Mental effects
Term for feelings of loss whether tangible or intangible.
What is Grief?
Reminding yourself where you are, what is going on, and focuses on breathing and calming yourself down.
What is grounding?
Most effective form of communication.
What is Assertive?
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
What is the Serenity Prayer?
The most normalized and purchased substance in the United States.
What is Nicotine?
Telling someone no, walking away, making an excuse to leave, avoiding
What is sitting a boundary?
A model in which you think about the problem and IF it will even happen. Focuses on breathing and problem solving.
Best way to achieve help.
What is asking for help?
A person in which we can rely on to help us when unsure of what to do, need someone just to talk to, or make suggestions based off of their own experiences.
What is a Sponsor?
The percentage of people who never receive help for their substance use disorder.
What is ~90%?
This is the neurotransmitter that boosts happiness and substances tend to increase this as well.
What is Dopamine?
Best type of exercise to restore neurotransmitter balance.
What are aerobic excercises?
Slamming doors, rolling eyes, ignoring, agreeing negatively, sometimes not doing what was asked (etc...)
What is Passive Aggressiveness?
We admit we are powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is Step One?
A mental picture or idea of what you want to accomplish.
What is a goal?
This is why over time using substances loses their effect and harms them over time.
What is changing the brains' chemical structure? (OR TOLERANCE)
States that there are some issues we can see from afar, up close, and some which no one can see.
What is the Iceberg Model?
Method of communication which allows others to understand how we are feeling and what we are observing to feel this way.
What is the COTE method?
The step which requires us to practice everything we learned in all our affairs.
What is Step 12?
What is gambling?
A belief that stands no ground and is not real but is perceived real by the person.
What is an irrational thought?
Maslow's final stage in the hierarchy of needs.
What is Self-actualization?
The ability to allow others to help you by sharing and communicating with them.
What is Trust?
The men who created the 12 steps program.
Who are Bill W. and Dr. Bob?
Father of psychology who ended up getting his own friend addicted to cocaine as he believed it helped with depression until he realized he was an idiot.
Who is Sigmund Freud?