The Basics
A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, often about something with an uncertain outcome.
What is anxiety?
Your heart does this when you’re anxious.
What is races or beats faster?
Believing the worst will happen.
What is catastrophizing?
Substance use often increases this emotion long-term.
What is anxiety?
Deep ________ helps calm your nervous system.
What is breathing?
People often avoid things that make them anxious. This behavior is called _______.
What is avoidance?
A physical symptom of anxiety.
What is sweating, shaking, chest tightness, stomach ache?
Seeing things as all good or all bad.
What is black-and-white thinking?
Anxiety in early recovery is common because of this.
What is withdrawal or lack of old coping skills?
Fight, flight, or ________.
What is freeze?
This four-letter word describes how we feel in our body when we're scared or anxious.
What is fear?
This kind of breathing helps calm anxiety.
What is deep or diaphragmatic breathing?
Assuming you know what others are thinking.
What is mind reading?
A safe person you can talk to when anxious who is a nonrelative.
What is a sponsor or therapist?
Fight, flight, (earlier answer), or ________.
What is fawn?
Anxiety can make your muscles feel this way.
What is tense (or tight)?
The grounding technique that uses your five senses.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique?
Blaming yourself for things you can’t control.
What is personalization?
One way anxiety can lead to relapse.
What is using to escape or avoid the feeling?
“The opposite of addiction is _________.”
What is connection?
Persistent, “free‑floating” worry about multiple life areas for at least six months defines this disorder.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
The body system activated during fight-or-flight.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Thinking one bad thing means everything will go wrong.
What is overgeneralization?
How anxiety can actually support your recovery.
What is: it motivates you to develop new coping skills?
“I can’t control everything, but I can control my ________.”
What is response (or thoughts, reactions, etc.)?