictions, withdrawal from friends, substance abuse.
What are ways teens might react to depression?
A disorder that is characterized by difficulty focusing, low impulse control, and fidgeting.
What is ADHD?
This can be a side-effect of some medications.
What is Suicidal Thoughts?
Creating a plan for finishing a large school project on time by breaking it down into small steps would be a fitting coping skill for what kind of stressor?
What is School Stress--otherwise known as "too much to do in too little time"?
An unrealistic fear or paranoia of a specific object or situation.
What is a Phobia?
Unusually intense mood cycles that change between being overly excited and energized to sad and hopeless.
What is Bipolar Depression?
An effective form of therapy for many mental health disorders that involves learning how to change negative thought patterns.
What is CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)?
Giving away a prized possession is a warning sign.
What is Suicidal Thoughts?
A type of stress that may be helpful.
What is Eutress?
Fear of failure, judgement, or criticism when public speaking or performing.
Name a symptom of depression that is physical, not mental.
What are fatigue, change in appetite or sleep patterns, decreased immune system, chronic pain?
Who are Parents?
Relief is temporary. Scars are permanent.
What is Self-Injury?