Diagnosis
This disorder is categorized by low mood, lethargy, little joy or interest in doing things and feelings of worthlessness or hopelessness.
What is the depression?
This coping skill involves focusing your mind on the present moment without judgment.
What is mindfulness?
These are sudden, vivid memories or sensations that make a person feel like they are re-living a traumatic event.
What are flashbacks?
The ability to recover from setbacks, adapt to change, and keep going in the face of adversity.
What is resilience?
This term describes when a person experiences emotional and physical exhaustion due to prolonged stress, often related to work.
What is burnout?
This anxiety disorder is diagnosed when a person experiences sudden, repeated episodes of intense fear without real danger.
What is Panic Disorder?
Writing down your thoughts and feelings in a notebook is known as this helpful coping technique.
What is journaling?
The body’s automatic response to trauma, commonly referred to as “fight, flight, blank, or blank" as the other two options.
This term describes the loss of contact with reality, often involving delusions or hallucinations.
What is psychosis?
This type of trauma results from exposure to someone else’s traumatic experience, often seen in caregivers or therapists.
What is secondary trauma?
This disorder is characterized by alternating periods of extreme highs (mania) and lows (depression).
What is Bipolar disorder?
“STOP,” “TIPP,” and “DEAR MAN” are acronyms used in this evidence-based therapy for emotional regulation.
What is DBT?
This term refers to the physical symptoms one experiences as a direct result of our trauma.
What are psychosomatic symptoms?
A distorted thinking pattern where someone sees situations in extreme "all or nothing" terms.
What is black and white thinking?
This manual is most commonly used by clinicians in the U.S. to diagnose mental health disorders.
What is the DSM?
This neurodevelopmental disorder is typically diagnosed in childhood and affects communication, behavior, and social interaction.
What is Autism?
Taking slow, deep breaths can activate this part of the nervous system that calms the body.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This form of therapy uses eye movement to help process traumatic memories.
What is EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
The psychological defense mechanism of blaming others for your own feelings or actions.
What is projection?
This type of therapy focuses on early childhood experiences and the unconscious mind.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
This personality disorder involves a long-term pattern of unstable relationships, self-image, and emotions, along with impulsivity.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This relaxation technique involves tensing and relaxing different muscle groups.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This brain structure helps encode and retrieve memories and may be altered in trauma survivors.
What is the hippocampus?
The term for when someone experiences both a mental health disorder and a substance use disorder.
What is co-occurring disorder or dual diagnosis?
This person is responsible for creating DBT in order to help those with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Who is Marsha Linehan?