This therapy focuses on challenging and changing thinking distortions and behaviors and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.
CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
Symptoms:
Cognitive: absent-mindedness, difficulty focusing, forgetfulness, problem paying attention, or short attention span
Mood: anger, anxiety, boredom, excitement, or mood swings
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Symptoms include an excessive need for admiration, disregard for others' feelings, an inability to handle any criticism, and a sense of entitlement.
Along with grandiosity, callous and unemotional traits, disregard for others' feelings, excessive need for admiration, or social isolation.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
In this step we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Step 4
Symptoms:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
This psychotherapy began with efforts to treat borderline personality disorder. This therapy is useful in treating mood disorders, suicidal ideation, and for change in emotional regulation and behavioral patterns such as self-harm and substance abuse.
DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)
Depressive episodes may include symptoms such as low energy, low motivation, and loss of interest in daily activities. Mood episodes last days to months at a time and may also be associated with suicidal thoughts. Manic episodes may include symptoms such as high energy, reduced need for sleep, and loss of touch with reality.
Bipolar Disorder
Symptoms include a tendency to lie, break laws, act impulsively, and lack regard for their own safety or the safety of others. Symptoms may lessen with age.
Behavioral: deceitfulness, hostility, irresponsibility, manipulativeness, risk taking behaviors, aggression, impulsivity, irritability, or lack of restraint
Mood: anger, boredom, or general discontent
Antisocial Personality Disorder
In this step we admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
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Physical symptoms during an attack, such as a pounding or racing heart, sweating, chills, trembling, breathing problems, weakness or dizziness, tingly or numb hands, chest pain, stomach pain, and nausea. An intense worry or impeding doom about when the next attack will happen.
Panic Disorder
This is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
Meditation
Symptoms:
Schizophrenia
Borderline Personality Disorder
In this step we admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
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Specific Types:
Phobias
This therapy is based on the idea that negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors are the result of unprocessed memories. The treatment involves standardized procedures that include focusing simultaneously on (a) spontaneous associations of traumatic images, thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations and (b) bilateral stimulation that is most commonly in the form of repeated eye movements.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)
These symptoms may include nightmares or unwanted memories of the trauma, avoidance of situations that bring back memories of the trauma, heightened reactions, anxiety, or depressed mood.
PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)
Symptoms:
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
In this step we have had a spiritual awakening as the result of the Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Step 12
Symptoms:
Everyday social interactions cause irrational anxiety, fear, self-consciousness, and embarrassment.
Symptoms may include excess fear of situations in which one may be judged, worry about embarrassment or humiliation, or concern about offending someone.
Social Anxiety Disorder
This therapy is a technique in behavior therapy to treat anxiety and phobia disorders. This therapy involves showing the patient the anxiety source or its context without the intention to cause any danger. Doing so is thought to help them desensitize their anxiety or distress.
Exposure Therapy
Symptoms:
Meets the criteria for Schizophrenia along with experiencing major depressive or manic episodes
Schizoaffective Disorder
Symptoms:
Dependent Personality Disorder
In this step we made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Step 8
Fear of places and situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.
Symptoms include fear and avoidance of places and situations that might cause feelings of panic, entrapment, helplessness, or embarrassment. Can lead to a person being confined to their household with the fear of leaving.
Agoraphobia