Coping Skills
This go-to coping skill helps regulate your nervous system by inhaling and exhaling with intention.
What is deep breathing, breathing exercises, etc.? Also acceptable: What is meditation?
You can tell from looking at someone if they're mentally ill.
Myth.
This emotional state of being can sometimes cause tingling and numbness in your outer extremities.
What is anxiety?
This is an app that provides guided meditation and other coping skills.
What is Insight Timer, Calm, Headspace, etc.
This is a physiological event in your body and mind that can cause increased heartrate/a pounding heart, rapid breathing or difficulty breathing, sweating, chest pain, and racing thoughts.
What is a panic attack?
This method of coping is ultimately more harmful than helpful.
What is a maladaptive coping mechanism? Also accepted: what is an unhealthy coping mechanism?
Myth.
These are the three different boundary styles.
What are porous, rigid, and healthy?
This website will let you filter by insurance, type of therapy, gender of therapist, populations a therapist works with, etc., and can be used to find individual therapists, therapy groups, and support groups.
What is psychologytoday.com?
This type of thought reinforces negative beliefs about yourself, others, or situations.
What is a negative cognition/automatic negative thought?
These kinds of coping skills involve being present in the current moment, often by connecting to your senses and surroundings.
Mindfulness exercises.
Your mental health is only affected by the trauma that you directly experience.
Myth.
These are the 3 most commonly discussed/widely known trauma responses. For a daily double score, name all 5 currently recognized trauma responses.
What are fight, flight, and freeze. Daily double: what are fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and flop.
While the national 988 suicide and mental health crisis services for LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults are ending soon, this nonprofit hotline is still active and serves LGBTQIA+ youth and young adults in crisis.
What is The Trevor Project?
This term describes a skill that involves acknowledging the reality of a situation in order to deal with that situation.
What is radical acceptance?
This tactic involves challenging and changing your thought patterns to see a situation in a less stressful light.
What is cognitive reframing?
Rapport and "goodness of fit" with a therapist is just as strong or stronger of an indicator of progress in therapy as any other factor.
Truth.
This part of your brain controls rational decision-making and judgement.
What is the frontal lobe?
This is the 3 digit number for the national suicide support hotline.
What is 988?
A mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories, or sense of identity.
What is dissociation?
This is the time when it makes the most sense to practice coping skills.
When is before you're in crisis?
Truth (but we could get really philosophical on this if we wanted to).
This part of your brain takes over during a fight or flight response.
What is the amygdala?
This local resource can be reached by dialing the number: (520) 622-6000.
The community-wide crisis line for Southern AZ, run by NAMI.
(520) 622-6000
You can also dial 988, which is the immediate crisis and suicide prevention hotline.
This occurs when trauma experienced by one generation in a family has a traumatic ripple effect on the children, grandchildren, etc.
What is intergenerational trauma?