COPING SKILLS
What is a coping skill?
What is a healthy strategy for managing stress, emotions or cravings
What is addiction?
What is a chronic disease involving continued subdsance use despite harmful consequences.
What is the first step in managing an emotion?
What is recognising it.
What is the goal of recovery?
As Steve says," to live a healthy and funtional life."
Why is recovery routine important?
What is it provides structure and stability
Name 3 healthy coping skills?
what is exercise, music, breathing, journaling, taking a walk, lighting a candle, doing a project
What is a craving?
What is a strong urge to use
Define a secondary emotion. Next, name 4.
What is complex feelings that arise as a reaction to your inital, instictive primary emotions. They are shaped by your past experiences, thoughts, culture expectations and family backgroud rather than hardwired. Examples= Anger, frustration, hurt, guilt, shame, embarrasment, pride, embarrassment.
What does sobriety mean?
What is not using mind altering substances.
Name 3 recovery supports.
What is a counselor, pastor, sponsor, recovery group, family.
Why shoud you have more than 1 coping skill?
What is becuase different emotions and situations require different strategies
What is the difference between tolerance and dependance?
What is tollerance means needing more to achive the same affect and dependance means the body has adapted and may expersience withdrawal when the substance is stopped.
Why is it important to identify your emotion before reacting?
What is it creates awareness and gives you a chance to respond.
Is stopping use enough for long term-recovery?
What should you have before leaving treatment?
What is a relapse prevention and continuing care plan.
What is the difference between a healthy coping skill and avoidance?
What is a coping skill helps you manage and work through the problem. Avoidance simply pushes the problem away without addressing it
Can addiction effect the brain?
Yes, it floods the natural reward circuit with massive amounts of dopamine and rewiring key regions that control pleasure, stress and, self-control. It weakens to connect between the reward center and pre-frontal cortex. (judgment, planning and impulse control)
What can happen when emotions are ignored?
What is they can build in intensity and eventually lead to unhealthy reactions or behaviors.
What else must change other than an absence of a chemical?
What is thinking, behaviors, coping skills, relationships, routines, and lifestyles.
You get invited to a wedding, what should you do?
Evaluate if the event will be triggering and decide if you should even go. If you are feeling good about going, create a safety plan. (drive yourself, stay only for a while, go with a sober support, etc..)
What is problem-focused coping changes the sittuation and emotion-focused coping helps manage the emotional response
What is the Amygdala?
What is the part of the brain that manages stressfull feelings and unease. During withdrawal, it becomes hyperactive creating an intense emotional discomfort which drives a person to use again to avoid the feeling.
What is the differnce between feeling an emotion and acting on an emotion?
What is you cannot always control what you feel, but you can learn to control how you respond.
Is recovery a fast process?
What is No! It is where we get to discover/rediscover who were are, the best parts of us with other people who get us. In time, over time, we can concretely know and habitually obtain a new way of life. Living life on life's terms!
As Kimberly say's, " Slow and steady wins the race."
You are angry, stressed, alone, and thinking about using. What are 3 things you can do before making a decision?
What is pause, leave the situation, call someone, use grounding techniques, go for a walk, attend a meeting, talk to friend/sponsor/family