MENTAL TRAPS IN RECOVERY
This thinking pattern convinces someone that because they’ve been sober for a while, they are now “cured.”
What is complacency?
Also accept: overconfidence, false security
Correct Answer 400
If Stolen 800
After acute withdrawal ends, this syndrome can last weeks to months and includes mood swings, sleep disruption, and irritability.
Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
Correct answer 400
Incorrect 200 to the other team
This step involves admitting the exact nature of your wrongs to another person.
What is Step Five?
Correct answer 1000
If stolen 1000 to the other team
This is the only mammal capable of true powered flight.
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Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight. They belong to the Order Chiroptera, which means "winged hand". Although often mistaken for rodents, they are more closely related to primates. Bats first appeared in the Eocene epoch about 58 million years ago.
Right answer 1000
Wrong answer 1000 to the other team
This mental distortion frames a minor mistake as total failure.
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
Also accept: black-and-white thinking, catastrophic thinking
Correct answer 600
If stolen 1000 to the other team
Chronic substance use weakens this part of the brain responsible for impulse control and decision-making.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Correct answer 600
If stolen 1000 to the other team
Making amends except when to do so would injure them or others belongs to this step.
What is Step Nine?
Correct answer 600
If stolen 1000
This country has the longest coastline in the world.
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What is Canada?
Right answer 1200
Wrong answer 1200 to the other team
This belief minimizes consequences by comparing oneself to “worse” cases.
What is comparison or comparative minimization?
Also accept: rationalization, minimization
Correct answer 900
If stolen 1200 to the other team
This neurotransmitter, heavily affected by most addictive substances, drives reward and reinforcement
What is dopamine?
Correct answer 900
If stolen 1200 to the other team
This spiritual defect often shows up disguised as “standards” but is actually rooted in resentment and superiority. .
What is pride?
Correct answer 900
If stolen 1500 to the other team
The smallest country in the world by both population and land area is this.
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What is Vatican City?
Right Answer 1500
Wrong answer 1500 to the other team
This relapse precursor disguises itself as independence and sounds like, “I’ve got this. I don’t need meetings anymore.”
What is isolation?
Also accept: self-reliance thinking, pulling away, detachment
Correct answer 800
If stolen 1600 to the other team
Repeated exposure to a substance requiring more of it to achieve the same effect is called this.
Only the person who picked can answer with no help from their team
Correct answer 800
Incorrect 400 to the other team
This behavior looks like helping others in recovery but is actually used to avoid working on oneself.
What is deflection through service?
Also accept: service avoidance, hiding behind service, busy recovery
Correct answer 800
If stolen 1600
This blood vessel is the largest artery in the human body.
R/W
What is the aorta?
Right Answer 2000
Wrong Answer 2000 to the other team
This cognitive bias causes someone to selectively remember the “good times” of using while forgetting the wreckage.
What is euphoric recall?
Correct answer 1500
If stolen 2500 to the other team
This stress hormone spikes during cravings and contributes to relapse under emotional pressure.
What is cortisol?
Correct answer 1500
If stolen 2000
This condition describes someone who is physically sober but emotionally unchanged, still operating on self-will.
What is a dry drunk?
Correct answer 1500
If stolen 2000
This layer of Earth lies directly beneath the crust.
R/W
What is the mantle?
Right Answer 2000
Wrong Answer 2000 to the other team