Therapeutics
People looking to better their mental health may engage in this type of activity.
What is Self Care?
This technique involves inhaling and exhaling while counting to slow one's breathing and avoid hyperventilation, therefore reducing stress.
What is Box Breathing?
A series of repeating or escalating negative thought patterns - frequently of rumination and worry - that cause distress.
What is a doom spiral?
If someone finds themselves sensitive to criticism, isolated, hostile, preoccupied with personal problems, and suffering from depression, anxiety, substance usage, and eating disorders, they likely also suffer from this condition.
What is low self-esteem?
Limits or lines you set for others not to cross within the context of your relationship.
What are boundaries?
An exercise in clearing the mind to focus on the current moment, often used as complementary medicine or in religious tradition.
What is Meditation?
A process of slow and intentional breathing meant to engage the vagus nerve in order to disconnect from "Fight or Flight" and reduce cortisol, heart rate, and anxiety.
What is Mindful Breathing?
Failure to concentrate, obsessing over past failures and rehashing past events, escalating worry, irritation, isolation, and feelings of powerlessness that may culminate into a panic attack
What does a doom spiral look like?
Negative self-talk and comparisons, difficulty requesting help, strong or constant feelings of worry, a negative perception of the future, a lack of boundaries, people-pleasing, and low confidence are all signs of this psychological phenomenon.
What are the signs of low self-worth?
This kind of relationship dynamic involves one party engaging in frequent code-switching, feeling pressured to be overly nice, having low self-esteem, playing "yes-man," being focused on the approval of others, apologizing excessively, being unable to say "No," and having very little 'me time.'
What is a people pleaser?
An intentional structuring of one's tasks and behaviors to allow time for specific self-care goals and responsibilities to be accomplished before beginning the specific duties of the day.
What is a morning routine?
The method(s) of controlling one's behavior, thoughts, emotions, choices, and impulses resulting from emotional instability.
What is Self-Regulation?
often, this occurs to address a need to prepare or protect one's self from potential pain. Unfortunately, it just as often backfires by fueling anxiety and dread.
Why do we catastrophize?
This technique flips a bad habit into a mindset of self-nurturing.
"I'm so stupid" becomes "I haven't figured this out yet." or "I'm still learning."
"I shouldn't have made this mistake" becomes "I will learn from this."
"I'm such a loser." becomes "I'll do my best."
What is positive self-talk?
What is flip talk?
The excessive emotional or psychological reliance on another person, especially a friend, family member, or romantic partner.
What is codependency?
The use of personal interaction, clinical methodology, and psychological techniques in order to change behavior, usually intended to improve well-being and mental health or resolve/mitigate troublesome thoughts, beliefs or compulsions.
What is Psychotherapy?
A.K.A.: Talk Therapy
Note: "Therapy" applies to any attempt to remediate a diagnose and is interchangeable with "Treatment"
Practitioners of Yoga, Meditation, Journaling, and those who attempt to be fully aware of their present moment are practicing what concept?
What is Mindfulness?
This is the philosophy and technique of using queries in sequence to explore ideas and challenge distorted thinking.
Including questions like "is this a likely scenario or just a possibility?" or "how might others interpret the same situation?"
What is socratic questioning?
Speaking aloud to assert one's own value to themselves, often while looking in a mirror.
What are Self-Affirmations?
This phenomenon involves emotional exhaustion, feelings of being detached and overwhelmed, and can accompany headaches, sleep issues, and appetite problems.
What does burnout look like?
A form of Psychotherapy combining behaviorism and cognitive psychology intended to treat a range of mental disorders including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, addiction, social problems, and other mental illnesses.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
(CBT)
When applying THIS practice, one might spend time listening to music, taking a cold shower, holding an ice cube, focusing on their heartbeat, or intentionally making their movements more gentle.
What is calming the nervous system?
Answering the "What ifs" of anxiety to show to one's self that the worst case scenario is manageable.
What is Decatastrophizing?
The answer is simple: adjust your mindset. Though in practice, it may take years of practicing the behaviors of they who already do.
What does it take to love myself?
This represents a consensual partnership built on trust, mutual respect and understanding, and cooperation in life.
What does a healthy romantic relationship look like?