Addiction
Return to a pattern.
What is Relapse?
How you respond to problems- how you try to solve them.
What is Coping?
Someone trusted turned on you.
What is Betrayal?
Feels like it's happening again.
What is flashback?
Always on guard.
What is Hypervigilance?
Completely refraining from using drugs alcohol, or engaging in addictive behavior.
What is Abstinence?
Healing, growth, progress or change are all words for this.
What is Recovery?
This is being singled out for harm while others were not.
What is Scapegoating?
Set limits to protect their physical, emotional, mental, and interpersonal well being.
What are Boundaries?
One time setback.
What is Slip?
Reaching a point where the negative consequences of addiction become severe enough to motivate change.
What is Hitting Bottom?
Three types of recovery goals.
What is abstinence, harm reduction, and controlled use?
Traumas like incest, torture, and genocide are so extreme that others may turn away or deny them.
What is Taboo?
An emotional response to an event or series of events that overwhelms a person's ability to cope.
What is Trauma?
"To give power"
What is Empowerment?
A coping skill in which a person observes craving without acting on them, allowing the urge to rise and fall like a wave.
What is Urge-Surfing?
The best sides of you are "driving the car" enough to stay on the right road.
What is Sustained Recovery?
This is what you feel when you or others are subjected to injustice, betrayal, discrimination, isolation, persecution, racism, exclusion, or other forms of social suffering.
What is Social Pain?
Repeating patterns, behaviors, or relationship dynamics connected to unresolved trauma.
What is Reenactment?
Actions that protect someone from the natural consequences of their behavior, unintentionally allowing the problem to continue.
What is Enabling?
Trying to recover money, time, opportunities, or other losses by continuing a harmful behavior, often making the situation worse.
What is Chasing Losses?
The ability to sustain a better version of yourself and one larger than trauma and addiction.
What is Wholeness?
Consequences that can occur due to social pain.
What is weaken your immune system, trigger aggression, distort self-perception, lead to isolation?
A subconscious defense mechanism where the mind compartmentalizes conflicting emotions or experiences into extremes, like "all good" or "all bad".
What is Splitting?
Someone who has stopped using substances but has not addressed the emotional, behavioral, or lifestyle issues associated with addiction.
What is "Dry but Not Sober"?