Trauma
Trauma caused by a single event.
What is Acute Trauma?
ACEs stands for this.
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences?
Sights, sounds, smells, tastes, or physical sensations that remind a person of past substance use and may lead to cravings. These are triggered through the five senses.
What is Sensory Triggers
Anything that demands you react, such as a person, deadline, rule, or request.
What is a stressor?
Recovery relationships should be built on this.
What is helping each other?
Trauma that happens over and over again.
What is Chronic Trauma?
How many total ACE categories are included in the questionnaire?
What is 10?
People, places, things, situations, or events outside of a person that increase the desire to use alcohol or drugs. These triggers come from the environment.
What is External Triggers
Stressors are the outside event; this is your inside reaction.
What is stress?
A common danger is replacing drugs with this.
What is an intense relationship/person?
Multiple types of trauma stacked together, often beginning in childhood.
What is Complex Trauma?
These are the three ACE groups.
Thoughts, feelings, emotions, or physical sensations that occur within a person and create an urge to use alcohol or drugs. These triggers come from inside rather than from the environment.
What is internal Triggers
This part of the brain was described as your brain's "smoke detector."
What is the amygdala?
During addiction, this used to run your schedule.
What is getting and using?
Trauma experienced by witnessing harm happen to someone else.
What is Secondary Trauma?
True or False: Your ACE score predicts your future.
What is False? Your score is not your sentence.
A healthy strategy for managing stress or cravings.
What is Coping Skill
Stress caused when something blocks you from a goal.
What is frustration?
Friends who encourage sobriety are considered this.
What is supportive?
When something in the present reopens an old wound.
What is Retraumatization?
ACEs help explain why people may struggle, but trauma-informed care focuses on building this.
What is resilience?
Deliberately staying away from triggers.
Avoidance Strategy
Three factors that shape how people react to stress.
What are perception, tolerance, and support?
Practicing stress-management skills before a crisis makes them easier to use during one.
What is being prepared?