12 Steps
The first step in the 12 steps where individuals admit they have no control over their addiction and that their lives have become unmanageable.
Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable?.
This cognitive distortion involves assuming that something bad is going to happen, even without evidence to support it.
What is catastrophizing
What are the 3 R's of nerve cell communication?
Release
Receptor Rinding
Re-Uptake
This mindfulness technique involves focusing your attention on the present moment, without judgment or distraction.
What is mindful breathing
This term refers to a continuous and gradual process of overcoming addiction, which often involves personal growth and making positive life changes.
Recovery
This step involves making a decision to turn your will and life over to the care of a higher power, as you understand it.
Step 3: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him
This is when a person sees things in black-and-white terms, without considering any middle ground or shades of gray.
What is all-or-nothing thinking
Drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine can increase the release of this neurotransmitter, which is associated with feelings of pleasure and reward.
Dopamine
This technique involves observing and acknowledging your thoughts and emotions without reacting to them.
What is mindful observation
This is the recovery community founded by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in 1935, which promotes peer support to help individuals in overcoming alcoholism.
AA
In this step, individuals make a list of all people they have harmed and become willing to make amends to them.
Step 8: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all
n this cognitive distortion, an individual takes responsibility for events outside of their control, often blaming themselves when things go wrong.
What is personalization
What are the 3 general Brain areas?
Hind Brain- Survival Functions
Mid Brain- Emotion, Memory, Pleasure
Fore Brain- Thinking (Setting Priorities, Decision Making, Impulse Control)
This technique helps you develop awareness of the body’s sensations, which can help reduce anxiety or stress.
What is body scan meditation
This type of help, often used in substance abuse treatment, helps individuals identify and change unhealthy patterns of thinking and behavior.
CBT/Therapy
This step emphasizes that individuals should continue to improve their conscious contact with a higher power through prayer and meditation.
Step 11: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him
This distortion involves assuming that others are focused on you or are negatively judging you, even without any real evidence.
What is mind reading
What determines how you turn out (risk or substance use/mental health issues)?
Who raised you (genetics)
Where you were raised (environment)
How you were raised (socialization)
This is a mindfulness practice in which individuals bring awareness to the sensory experience of eating, paying attention to taste, texture, and hunger cues.
What is mindful eating?
A term used to describe a stage in the recovery process when someone is returning to their normal life after a period of active addiction, sometimes with support from family, friends, or a treatment facility.
reintegration
This is the principle behind the 12th step, which encourages individuals to carry the message of recovery to others who suffer from addiction.
Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs
This involves interpreting a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat, often ignoring any positive outcomes.
What is overgeneralization
What is the natural history of Addiction?
How and Why someone chooses to abuse a substance.
How a person manages pain- could increase or decrease chances of abuse (Psychological/Physical)
Addiction- (Tolerance/Withdrawal)
Tolerance- invisible change to the Dopamine cell when the drug is taken (damage).
Withdrawal- when dopamine has to be boosted chemically/artificially due to damage (that "HIT").
Dependency- managing addiction like a chronic disease.
This form of mindfulness focuses on acceptance, allowing the mind to be present with feelings of discomfort or stress, without trying to avoid them.
What is acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)?
This 12-step program helps people addicted to narcotics and other substances and has a focus on personal growth and service to others.
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