Scheduling
Who decides what you put in your schedule?
You do.
The final decision is yours, just be sure you do what you wrote down. Hold yourself accountable, you can also let someone know what you have scheduled so they can hold you accountable.
The better we get to know/learn our patterns and triggers the less intense and more manageable they will become.
True
Keeping track of your patterns by logging them will help you get familiar with them.
What carve out new pathways in our brain?
New thoughts and skills
True or False
All meeting are the same
False
All meeting ARE NOT the same, there are different types of meetings: Speaker meetings, Topic meetings, Step/tradition meetings and Big Book meetings
Free Question:
What is your favorite Ice Cream?
YOUR Answer
True or False
Scheduling can be difficult and tedious if you are not used to it. it is however, an important part of the recovery process.
True
It takes practice, but with consistency it does get easier. People who schedule their time are not actively using, addicted individuals.
Does Pineapple go on pizza?
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The ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning or experience or following injury, is known as what?
Neuroplasticity
What is the title of a person who can help guide the newcomer through the 12 step process?
A Sponsor
True or False
After the use of drugs and alcohol is stopped the brain goes through a biological readjustment. (a healing process)
True
Why is a Schedule necessary?
Your schedule is your structure.
What is the the sequence of a Trigger?
Trigger, Thought, Craving, Use
Event, Thought, Feeling, Behavior
What is the name of the Reward Circuit of the brain?
Limbic System
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If you could sit down and have a conversation with someone real or fictional who would that be and why?
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What type of schedule uses increments of Morning, Midday and Evening?
Block Scheduling
What are the 3 steps in the process for the first and easiest way to stop a craving?
1.Identify the trigger
2.Prevent exposure to the trigger whenever possible
3.Deal with triggers in a different way
What part of the brain is responsible for our executive functions such as Decision making, Logic, Your own reasoning, Decides whether something is good or bad?
The Prefrontal Cortex
True or False
The more one participates in treatment and 12 step meetings, the greater the chance for recovery.
True
The chance of relapse goes up during what stage?
The Wall Stage.
Most common symptoms in this stage is depression, irritability, difficulty concentrating, low energy and lack of enthusiasm.
Research shows that when you put your schedule down on paper and follow a schedule it reduces what?
Stress/Anxiety
what are 2 categories of Triggers?
External and Internal
What are the 3 areas of the limbic system?
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
Amygdala
what is 30 in 30?
30 mutual aid meetings in 30 days
What are the Stages of Recovery?
Withdrawal
The Honeymoon
The Wall
Maintenance