Mental Disorders
a natural human response to stress that can cause feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness
What is Anxiety?
any of a range of mental conditions in which there is a persistent disturbance of eating behaviour and impairment of physical or mental health.
What are Eating Disorders.
a learning disability that makes it difficult to read and spell words accurately and fluently.
Dyslexia
the state of not having a safe, stable, and adequate place to live, or the ability to obtain one.
What is homelessness?
internal or external stimuli that can cause strong emotions or cravings related to addiction.
What are Triggers?
a serious mental illness that causes extreme mood swings, from mania or hypomania to depression.
What is Bipolor Disorder?
What is Arthritis?
a chronic medical condition that affects a person's brain development and activity, which can impact their ability to focus, sit still, and control themselves.
What is ADHD?
a lack of access to basic needs like food, clothing, and shelter, or the inability to afford them.
What is poverty?
behavioral patterns that can help people regulate their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that can help to maintain sobriety during stressful events.
What are Coping skills?
a mental health condition that can develop after someone experiences or witnesses a traumatic event.
What is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD?
the loss of the ability to move (and sometimes to feel anything) in part or most of the body, typically as a result of illness, poison, or injury.
What is Paralysis?
overwhelming nervous feeling one may get when taking a test.
What is Test anxiety disorder?
Being born into a family with too much money and having no oversight on how that money is spent.
What is Life of Priveledge?
A trusted circle of people with your best interest at heart that will do anything in their power to help you to stay clean.
What is a Support Group?
a serious mental illness that affects a person's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and can make it difficult to interpret reality.
What is Schizophrenia?
a group of diseases that occur when abnormal cells in the body grow and spread uncontrollably.
Cancer
a lifelong neurological and developmental condition that affects how people interact with others, communicate, learn, and behave.
What is autism?
the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation.
What is discrimination?
A person that belongs to a 12 step program with significant clean time and solid in their recovery that has agree to mentor you and lead you throught the steps.
What is a Sponsor?
a mental health condition that involves a long-term pattern of violating or manipulating others' rights, often in a criminal way. People with this disorder may also lack empathy, rarely feel remorse, and disregard rules and laws.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
a chronic lung disease that damages the airways or other parts of the lungs, making it difficult to breathe.
What is COPD?
A person with below average ability to use logic and information to answer questions or make predictions.
What is low IQ?
causing someone harm or distress, it can happen in a variety of ways ranging from shaming and disrespect to physical, sexual or emotional harm.
What is Abuse?
a person who intentionally or unintentionally aided an addict to continue to use.
What is an Enabler?