Coping Skills
This coping skill involves writing down your thoughts and feelings throughout the day.
What is journaling?
This "Invisible fence" is what we enforce around ourselves to protect our recovery and personal space.
What are boundaries?
Many people use substances to temporarily relieve symptoms of this condition involving worry, fear, and tension.
What is anxiety?
This neurotransmitter (brain chemical) is primarily involved in the brain's reward system affected by addiction.
What is dopamine?
A return to substance use after a period of abstinence is called.
What is relapse?
This skill involves "fast-forwarding" in your mind to visualize the negative consequences that would follow if you chose to use.
What is playing the tape forward?
This is a detailed plan for handling triggers and cravings.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
This term refers to when a person experiences both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder at the same time.
What is co-occurring disorders (or dual diagnosis)?
The liver is the organ most affected by this substance.
What is alcohol?
This life-saving medicine can quickly reverse an opioid overdose.
What is Narcan (Naloxone)?
This is the practice of taking time to focus on your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
What is self-care?
Name one warning sign that relapse may be coming.
What is isolation / cravings / negative thinking (etc.)?
Using substances to numb emotional pain or trauma symptoms is an example of this type of coping.
What is self-medication?
These two substances can have life-threatening withdrawal symptoms if not medically managed.
What are alcohol and benzodiazepines?
To ignore, downplay, or distort the reality of your substance use is called.
What is denial?
This skill involves staying present without judging your thoughts or feelings.
What is mindfulness?
This type of relapse happens in thoughts and feelings before physical use.
What is emotional relapse?
This mental health symptom involves feeling disconnected from reality or one’s surroundings, sometimes seen in trauma or substance use.
What is dissociation?
This is a condition that occurs when the body has a reduced reaction to a drug following its repeated use.
What is tolerance?
This myth suggests that if someone looks “functional,” they don’t really have a problem.
What is a functioning addict?
This "breathing" technique involves inhaling for 4 counts, holding for 4, exhaling for 4, and holding for 4 again.
What is Box Breathing (or Square Breathing)?
This is the term for the "whole-patient" approach that combines FDA-approved medications with counseling and behavioral therapies.
What is Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)?
This psychological trait describes the ability to "bounce back" from adversity or difficult experiences.
What is Resilience?
This synthetic opioid is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and is frequently found mixed into other substances.
What is Fentanyl?
In this stage, a person begins to recognize a problem but feels unsure about changing.
What is contemplation?