MASK VS. MIRROR
This involves taking responsibility for your choices, behaviors, and actions without blaming others.
What is accountability?
Depression, anxiety, anger, and addiction are often considered these rather than root problems.
What are symptoms?
What are maladaptive behaviors?
Unhealthy coping strategies that temporarily reduce emotional pain are called these.
The first step in breaking a maladaptive cycle is recognizing this.
This defense mechanism occurs when a person refuses to acknowledge a problem exists.
What is denial?
Unresolved trauma, grief, and abandonment are examples of these.
What are root problems or causes?
Isolation, substance use, self-harm, and avoidance are examples of this.
What are maladaptive coping skills.
Conflict, rejection, criticism, and stress are examples of this
What are triggers?
Accountability is about growth, while this often focuses on fault and punishment.
What is blame?
What is abandonment?
A person who fears everyone will leave them may have this underlying issue.
What is addiction switching/substituting behaviors?
A person stops drinking but develops a shopping addiction. This is often called what?
In the cycle of self-sabotage, this usually comes right before the unhealthy behavior.
What is emotional distress?
Numbness, depression, and shutdown are signs of this state.
What is hypo
When someone says, "If everyone else would change, I'd be fine," they are avoiding this.
What is victim mindset?
Instead of asking "What's wrong with me?" recovery encourages asking this question
What happened to me?
Maladaptive behaviors often provide this before consequences appear.
What is temporary relief?
Looking honestly at your behaviors, triggers, and patterns is called looking into the ________.
What is the mirror?
The main reason you cannot heal is due to?
Not getting to the root.
What is the cycle learned in this lesson
The destructive cycle