Healthy Foundation
Adults should get approximately 8 hours of this every night.
What is sleep?
Thoughts that come up very quickly after a situation, sometimes without our knowledge, that affect our emotions and behaviors.
What are automatic thoughts?
The longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
Seeing only the worst possible outcomes of a situation.
What is catastrophizing?
Limits and rules that people set in relationships. When these rules are healthy, they help keep us safe and the relationship healthy.
What are boundaries?
Having both a bedroom environment and daily routines that promote consistent, uninterrupted sleep
What is sleep hygiene?
Deeply held beliefs that influence how we interpret our experiences.
What are core beliefs?
The largest animal on earth.
What is the blue whale?
The expectation that something will turn out poorly without adequate evidence.
Simple way of speaking that puts the focus on yourself, instead of the other person, which decreases defensiveness and reduces feelings of blame.
What are "I" statements?
This DBT acronym helps us remember the important connection between our mind and body and how to take care our ourselves.
What is PLEASE?
Working on changing behaviors in order to increase positive emotions and change these emotions.
What is behavioral activation?
The real life inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Who is Vlad the Impaler?
Interpreting the thoughts and feelings of others without adequate evidence.
What is mind reading?
A tool used in therapy, often in family therapy, to help spot patterns in family relationships and different generations.
What is a genogram?
The PL of the DBT PLEASE acronym.
What is "treat physical illness?"
Working on changing thoughts, in order to change our emotions and behaviors.
What is cognitive restructuring?
This ape's name means "man/person of the forest" in Malay.
What is an orangutan?
The belief that acts will influence unrelated events. "I am a good person, bad things shouldn't happen to me."
What is magical thinking?
A boundary that is inflexible and unchanging, not matter the situation. It can be helpful in keeping us safe but can also lead to few close relationships and the avoidance of intimacy.
What are rigid boundaries?
One of the potential factors in the development of physical illness and mental illness. When it is elevated or increased it can lead to higher levels of illness/disorder.
What is inflammation and chronic stress?
This shows how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors affect one another. This means changing your thoughts will change how you feel and behave. (Hint: it is a shape.)
What is the cognitive triad or triangle?
The most abundant element in the earth's crust by weight.
What is oxygen?
Recognizing only the negative aspects of a situation while ignoring the positives.
What is disqualifying the positive?
When a third person either within the family or someone from outside, is brought in and selected as a way to protect the integrity of the family by ending any perceived threat to the system and stabilize a two-person relationship.
What is triangulation?