Substance Abuse
Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring
What is chronic?
Over time, the brain adjusts to the drug, so it takes more time to feel an effect.
What is tolerance?
A stressor is the internal reaction to the demand of the stress and stress is something in the world that makes a demand on a person.
True or false.
What is false?
It is the other way around.
The distorted thinking makes people believe that they are not responsible for their own problems, People become overwhelmed by their problems, ignore them, and let them accumulate.
What are problems in active addiction?
The process of adapting in the face of trauma, tragedy or significant sources of stress.
What is resilience?
True or false.
What is false? An addict dies once every 11 minutes.
The brain gets so used to the substance that it cannot work without it. When a person stops using the substance, he or she gets sick and can go through withdrawal.
What is dependence?
These occur when two opposing forces are present.
What are conflicts?
People may become frustrated at first. They may have trouble concentrating, feel disoriented, and have a short attention span.
What are problems during recovery?
What are some ways to build resilience?
What are take some deep breaths, seek sources of information, listen to empowering music, take some time off to recharge, connect with someone you love and trust, allow yourself to feel and express your emotions?
Uncontrolled use of alcohol, illegal drugs, or prescribed drugs that affects normal daily life.
What is substance Abuse?
The person may suffer negative consequences, health problems, financial issues due to this sickness. Denial is a major part of this.
What is addiction?
These occur when obstacles keep you from accomplishing your goals.
What are frustrations?
What do you need to do the following:
accept the fact that there are problems that need to be solved, belive that there is a solution for whatever problem you have, find solutions to these problems, and make changed in order to sovle the problem
What is willingness?
What are natural, adaptive, and restored resilience?
The concept of receiving an immediate reward for a specific task that takes time.
What is instant gratification?
These are the stages in which an individual may go through when using psychoactive substances.
Name some strengths and weaknesses that can affect your emotional health.
Strengths: handling stress, working hard, willing to ask for help
Weaknessess: Isolating yourself, not being honest, getting stressed easliy.
Problems can not get solved by unanticipated ways.
Trues or false
What is false? They do often get solved in unanticipated ways, but they go get solved if there is an effort to solve them.
The natural emotional response resulting from a significant loss, especially the death of a loved one.
What is grief?
The resistance to the temptation of an immediate pleasure in the hope of obtaining a valuable and long-lasting reward in the long term.
What is delayed gratification?
Name at least two of the stages of addiction.
First use, continued use, (will accept experimentation), Tolerance, Dependence, Addiction
How can you measure the severity of stress from the stressor?
What is by how long it lasts, how big it is, and how many other stressors are at work?
What are possible responses to the problems that individuals face?
What are feeling like you have problems that you've never had before, exaggerating the severity of the problems, resenting your problem and using it as an excuse to use, feeling guilt and shame about the problems
What are the stages of grief?
What are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance?