Coping Skills
What is the difference between healthy coping and unhealthy coping?
Healthy coping helps manage emotions without causing harm; unhealthy coping may provide temporary relief but create additional problems.
Focusing on things you are thankful for is called this practice.
what is gratitude
What is one early warning sign that someone may be approaching a crisis?
Increased isolation, severe mood changes, sleep disturbances, or difficulty managing emotions.
What has a head and tail but no body
a coin
This " feel-good" neurotransmitter is linked to reward and motivation
what is dopamine?
Give an example of positive self-talk.
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"I am learning and improving every day."
what is art therapy
Drinking enough of this each day helps with energy and concentration.
what is water?
This is a confidential hotline for people struggling with mental health or thoughts of suicide.
What is the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (988)?
what gets bigger the more you take away from it
a hole
Chronic stress increases the production of this hormone, which can contribute to anxiety.
what is Cortisol?
Writing in this can help process your thoughts, emotions and track your moods.
What is Journal?
This practice involves saying positive things about yourself to improve self-esteem.
What is affirmations?
Why is it important to recognize your personal triggers?
It helps you prepare coping strategies and seek support earlier. What is a crisis stabilization unit, behavioral health unit, or the ER.
What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left?
your left hand
This neurotransmitter is responsible for regulating mood, sleep and appetite.
what is Serotonin?
This practice involves focusing on the present movement.
What is mindfulness?
Setting limits in relationships to protect your well-being is called this.
what are boundaries
Naming five things you can see, four you can feel, three you can hear is this technique.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding method?
What is BLACK when you buy it, RED when you use it, and GREY when you throw it away?
what is a Charcoal?
This Neurotransmitter is involved in both pain relief and pleasure. Its released during exercise.
What is endorphins? (primarily pain management)
what is active listening?
giving someone your attention and trying to understand what they are communicating
Reflecting on your strengths and areas for growth is part of this self-care practice.
What is self-reflection?
making this kind of plan can help someone know what to do in a mental health emergency.
what are a safety plan?
How many eggs can you eat on an empty stomach?
one, because afterwards your stomach isnt empty
This lobe of the brain is responsible for decision making and impulse control?
what is the frontal lobe?
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