coping with cravings
The typical craving will pass if you wait this many minutes.
What is 5 minutes?
This type of therapy involves more than one person with a facilitator.
These are activities that give our lives meaning. They are like a compass–they help us make choices based on the directions in which we want our lives to go
What are values?
This mental health disorder includes symptoms such as low energy, low motivation, and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness lasting for at least 6 months.
Detox from these two drugs is the most dangerous.
What is alcohol and benzos?
What you should do if you are in AA/NA/SA and you are experiencing cravings and need support.
What is call your sponsor?
This type of therapy encourages people to embrace their thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them
This is a skill or technique that is primarily used to detach, separate, or get some distance from our thoughts and emotions
What is defusion?
Symptoms of this disorder include constant worry, restlessness, and trouble with concentration.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This drug was originally used as a non-addictive, safe remedy for morphine addiction.
What is heroin?
Our brain learns by ________ and _________.
repetition and reward
This is a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations
What is mindfulness?
This is Fusion, Excessive goals, Avoidance of discomfort, and Remoteness
What is FEAR?
All people who suffered a trauma have PTSD.
What is false.
This drug causes devastating health effects, and sometimes death, even on the first try. It speeds up the body’s systems to dangerous levels. Chronic users experience anxiety, confusion, insomnia, paranoia, aggression, and more.
What is meth?
Provides something else to engage in other than drug use
This therapy is a short-term approach to mental health treatment. It’s similar to behavioral therapy, but it also addresses unhelpful thought patterns or problematic thoughts.
What is CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy)?
A process that involves attaching a thought to an experience
What is cognitive fusion?
What is a psychotic disorder (such as schizophrenia).
Bone marrow damage, liver and kidney damage, blackouts, limb spasms, hearing loss and the loss of brain cells are consequences from abusing this type of drugs
What are inhalants?
This helps to eliminate some cravings and is offered at LaurelCare
What is MAT (Medication-assisted treatment)?
This type of therapy involves a person recalling a traumatic event while performing specific eye movements.
What is EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy)?
Who is the founder of acceptance and commitment therapy?
Steven Hayes
This person is recognized as the founder of psychology.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
This is the fastest addicting drug.
What is nicotine?