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What is it called when you have both a Mental Health illness and addiction of any kind.
What is a co-occurring disorder?
This is the term for a persistent, strong, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity
What is Phobia
This is the practice of regularly taking time to focus on your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being
What is Self-care
This term refers to the healthy ability to understand the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of another.
What is Empathy or empathizing
Perhaps the most well know composer in history, this famous music writer supposedly suffered with bipolar disorder in addition to going deaf
Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven
What is the act of using a substance or any unprescribed medication to self-administer treatment for physical or psychological conditions
What is Self medication
This mental health disorder is characterized by extreme mood swings, including periods of mania and depression
What is Bipolar Disorder
Some people in recovery need help with past difficult life events, distressing experiences, and memories often referred to as a history of _______ -
What is Trauma
To maintain healthy relationships, we should identify and communicate these physical, psychological, and emotional limits to protect ourselves from being used, manipulated, or violated by others.
What is Boundaries
Despite being one of the most well-known and well-respected US historical figures, this 16th president of the US was known to struggle with a mood disorder –
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This neurotransmitter is closely linked to the mind's reward system and is commonly associated with pleasure and reinforcement.
What is Dopamine
What does the acronym PTSD stand for?
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
This evidence-based approach to maintaining recovery from addiction involves identifying triggers and warning signs and then developing specific coping strategies to avoid a return to negative behaviors. Is what type of prevention?
What is Relapse Prevention
This is the two-word term for the cooperative process of effectively resolving disputes and settling interpersonal arguments and fights in a positive manner that both sides can agree upon HINT: C.R
What is Conflict resolution
This legendary Dutch painter, known for "Starry Night," grappled with mental health issues, even to the point where he knowingly cut off part of his own ear –
Who is Vincent van Gogh
These hormones often referred to as the "feel-good" hormones, are released during activities that promote well-being, like exercise, laughter, creative expression, and socialization
What is Endorphins
This is the term for a sudden, intense, and overwhelming episode of fear or discomfort, often accompanied by physical symptoms like a racing heart, shortness of breath, and sweating.
What is Panic Attack
This skills-based form of treatment used in substance use and mental health recovery focuses on identifying and changing thinking patterns to help change feelings and negative behaviors. * HINT it a form of therapy
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This two-word term describes when you carefully hear and focus on what another person is saying and then repeat back what you heard to confirm that you understood them.
What is Active listening or reflective listening
One of the most well know artists to ever live, this Italian genius is thought to have an anxiety disorder and possibly even autism, but that did not stop him from completing his four-year masterpiece of painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel –
Who is Michelangelo
This highly advanced and complex area of the human brain is associated with decision-making and impulse control, and is strongly impacted by addiction and intoxication
What is Prefrontal cortex
This mental health disorder is characterized by persistent and intrusive thoughts followed by repetitive behaviors or rituals aimed at reducing anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
This approach to addiction recovery focuses on minimizing the negative consequences associated with active substance use by providing tools, strategies, resources, and supports to reduce the risks and dangers associated with that use. What kind of reduction is this?
What is Harm reduction
Whatever the substance is, once addiction to that substance occurs for long enough this important organ drastically changes the way it functions
What is the Brain
One of the original writers of the “horror” genre, this legendary author from the 1800’s suffered from grief and depression. (Hint- His last name is also one of the Teletubbies) –
Who is Edgar Allan Poe