When problems become so bad that I cannot deny it I find a scapegoat and tell others it is not my fault.
What is blaming
You achieved your initial goals and are working to sustain the change for the long term. You are really learning how to cope with issues healthily instead of avoiding them.
What is maintenance
Make a searching moral fearless inventory of ourselves.
What is Step Four
A persistent, habitual use of alcohol
Alcohol Addiction
This is the name for a brain cell
neuron
Sometimes I'll pretend to know a lot about alcoholism and addiction so other people will think that I know too much to have a problem.
What is rationalizing
You are actively making gradual-measurable steps toward change.
What is Action
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. Humility is the core concept of this step.
What us Step Seven: Humbly as Him to remove out shortcomings.
This is the most commonly used, illicit substance in the U.S.
Marijuana
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Affects body movement, emotional response, and ability to feel pleasure and pain.
What is Dopamine
May occur at any time. You experience a temporary loss of progress in this stage and must determine how to stabilize yourself and continue the change process.
What is Relapse
This step reduces guilt and shame over the past and starts to liberate you from its power. Provides relief from anxiety and ego and commences the cleansing process.
What is Step Five: Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of wrongs.
Name 2 characteristics of Addiction
1. Loss of control over using
2. Preoccupation about the substance or behavior and thinks about it constantly
3. continues to use despite negative consequences
The part of the brain known is know as managing our "impulse control"
Pre-Frontal Cortex
What we use to try to deal with difficult situations or events that occur in our lives.
What is Coping Skills
You decided to make the change and are motivated to do so. You begin planning what steps you need to take to make the change.
What is Preparation
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is Step Ten
The most commonly consumed psychoactive substance on earth
Caffeine
This Neurotransmitter is the most effected when drugs enter the brain
Dopamine
Anything that stimulates the desire to use/drink again. May be a thought, feeling, memory, place, or situation in which we find ourselves.
What is a trigger
You are aware of the problem and may be considering change. You may be able to acknowledge the benefits of making the change, but are still ambivalent/undecided about actually doing it.
What is Contemplation
Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
What is Step Nine
This is what it's called when it takes more and more of the same substance to get high/drunk
increased tolerence
This is known as a return to drug use after an attempt to stop
Relapse