Behaviors
These are spur of the moment activities that are not considered fully and often lead to long-term, unpleasant consequences.
What are impulsive behaviors?
When a thought gets into a person's head and they just can't get it out.
What are obsessive thoughts?
Not being able to feel pleasure in any activity.
These are strong, often irrational beliefs that occur primarily with disorders like schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, but can also occur in psychotic phases of depression and bipolar disorders.
What are delusional beliefs?
Racing heart, feeling hot, and other physical symptoms related to this intense state of anxiety.
What is a panic attack?
A person will engage in this type of behavior, feeling that it is the only thing that will relieve psychological discomfort or the person must do the behavior to avoid discomfort.
What are compulsive behaviors?
Thoughts that enter a person's awareness without prompting and cause significant psychological discomfort.
What are intrusive thoughts?
Often a result of trauma, when a person feels irritable, sad, empty, or alone for a long period of time.
What is a "persistent negative emotional state"?
Beliefs that everything will always turn out in the worst possible scenario or with the worst possible outcome.
What is catastrophizing?
What is Vitamin D?
When we reduce a person or thing to a single label, without consideration of other characteristics of the person or thing.
What is labeling?
The tendency to ignore positive events, people, and things in one's life, and pay greater attention to the negative.
What is "mental filtering"?
Often a result of trauma, when a person is easily startled and takes a significant amount of time to calm down after being startled.
What is an exaggerated threat response?
Beliefs that either "this" or "that" are the only possibilities for solution to a problem.
What is "Black-or-White" thinking?
There are many things that affect this generalized and longer sense of feeling, including physical discomfort, hunger, being tired, physical pain, and other factors.
What is our mood?
When a person engages in self-destructive activities with the goal to alleviate psychological pain.
What are self-harm behaviors?
When people cling to the idea that someone "should" have acted in a specific manner, or that someone "ought to" have done a specific activity.
When a person is cognitively aware, but feels detached from their body, like they are floating in space or that somehow their physical sense aren't real.
What is "derealization"?
Beliefs that if something is not total, then it does not count at all.
What is "All-or-Nothing" thinking?
Experiences like itchy skin, upset stomach, muscle tightness, headaches, and other physical symptoms resulting from psychological distress.
What are somatic symptoms?
When a person tells themselves that they're a failure, weak, dumb, or no good.
What is negative self-talk?
When one considers that the way one feels about something is the truth about that thing.
What is "Emotional Reasoning"?
A persistent emotional state that can last anywhere from several hours to several months. When it is a persistent emotional state, it can become problematic if it interferes with functioning in daily activities.
What is mood?
Beliefs that another's behavior is about "me" in some way, or that another's behavior is directed towards me.
What is "Personalization"?
The rate at which the physical body processes food, medications, and other substances. This is different in different people and can be influenced by weight, exercise, fluid intake, food intake, and other factors.
What is metabolism?