Thinking Errors
The belief that using chemicals will solve all problems.
What is Magical Thinking?
In a venn diagram of "clean mind" and "addict mind", this is in the middle.
What is clear mind?
People, Places, or Things that cause people to have thoughts associated with substance abuse.
What are Triggers?
This 2018 film stars Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, exploring themes of addiction and recovery.
What is A Star is Born?
IOP is an abbreviation for this.
What is Intensive Outpatient?
Remembering, romanticizing, and exaggerating pleasurable aspects of “the high” while blocking out the painful or unpleasant aspects of past chemical use and consequences.
What is Euphoric Recall?
DBT is an abbreviation for this.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy?
H.A.L.T. is an acronym for things that can make individuals more vulnerable for relapse.
What is Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired?
This 2019 movie is the story of Eltons Johns life and his struggles with addiction.
What is Rocketman?
Name at least 5 different kinds of recovery support meetings.
What is AA, NA, SMART, Recovery Dharma, AC of A, Secular Organizations of Sobriety, Celebrate Recovery, The Luckiest Club, Celebrate Recovery, Wellbriety, Women for Sobriety, Dual Diagnosis, and more!
Noticing all of the negatives and exaggerating them while blocking out the positive aspects of recovery.
What is Awfulizing Abstinence?
Engaging with people supportive of recovery and activities that are pleasurable without the use of substances.
What is Community Reinforcement?
A strategy to detach from emotional pain or cravings. Distraction works by focusing outward on the external world rather than inward toward the self.
What is Grounding?
This movie starring Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell focuses on a father-son relationship increasingly strained addiction.
What is Beautiful Boy?
One of the criteria for substance use disorder, this is the experience of needing to use more of a substance to get the same effect OR using the same amount of the substance but with diminished effects.
What is Tolerance?
Failure to acknowledge truth or emotion, often used unconsciously as a defense mechanism.
What is Denial?
To actively cut off all addictive behavior options and build new healthy habits and relationships.
What is Burning Bridges & Building New Ones?
An American psychologist who has been recognized as an expert on substance use disorder and mental health, especially his work with relapse prevention skills.
Who is Terence Gorski?
This 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio is based on the memoir of Jim Carroll and his struggles with addiction.
What is The Basketball Diaries?
The 5 FIT assessments that we request to be completed weekly.
What is Commitment to Sobriety Scale (CSS-5), Desire for Substance Questionnaire (DSQ), Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7), Patient Health Questionnaire -9 (PHQ-9), Working Alliance Inventory Short Form?
Inaccurate or biased thoughts that create negative patterns in the way a person thinks.
What are Cognitive Distortions?
Engaging in behavior that replaces destructive habits that still allows for a release but supports the path to recovery and mental health goals.
What is Alternate Rebellion?
Name the 5 different trigger events for cravings categories.
What is Thought, Environment, Feeling, Behavioral, and Situational?
A 2018 movie, starring Joaquin Phoenix, that is about his struggles with alcoholism and his experience in Alcoholic Anonymous.
What is Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot ?
The three substances with the most dangerous (for some even deadly) withdrawal symptoms.
What is Alcohol, Benzodiazepines and Opioids?