Coping Skills
strategies and actions used to manage stress, emotions, and challenging situations in a healthy and effective way.
What are coping skills?
Name three "yucky" feelings.
What are sad, angry, or anxious?
Low mood, sadness, and hopelessness can be traits of this condition.
What is depression?
doing things to take care of your physical, mental, and emotional well-being?
what is self-care?
This is the process of avoiding or not using addictive substances.
What is abstinence or sobriety?
This coping skill involves becoming aware of your surroundings through various senses such as hearing, sight, smell, taste, and sensation.
What is grounding or mindfulness?
This feeling also follows being let down or not getting what you want.
What is disappointment?
Excessive worry, fear, and panic attacks can be symptoms of this disorder.
What is anxiety?
True or False: Self-care is selfish.
false
What is a strong desire to consume a particular substance called
what is a craving
Name three coping skills that can be done using a pencil and paper.
What are journaling, drawing, or writing a gratitude list?
Name five things that might make someone feel angry.
What is Feeling treated unfairly, Being disrespected, Feeling powerless or controlled, Frustration/Blocked goals, threat or harm.
True or False: People with mental health problems are not more violent than those without
What is "burnout," and how can consistent self-care help prevent it?
exhaustion brought on by too much stress, which can be controlled by engaging in self-care activities.
Support groups like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) are based on what concept
Peer support and shared experience
Name two benefits of having good coping skills in recovery.
You can reduce cravings, manage your emotions better, improve your mood, and feel more confident.
True or False: Crying is a healthy expression of how you feel
What is true.
Name two benefits of having good coping skills in recovery.
You can reduce cravings, manage your emotions better, improve your mood, and feel more confident.
What is being present, focusing on your breath, and being non-judgmental of your thoughts?
What is "mindfulness"?
This term refers to when a person requires a larger amount of a substance or alcohol to achieve the same effect as before.
what is Tolerance?
describe the "5-4-3-2-1" grounding technique.
What is naming 5 things you see, 4 things you touch, 3 things you hear, 2 things you smell, and 1 thing you taste?
Can you truly control your emotions?
Emotions can be controlled by acknowledging them without judgment, understanding their message, and deciding actions, rather than stopping them.
accepting yourself as you are, with your virtues and imperfections, without harsh self-criticism or comparisons to others.
what is Self-Acceptance
Active addiction involves substance use for Blank and trauma healing, influenced by the 3 P's: purpose, perspective, and positivity.
what is happiness?
People often try substances due to social influences or friends.
What is peer pressure?