Coping Strategies
This coping skill involves slowing your breathing to calm your body
What is deep breathing?
These triggers are usually directly found in the environment around you.
What are external factors?
This is the word that describes in which the brain can change over time
What is neuroplasticity
This happens when we get in the way of our ways either knowingly or subconsciously
what is self-sabotage?
This is the program you can utilize after detox, rehab, or inpatient
What is SOAP?
This coping strategy involves using an alternate stimuli to divert attention from cravings
What is distractions?
Feeling hungry, angry, lonely, or tired are common relapse risks remembered by this acronym.
What is HALT?
This system reacts quickly to stress, emotions, and bodily urges, often without conscious thought.
What is amygdala?
This pattern can help shift you away from immediate reaction and provide space to think.
What is CSC?
This is the number for the self-help line
What is 988?
What is resilience?
A feeling of an intense need for substance of choice
What is a craving?
What is the hippocampus?
Happiness can cause this secondary emotion along with euphoric symptoms
What is mania?
This resource provides 1:1 consultation with a medical professional to help with recovery
What is therapy?
This involves learning to challenge others
What is the external shift
Predetermined list of people, places, and things to avoid
What is boundaries
This part of the brain kicks off dopamine release which fuels motivation.
What is VTA ?
Isolation and depression are associated with this primary emotion
What is sadness
Where is a place to attend to get support in recovery that is world wide
What is AA meetings