Let's Talk about Anxiety Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• physiological: _ symptoms of anxiety; shortness of breath, racing heart, sweating…
• adaptive: _ anxiety, the natural and healthy type of anxiety that is part of all of us.
• amygdala: the fear center of our brain.
• anxiety: a type of stress combined with persistent recurring thoughts that are maintained through time; our brain’s response to a perceived danger.
• frontal lobe: the rational part of our brain that allows us to process information more accurately (2 words).
• emotional: the _ brain makes you react automatically without fully processing a situation.
• avoid: anxiety makes us _ people and situations that create this feeling.
• long: when we avoid the things that gives us anxiety, we feel worse in the _ term.
• dysfunctional: when the anxiety we feel starts to impact us so much that we cannot function in our day to day, it is _
• duration: one of the 4 components of dysfunctional anxiety; how long?
• frequency: one of the 4 components of dysfunctional anxiety; how much?
• minimizing: it is not about elimination anxiety, it is about _ it.
• internalize: from the day we are born, we receive & _ messages from all around us.
• distortions: cognitive _ are patterns of thought that are irrational but that we believe.
• evidence: in order to fight our irrational thoughts, we have to find _ against them.
• question: one way to intervene in our anxious thoughts is to _ ourselves.
• mindfulness: a practice that will help us slow down and make us more aware of our anxious thoughts.
• judgment: reducing anxiety includes learning to let go of _
• restructuring: intervention in which you learn to change your irrational thoughts and transform them into more realistic ones.