Coping Skills
Writing your thoughts and feelings down on paper.
What is journaling?
True or False: ALL feelings are okay to experience, even uncomfortable ones.
True
Name a common mental health disorder characterized by persistent sadness and a lack of interest in activities.
What is depression?
People with mental health conditions are often violent and out of control.
Myth.
Most people with mental health conditions are no more likely to be violent than anyone else. Only 3%–5% of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness.
People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to develop this kind of addiction, using substances to cope with flashbacks and memories.
What is a substance use disorder or gambling disorder?
Taking slow, deep breaths to calm your nervous system.
What is deep breathing?
A physical sign your body gives when you feel angry or anxious.
What is racing heart, tight fists, tense muscles, stomach ache
The disorder that is the most common form of mental illness in the U.S.
What is anxiety disorders?
Mental health struggles only affect a small group of people who just can't handle life's problems.
Myth. Mental health struggles are very common and can affect anyone, regardless of age, background, or strength.
When a person experiences both a mood disorder, like depression, and a substance use disorder simultaneously, it is known as this.
What is a dual diagnosis?
Two physical activities that are known to reduce stress.
What is walking, yoga, stretching, meditation, running, etc.?
A type of therapy, often used in both addiction and mental health recovery, that helps individuals recognize and change harmful patterns of thinking and behavior through a thought, feeling, behavior cycle
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This condition can develop after a person experiences or witnesses a terrifying, shocking, or dangerous event.
What is PTSD?
If you are taking psychiatric medication, you can stop taking it the moment you start feeling better.
Myth. Stopping medication suddenly can cause severe side effects. It should always be discussed with a doctor first.
This phrase is for turning to substances or dangerous actions as a way to cope.
What is maladaptive coping?
A grounding technique that uses five things you see, four you can touch, three you hear, two you smell, and one you taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
Replacing a negative self-statement with a realistic, kind one.
What is cognitive reframing? (Or also the growth mindset)
This mental health condition involves periods of extreme mood highs and lows.
What is Biploar Disorder?
Mental wellness means being happy and positive 100% of the time.
Myth. True mental wellness means experiencing the full range of human emotions and managing them in a healthy way.
A simple technique that is excellent for managing emotions. Not only is it effective, but is also discreet and easy to use at any time and any place as a way to come back to yourself.
What is deep breathing? (Or meditation, grounding skills, etc.)
A healthy boundary-setting phrase to use when you feel overwhelmed.
What is "no", "I need some time and space", "I can't do that right now", etc.
The practice of noticing and appreciating small positive moments in your day.
What is gratitude?
A chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
What is Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
People with mental health conditions are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than the perpetrators of it.
Fact. Study after study shows that people with severe mental illness are over 10 times more likely to be victims of a violent crime than the general public.
Addiction, as well as chronic stress, are known to hijack this part of the brain- which controls decision-making, impulse control, and reward processing.
What is the prefrontal cortex?