Coping with Stress
This is the term for the physical and emotional reactions that people have to situations that they find challenging or threatening.
What is stress?
This is a strategy that involves giving yourself credit for the good things you do and for your talents, and saying positive things to yourself as you face challenges.
What is positive self-talk?
This is a relaxation strategy that involves breathing slowly and deeply, focusing on your breath and letting go of any thoughts or worries.
What is relaxed breathing?
This is a common stressor that involves having too many things to do or not enough time to do them.
What is time pressure?
This is one of the four domains where stress can affect you, which involves your thoughts, feelings, and attitudes.
What is psychological?
This is the name of the model that explains how stress, biological vulnerability, mental illness, substance use disorder, and coping skills interact with each other.
What is the stress-vulnerability model?
This is a strategy that involves doing something you enjoy, such as taking a nature walk, going to a movie, or playing music, to improve your mood and reduce stress.
What is scheduling time for fun and relaxation?
This is a relaxation strategy that involves tensing and relaxing different muscle groups in your body, starting from your feet and moving up to your head.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This is a common stressor that involves having negative thoughts or feelings about yourself, others, or the world.
What is emotional distress?
This is one of the four domains where stress can affect you, which involves your heart rate, blood pressure, immune system, and hormones.
This is one of the two main types of strategies for managing stress, which involves avoiding or reducing stressful situations before they happen.
What is preventing stress?
This is a strategy that involves spending time with people who support your mental health and your decision to stop using substances, such as family members, friends, peers, or members of your religious or spiritual group.
What is developing a support system?
This is a relaxation strategy that involves paying attention to the present moment, without judging or reacting to your thoughts, feelings, sensations, or surroundings.
What is mindfulness?
This is a common stressor that involves experiencing a major change or loss in your life, such as moving, divorce, death of a loved one, or losing a job.
What is life transition?
This is one of the four domains where stress can affect you, which involves your actions, habits, and behaviors.
What is behavioral?
This is one of the two main types of strategies for managing stress, which involves reducing the negative impact of stress after it happens.
What is coping with stress?
This is a strategy that involves eating well, exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, and avoiding alcohol and drugs, to prevent and cope with stress more effectively.
What is taking care of your health?
This is a relaxation strategy that involves using physical poses, breathing exercises, and meditation to balance your body and mind.
What is yoga?
This is a common stressor that involves having conflict or disagreement with someone else, such as a family member, friend, co-worker, or boss.
What is interpersonal problem?
This is one of the four domains where stress can affect you, which involves your relationships, roles, and responsibilities.
What is social?
This is a relaxation strategy that involves imagining yourself in a more calm and peaceful situation, using all of your senses.
What is imagining a peaceful scene?
This is a strategy that involves expressing your feelings to a supportive person or writing them down in a journal, to prevent them from building up and causing more stress.
What is talking about your feelings or writing them down?
This is a relaxation strategy that involves focusing your mind on a word, phrase, sound, or image that helps you feel calm and peaceful.
What is meditation?
This is a common stressor that involves having difficulty meeting your basic needs, such as food, shelter, clothing, or health care.
What is financial hardship?
This is a common sign of stress in the psychological domain, which involves feeling sad, hopeless, or worthless.
What is depression?