Seeking Safety
What is the word that is defined as: a mental process of disconnecting from one's thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity?
What is to Disassociate
An example of mental grounding
What is picturing your happy place.
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To recover is to be _____ for the first time again, it's like being reborn.
What is recovery.
The first step on the road to recovery
What is admitting I have a problem.
What is Recovery
An organ that is responsible for removing alcohol and other harmful substances from the body
Staying away from triggers that lead to urges.
What is avoidance
This is what you get when you begin to heal
What is being painfully honest
Addiction without lies is like recovery without
What is truth
This protects your energy and the energy of people around you...
What is Boundaries
Can produce irritability, mood disturbances, restlessness, paranoia and auditory hallucinations
Concentrate on something other than your thought/urge.
What is distracting yourself.
When you decide to attack the threat head on
What is fight (body's response to situations that could cause harm to the body)
This is not about one's family, or friends its about you
What is being selfish
What is controlling emotions.
Causes many types of heart problems, inflammation of the heart lining, and damage blood vessels, and skin abscesses.
What is Methamphetamine
Get away from the urge-provoking situation
What is Escape
The tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes
What is Homeostasis
People, places, objects, feelings, and times that cause cravings
What is triggers
A deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements.
What is Respect
Creates scarred an/or collapsed veins, bacterial infections of the blood vessels and heart valves abscesses, boils, and other soft tissue infections
What is heroin
Thinking of a moment when you realized using was a problem for you, or a moment when you knew that changing your addictive behavior was, without question, the right thing to do
What is "Recall moments of clarity"
The model neurotransmitter that is most responsible for communicating pleasure
What is Dopamine
Impulsive urges to use that have a physiological basis
What are Cravings
This shines through as self-confidence
What is self respect