Science & Addiction
Mental Health Disorders
Approaches to Recovery
Healthy Relationships
Historical People with Mental Health Issues
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The rates of heart disease, stroke, HIV, Hepatitis, and mental disorders move in this direction when addiction is also present.

What is- Increase, go up, or get worse?

100

This is the term for a persistent, strong, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity.

What is a Phobia?

100

This is the practice of regularly taking time to focus on your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being

What is Self-care?

100

This term refers to the healthy ability to understand the thoughts, feelings, and experiences of another.

What is Empathy or empathizing?

100

Perhaps the most well know composer in history, this famous music writer supposedly suffered with bipolar disorder in addition to going deaf

Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?

200

Whatever the substance is, once addiction to that substance occurs for long enough this important organ drastically changes the way it functions

What is the brain?

200

This mental health disorder is characterized by extreme mood swings, including periods of mania and depression.

What is Bipolar Disorder?

200

Some people in recovery need help with past difficult life events, distressing experiences, and memories often referred to as a history of

What is Trauma?

200

To maintain healthy relationships, we should identify and communicate these physical, psychological, and emotional limits to protect ourselves from being used, manipulated, or violated by others.

What are Boundaries?

200

Despite being one of the most well-known and well-respected US historical figures, this 16th president of the US was known to struggle with a mood disorder

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

300

This neurotransmitter is closely linked to the mind's reward system and is commonly associated with pleasure and reinforcement.

What is Dopamine?

300

What does the acronym PTSD stand for?

What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

300

This evidence-based approach to maintaining recovery from addiction involves identifying triggers and warning signs and then developing specific coping strategies to avoid a return to negative behaviors.

What is Relapse Prevention?

300

This is the two-word term for the cooperative process of effectively resolving disputes and settling interpersonal arguments and fights in a positive manner that both sides can agree upon

What is Conflict Resolution?

300

This legendary Dutch painter, known for "Starry Night," grappled with mental health issues, even to the point where he knowingly cut off part of his own ear

Who is Vincent van Gogh?

400

These hormones often referred to as the "feel-good" hormones, are released during activities that promote well-being, like exercise, laughter, creative expression, and socialization.

What are Endorphins?

400

This is the term for a sudden, intense, and overwhelming episode of fear or discomfort, often accompanied by physical symptoms like a racing heart, shortness of breath, and sweating.

What is a Panic Attack?

400

This skills-based form of treatment used in substance use and mental health recovery focuses on identifying and changing thinking patterns to help change feelings and negative behaviors. Hint: also known as CBT.

What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

400

This two-word term describes when you carefully hear and focus on what another person is saying and then repeat back what you heard to confirm that you understood them.

What is Active Listening or Reflective Listening?

400

One of the most well know artists to ever live, this Italian genius is thought to have an anxiety disorder and possibly even autism, but that did not stop him from completing his four-year masterpiece of painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Who is Michelangelo?
500

This highly advanced and complex area of the human brain is associated with decision-making and impulse control, and is strongly impacted by addiction and intoxication

What is the Prefrontal Cortex?

500

This mental health disorder is characterized by persistent and intrusive thoughts followed by repetitive behaviors or rituals aimed at reducing anxiety.

What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder or OCD?

500

This approach to addiction recovery focuses on minimizing the negative consequences associated with active substance use by providing tools, strategies, resources, and supports to reduce the risks and dangers associated with that use.

What is Harm reduction?

500

This refers to a close and profound emotional, psychological, and physical connection between individuals. that involves a deep level of trust, respect, vulnerability, and mutual understanding.

What is Intimacy?

500

One of the original writers of the “horror” genre, this legendary author from the 1800’s suffered from grief and depression. (Hint- His last name is also one of the Teletubbies)

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

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