True or False
Only some people who are engaged in addictive behavior will experience uncomfortable cravings and urges.
What is False?
Everyone engaged in addictive behavior will experience uncomfortable cravings and urges.
What has to be broken before you can use it?
What is an Egg?
The process of addiction involves these three things.
What is
(1) compulsion to drink alcohol or use other drugs,
(2) a loss of control over drinking alcohol or using drugs, and
(3) continued drinking or drug use despite negative consequences.
This is an emotional state that you might experience before, during, or after substance use.
What is Internal triggers?
This is learning to make many small decisions
that lead away from alcohol and other drug use and
learning to make many small decisions that help you reduce your mental health symptoms and live a healthy life.
What is Recovery?
The first step in your recovery is to understand why you use drugs or alcohol and your reasons for
wanting to make a change
What is True?
What word starts with E and ends with E but only has one letter in it?
What is an Envelope?
A healthy recovery requires people to change this.
What is their lifestyle?
These include events, places, things, or specific times that you associate with substance use.
What is External Triggers?
This occurs when you feel that alcohol or other drug use can make you feel good, solve your problems,
make your life better, and make you feel complete.
What is Addictive Thinking?
Urges and cravings to use drugs or alcohol do not trigger automatic thoughts.
What is False?
Urges and cravings trigger automatic thoughts. Automatic thoughts are the thoughts that automatically arise in our minds all throughout the day. Often, we are completely unaware we are even having thoughts.
A word I know, six letters it contains, removes one letter, and twelve remains. What am I?
What is Dozens?
All recovering people have certain people, places, emotions, and things that are somehow associated with drinking alcohol or using drugs. These high-risk people, places, things, and feelings are called what.
What is Triggers?
These are related to the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
What is Sensory Triggers?
This is an event, a person, a law, a rule, or a request that requires a person to react in some
way.
What is a Stressor?
The mental activities of cravings and urges disappear over time unless you actively maintain them with your attention.
What is True?
Given time, they will run their course and disappear. If they aren’t gone in 10-15 minutes, then chances are you are still exposed to the stimulus that cued the urge in the first place.
What question can you never answer yes to?
What is Are You Asleep Yet?
In most instances it is what that plays the largest role in determining how we feel, not the situation itself.
What are Automatic Thoughts?
These are the five steps to diffusing triggers.
What is
1. Identify triggers
2. Avoid triggers
3. Interrupt triggers
4. Talk about triggers
5. Thought stopping
These are the three types of stressors.
What is
(1) frustrations,
(2) pressures, and
(3) conflicts
Almost all drugs that are used to get high change how the natural chemicals work in the brain’s
pleasure center.
What is True?
What are the next three letters in this combination? OTTFFSS
What is ENT?
This is how triggers lead to relapse.
What is
• Triggers automatically lead to thoughts about
substance use.
• Thoughts about alcohol or other drugs lead to craving.
• Craving can lead to relapse.
It is a series of decisions—some big steps and some small steps—in the direction of drinking alcohol or using other drugs and in the direction of poor management of the mental health disorder. It is a series of steps in the direction of being unhealthy.
What is Relapse?
Addiction, Mental Health Disorders, and Recovery are all called this.
What are Processes?
a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end.