Recovery Reality Check
This term describes a strong desire or urge to use drugs or alcohol.
What is a craving?
This mental health condition involves persistent excessive worry that can interfere with everyday activities.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
This coping technique involves focusing on the present moment without judging your thoughts or feelings.
What is mindfulness?
In the movie Shrek, this is the name of the kingdom ruled by Lord Farquaad.
What is Duloc?
his is the only continent that has no native species of snakes.
What is Antarctica?
If you pass the person in second place during a race, this is the place you are now in.
What is second place?
These are people, places, emotions, or situations that increase someone's desire to use substances.
What are triggers?
This chemical messenger in the brain plays an important role in motivation, reward, and reinforcement.
What is dopamine?
This communication style allows someone to express their needs and boundaries respectfully without being aggressive or passive.
What is assertive communication?
This artist became the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year four times.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This country is home to the ancient city of Petra, famous for its buildings carved into reddish sandstone cliffs.
What is Jordan?
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but nine run away. This is how many sheep remain.
What is nine?
This recovery term refers to the mistaken belief that a person can safely return to controlled substance use despite a history of addiction.
What is the illusion of control?
This term describes experiencing two conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes that create psychological discomfort.
What is cognitive dissonance?
This grounding technique involves identifying five things you can see, four you can feel, three you can hear, two you can smell, and one you can taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique?
In The Office, Michael Scott famously declares bankruptcy by doing this.
What is yelling "I declare bankruptcy!"?
This is the largest internal organ in the human body.
What is the liver?
This five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.
What is "short"?
This acronym is used in recovery to identify four common states of vulnerability: Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired.
What is HALT?
This psychological phenomenon involves feeling that you are outside your body or disconnected from yourself.
What is depersonalization?
This DBT skill involves accepting reality as it is, even when you strongly dislike the situation, rather than fighting what cannot currently be changed.
What is radical acceptance?
This 1994 movie features the famous line, "Life is like a box of chocolates."
What is Forrest Gump?
This element, represented by the symbol W on the periodic table, has the highest melting point of all pure metals.
What is tungsten?
A clock strikes six times in five seconds. Assuming the strikes are equally spaced, this is how long it takes the same clock to strike 12 times.
What is 11 seconds?
This psychological defense mechanism occurs when someone creates seemingly logical explanations to justify unhealthy decisions or behaviors.
What is rationalization?
This therapy approach helps individuals recognize and change distorted thinking patterns and unhelpful behaviors.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?
This technique involves deliberately questioning the evidence behind a negative automatic thought and replacing it with a more balanced perspective.
What is cognitive restructuring (or cognitive reframing)?
This actor played six different roles in the 2004 Christmas movie The Polar Express.
Who is Tom Hanks?
This country has more time zones than any other country when its overseas territories are included.
What is France?
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 total. The bat costs exactly $1 more than the ball. This is the cost of the ball.
What is five cents?