Stages of Relapse
This is the first stage of relapse and is characterized by feelings and behaviors that increase risk, even when a person is not thinking about use.
What is Emotional Relapse
This exercise today helps identify vulnerabilities, patterns, and choices that contribute to a relapse.
What is a Relapse Autopsy?
This ego defense (cognitive distortion) involves making excuses that sound reasonable.
What is rationalization?
In RELAPSES Autopsy, this refers to this area of life that can create distress when it changes too quickly.
What are routines?
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Who is Hayden Panetterie?
This stage often includes cravings, bargaining, and thoughts of returning to substance use.
What is mental relapse?
According to what we talked about today, an autopsy helps identify what a person may have used to make their relapse risk make sense to them.
What are cognitive distortions (ex. minimizing, justifying, blaming, etc)?
This defense involves convincing yourself the behavior is acceptable.
What is justification?
The "A" in RELAPSES stands for evaluating these unresolved emotional burdens.
What are resentments?
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Who was Elvis Pressley?
This stage occurs when a person actually returns to drinking or drug use.
What is physical relapse?
A relapse autopsy examines events occurring immediately before, the day of, the week before, and this additional time period.
What is two weeks or more before the relapse?
This defense involves downplaying the seriousness of the problem.
What is minimization?
The "P" warns against this attitude that says the rules don't apply to you.
What is Pride or Narcissism?
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Who is John Belushi?
Relapse is not an event...but rather THIS type of process.
What is a gradual process?
This question asks clients to identify information, situations, experiences or thoughts the deliberately withheld from others.
What secrets did you keep?
This neurotransmitter is responsible for pleasure seeking, and contributes to wanting to use, drink or engage in possibly risky behaviors.
What is dopamine?
The second "E" refers to avoiding suffering by engaging in these types of behaviors.
What is Pleasure-Oriented Behaviors?
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Who is Coolio?
Name the three stages of relapse, in order.
What are emotional, mental and physical relapse?
Relapse Autopsy states that understanding vulnerabilities allows a person to do this to their recovery.
What is fortify defenses or protect their recovery?
This term describes the process of thinking akin to "eff it". It's an all-or-nothing approach where a person is more likely to feel overwhelmed and abandon long-term goals in favor of short-term relief.
What is Abstinence Violation Effect?
A person in recovery has stopped attending meetings, become increasingly isolated, is holding onto anger toward a family member, believes they no longer need help, and only remembers the "good times" associated with using. Name at least four components of the RELAPSES model present in this scenario.
What are Look at Relationships, Assess Resentments, Pride, and Selective Memory? (Stinking Thinking could also be accepted.)
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Who is Chyna?