This feeling often gets in the way when people know what they should do but avoid doing it anyway.
What is fear? Or what is anxiety or avoidance?
When faced with a difficult situation, this life skill involves identifying options, weighing consequences, and choosing a healthy response.
What is problem-solving?
This mental health condition often causes excessive worry, overthinking, nervousness, and difficulty relaxing.
What is generalized anxiety disorder
What's one reason someone might miss a recovery meeting even when they know it would help?
Fear, shame, exhaustion, avoidance, scheduling issues, anxiety, resentment, etc.
Behaviors that can occur with very little conscious thought are called _________________
What are habits or automatic behaviors?
People often keep saying yes to others because they are afraid of this.
This Maryland program provides health insurance coverage for many low-income adults, children, and families.
What is Maryland Medicaid
This condition can cause low motivation, sadness, isolation, fatigue, and loss of interest in things you once enjoyed.
What is depression
Sometimes people in recovery stop doing well because they think, "I've got this. I don't need help anymore." What recovery challenge is this an example of?
Overconfidence, complacency, or letting your guard down.
Adults generally need about how many hours of sleep per night?
What is 7 - 9 hours?
This common mental health struggle can make someone avoid social situations even when they want connection.
What is anxiety, or what is social anxiety
This document is often needed when applying for housing, benefits, employment, or identification.
This trauma-related condition may involve nightmares, flashbacks, hypervigilance, and feeling constantly on guard.
What is Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
This recovery principle means taking responsibility for your actions instead of blaming others.
What is accountability
Which sense is most strongly linked to memory: sight, hearing, touch, or smell?
What is smell?
What emotion might you feel when something doesn't go the way you expected?
What is frustration? Or disappointment?
This phone number can be called or texted nationwide for immediate mental health crisis support.
This symptom involves hearing, seeing, or experiencing something that others do not perceive.
What is a hallucination
This recovery tool involves calling, texting, or talking with someone who supports your sobriety.
What is a support system
What term describes how your surroundings influence your behavior, often without you realizing it?
What is environment?
This often keeps people stuck even when they genuinely want their lives to improve.
What is fear of change
This life skill helps you arrive at appointments, work, or meetings on time.
What is time management?
This symptom occurs when a person strongly believes something despite evidence that it is not true.
What is a delusion
This is often described as the ability to sit with uncomfortable feelings without immediately trying to escape them.
What is coping or distress tolerance
This concept occurs when people see things in extremes, such as "all good" or "all bad," with no middle ground.
What is black and white thinking
Derived from: CBT