ESS - how much do you know

What is avoidance?

• Avoiding or suppressing uncomfortable or difficult emotions

• Procrastinating

• A healthy way to manage difficult emotions and situations

• Minimizing or preventing exposure to something that elicits difficult emotions

What are coping skills?

• Healthy mechanisms used to manage stress, emotions, and difficult situations.

• Something I say I do but don't actually do

• Something pointless that Christina and Brian make us talk about in excruciating detail

• Mechansims that help me to avoid difficult emotions and situations.

Which of the following are effective coping skills for anger? (Select all that apply)

• Punching your wall

• Temporarily removing yourself from the situation

• Squeezing ice

• Deep breathing

Causes of mental illness include (select all that apply):

• Biology

• Your environment

• Genetics

• Your personal experiences

What is CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)? (Select all that apply)

• Focuses on changing unhlelpful thoughts, behaviors and feelings

• Utilizes the CBT triangel: behaviors -> thoughts -> feelings

• A structured goal-oriented form of talk therapy

• A way to avoid talking about your emotions

Mental illness is for life, there is no cure or remedy.

• True

• False

Which of the following skills can help manage anxiety? (Select all that apply)

• Talking to a loved one or friend

• Confronting the anxiety headon

• Starting a fight with your parent to burn off steam

• Taking a walk outside

Can you avoid your emotions?

• Yes

• No

Daily stress is considered a mental illness?

• True

• False

The following are cognitive distortions (select all that apply):

• Avoidance

• Catastrophizing

• All-or-nothing thinking

• Jumping to conclusions