Processes
What is a process?
Addiction
This approach to recovery emphasizes many small, manageable steps rather than one overwhelming big decision, with each step bringing you closer to sobriety and mental health
Taking it one step at a time
Addictive thinking is also known as?
Relapse Thinking
This actor famously played Jack Dawson in the 1997 film Titanic.
Leonardo DiCaprio
This is the first step in dealing with emotions in recovery, where you identify and label what you are feeling.
For many people with __________ disorders, their mental health problems change over time
Co-occurring
What are small steps?
Relapse Decisions?
This type of thinking, often replaced during recovery, involves irrational beliefs that alcohol or drug use can solve problems and make life better, but can lead to relapse if it resurfaces.
Addictive thinking
This sea witch from The Little Mermaid is known for her evil deal with Ariel, offering her a voice in exchange for her voice.
Ursula
This feeling may indicate that you are missing the company of others or that you want to be close to someone.
What is loneliness
What tends to worsen over time, especially during periods of alcohol or other drug use?
Mental Health Problems.
What are 3 examples of a recovery as a process?
Enter treatment, taking medication for mental health disorder, participate in therapy, attend family sessions, complete treatment program, start attending a 12 step, and make new recovering friends.
This phenomenon involves remembering only the positive aspects of past substance use, while forgetting or exaggerating the negative consequences, and can be a small step toward relapse.
Euphoric Recall
who is your favorite floor staff person.
Miss Kirstie
This feeling may be telling you that you need to leave a dangerous situation or take action to protect yourself.
Fear
This process involves a series of decisions, both big and small, that move individuals toward unhealthy behaviors like alcohol or drug use, or a worsening of mental health disorders.
Relapse
This process, which is exemplified by the Twelve Steps, focuses on achieving recovery through a series of small, manageable decisions or actions, rather than one overwhelming leap.
Taking Small Steps
This means that you think about and focus on the hassles or inconveniences associated with recovery but ignore the benefits and positive aspects of recovery.
Awfulizing abstinence
what part of the facility are people allowed to smoke in? Bonus point if you can name the restricted areas.
Smoke pit. Bonus: Not by the cars, not by RBH, not on the stairs, or by the women and children's room.
In recovery, this action is considered one of the most important tasks, allowing you to share your true emotions with others.
Talking about your feelings
This is the process, not defined by one big decision, but by a series of small decisions that help individuals reduce substance use and mental health symptoms over time.
Recovery
This type of decision, often unnoticed at first, can lead to relapse, such as skipping meetings, missing work, or neglecting medication, long before someone actually drinks, uses drugs, or discontinues treatment.
Small Decisions
This type of thinking involves imagining that alcohol or drugs, or stopping medication, could magically solve your problems, ignoring the real consequences of substance use or medication non-compliance.
Magical Thinking
what are the three times that Medline opens?
6:30am, 12pm, and 6pm.
This type of communication is essential to recovery and cannot be achieved if people are keeping their recovery process a secret.
Honest and open communication