Coping Skills
Coping skill that involves seeking support from friends, family, or professionals.
What is social support?
A desire or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time.
What are goals?
Abuse of a substance to the point where your body or brain needs the drug to function properly.
What is addiction?
We experience these in our mind, heart and gut and it is important to learn how to manage our reaction to them.
What are feelings/emotions?
Bonus Point Challenge!
This famous rapper has been in the music business for 20+ years and has a movie by the same title as one of his songs and his first mainstream album was The Slim Shady.
Who is Eminem?
Which coping skill involves engaging in physical activities to reduce stress and promote well-being?
What is exercise?
With continued substance abuse, the brain will "D"iscontinue producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure.
What is dopamine?
Need more to get the same effect.
What is tolerance?
It is important to learn to manage this uncomfortable mental experience that can occur when we worry or stress over things.
What is anxiety?
This famous singer, with popular songs such as Tiny Dancer, Bennie & The Jets and Rocket Man, has over 30 years in recovery.
Who is Elton John?
One of the most common & effective coping skills a person in early recovery can develop is, this string of behaviors characterized by "a sequence of actions regularly followed".
What is a routine?
Bonus Point Challenge!
A characteristic that is important within recovery court to establish trust.
What is honesty?
This is a clinical condition where an individual will not acknowledge their substance use as a problem in spite of overwhelming evidence.
What is denial?
We make dozens if not hundreds of these a day with our mind and one of the best ways to improve our lives is to practice making good ones:
What are choices?
This famous actor can be found in box office hits such as Iron Man, Avengers and Tropic Thunder and is very open on how recovery has saved his life.
Who is Robert Downey Jr?
Which coping skill involves deep breathing exercises and muscle relaxation techniques?
What is mindfulness?
To politely yet firmly stand up for yourself when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is assertiveness?
A powerful desire for something that usually passes.
What is a craving?
You can have ups and downs along the way but what matters most is that you keep moving forward. If that is true then you are steadily making this.
What is progress?
This actor, who also has famous actor father and brother, played on the hit comedy show Two and a Half Men, and was married to Denise Richards for a brief period. He had 11 years sobriety before being diagnosed as HIV positive and relapsed but as of October 2019, he celebrated 2 years drug and alcohol free.
Who is Charlie Sheen?
What is the term used to describe the process of intentionally redirecting one's thoughts away from distressing emotions or cravings?
What is thought stopping?
Bonus Point Challenge!
Name some places that society promotes alcohol or drugs that could cause triggers and what should you practice if you see something that could be triggering?
What are movies, advertisements, events, social media platforms, and concerts?
What are coping skills?
Bonus Point Challenge!
People 2. Places 3. Things
What are triggers?
Bonus Point Challenge!
Sometimes addiction can be directly linked to deeply disturbing or distressing experiences that occurred earlier in life all of which is referred to as: _____
What is trauma/PTSD?
A child star now grown adult, famous for her role in films such as E.T. and 50 First Dates, wrote a book called Little Girl Lost at age 15 after coming out of rehab for substance use and a suicide attempt.
Who is Drew Barrymore?