Emotion Regulation
Identifying and putting a word to your emotional experience instead of simply reacting to it.
What is naming the feeling?
Taking responsibility for your behavior without making excuses.
What is accountability?
Withdrawal from alcohol can sometimes produce this dangerous neurological complication involving uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain.
What are seizures?
Imagining not only the first drink or drug but what is likely to happen afterward.
What is playing the tape forward?
This A Star Is Born actor and director has publicly discussed getting sober in his late twenties.
Who is Bradley Cooper?
Focusing attention on what you can see, hear, touch, smell, or taste in the present moment.
What is grounding?
Attempting to control another person's behavior through guilt, threats, or deception.
What is manipulation?
Yawning, runny nose, watery eyes, muscle aches, and restlessness are commonly associated with withdrawal from this drug class.
What are opioids?
Practicing exactly what you will say when someone offers you drugs or alcohol.
What are refusal skills?
This Halloween and Everything Everywhere All at Once actress has called recovery one of the greatest accomplishments of her life.
Who is Jamie Lee Curtis?
The ability to experience emotional discomfort without immediately trying to escape it.
What is distress tolerance?
Considering how your actions affect another person's feelings and experiences.
What is empathy?
Severe confusion, agitation, hallucinations, and autonomic instability during alcohol withdrawal may indicate this emergency.
What is delirium tremens, or DTs?
Believing “I've been sober long enough; I don't need meetings, counseling, or support anymore.”
What is complacency?
This actor famous for playing Hannibal Lecter has spoken publicly about decades of sobriety.
Who is Anthony Hopkins?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired make up this common recovery acronym.
What is HALT?
Believing normal rules should not apply to you.
What is entitlement?
Profound fatigue, increased sleep, depressed mood, and increased appetite may occur after stopping these drugs.
What are stimulants?
Remembering the excitement of substance use while forgetting withdrawal, jail, financial losses, or damaged relationships.
What is euphoric recall?
This actress became famous as a child in E.T. and has openly discussed substance problems beginning at a very young age.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
Reacting immediately when angry rather than stopping to consider consequences demonstrates poor this.
What is impulse control?
Apologizing, changing the behavior, and attempting to repair a relationship are parts of this process.
What is making amends or repairing harm?
Irritability, sleep difficulty, vivid dreams, anxiety, and decreased appetite may occur after stopping heavy use of this substance.
What is cannabis?
Returning to secrecy, isolation, dishonesty, and old thinking patterns can indicate this phase before substance use occurs.
What is mental or emotional relapse?
This Scottish star of 300 has openly discussed stopping drinking and later seeking help related to pain medication concerns.
Who is Gerard Butler?