Coping Skills
This coping skill involves focusing on your breathing to calm your nervous system.
What is deep breathing...or what is mindful breathing.
This trigger is a strong desire to use a substance or engage in a behavior, often caused by seeing or thinking about it.
What is a CRAVING?
This therapy term means learning to stay present in the moment.
What is mindfulness.
This addiction involves the compulsive use of alcohol.
What is NOT a process addiction?
This diagnosis is characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest.
What is depression?
This coping skill involves identifying and challenging negative thoughts - often used in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
What is "cognitive restructuring."
This trigger can be a place or situation that reminds someone of their past use or behavior, often leading to relapse.
What is an ENVIRONMENTAL trigger.
This therapy term refers to identifying and changing negative thought patterns.
What is cognitive restructuring?
This addiction involves excess gambling even when it causes harm to your life.
What IS a Process Addiction
This diagnosis involves excessive worry about many things and persists for more than six months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
This coping skill uses guided mental imagery to create a calming, peaceful place in your mind.
What is guided visualization?
This trigger can be an intense emotional state like anger or sadness that makes someone want to cope by using or acting out.
What is an EMOTIONAL trigger.
This therapy term describes the process of accepting thoughts and feelings while committing to actions aligned with values.
What is ACT or Acceptance*Commitment*Therapy.
This addiction involves the compulsive use of nicotine, typically through smoking or vaping.
What IS NOT a Process Addiction.
This diagnosis is marked by periods of elevated mood and energy followed by periods of depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder.
This coping skill involves writing down your thoughts and feelings as a way to process emotions and gain clarity.
What is journaling?
This trigger can be a memory or a flashback of a traumatic event.
What is a TRAUMA trigger?
This therapy term refers to the process of revisiting and changing the meaning of a past experience to reduce its emotional impact.
What is Cognitive Re-processing.
This addiction involves compulsive over-eating, often used as a way to manage emotions.
What IS a Process Addiction.
This diagnosis involves re-experiencing a traumatic event and avoiding reminders of that event.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
This coping skill involves systematically tensing and releasing different muscles groups to reduce physical tension and anxiety.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
This trigger is a subtle change in routine or environment that the person may not even consciously recognize, but it still leads to cravings or urges.
What is an UNCONSCIOUS trigger or what is a SUBTLE trigger.
What is "Parts Work" or what is Internal Family Systems therapy.
This addiction involves compulsive engagement with internet gaming, often leading to significant impairment or distress.
What IS a Process Addiction.
This diagnosis involves a pattern of unstable relationships, self-image, and emotions, often with impulsive behavior.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder.