12 Steps
This person helps you work through the 12 steps.
What is a sponsor?
A persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.
What is depression?
The action or process of regaining possession or control of something stolen or lost.
What is recovery?
A person trained to give guidance on personal, social, or psychological problems; providing support and individualized treatment.
What is a counselor?
Paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.
What is mindfulness?
Admitting powerlessness over the addiction.
What is the first step of AA?
Intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations.
What is anxiety?
"To fall or slip back into a former state, practice, etc."
What is relapse?
A physical or mental dependence on a behavior or substance that a person feels powerless to stop.
What is addiction?
Psycho-social abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life.
What are life skills?
A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength, and hope in order to solve their common problems.
What is Al-Anon?
A psychological, emotional response to an event or an experience that is deeply distressing or disturbing; often feeling a loss of control, loss of freedom, and/or loss of safety.
What is trauma?
Anything that provokes a memory or impulse to resume using drugs or alcohol, especially for a person who is in recovery or has completed a substance abuse treatment program.
What is a trigger?
A kind of treatment service and support program that is often utilized after completing residential treatment; allowing individuals to often work while still receiving treatment.
What is IOP?
Pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance.
What are the stages of change?
The founders of AA.
Who is Bill Wilson and Bob Smith?
A serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally; may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling.
What is schizophrenia?
This is a common coping skill to work through cravings; helping them to decrease over time.
What is urge surging?
The use of FDA- approved medications, in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies, to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of substance use disorders.
What is Medical Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
Having a mental health disorder and addiction.
What is co-occurring disorders?
The basic premise of the 12-step philosophy.
What is "People can help one another achieve and maintain abstinence from substances of abuse, but that healing cannot come about unless people with addictions surrender to a higher power?"
A type of mental disorder in which you have a rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning and/or behaving. A person with this disorder has trouble perceiving and relating to situations and people.
What is personality disorder?
A great tool that can be used to recognize and manage the warning signs of relapse and sustain a healthy, sober lifestyle.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
Finding peace with yourself, with life and its ups and downs, developing the discipline to remain sober, and abstinence.
Any activity that we do deliberately in order to take care of our mental, emotional, and physical health.
What is self-care?