Celebrities in Recovery
This Friends star battled with alcoholism and opiate addiction after being prescribed Vicodin for a skiing accident in 1997. After multiple relapsed the actor was able to get sober for good in 2011.
Who is Matthew Perry?
1.Identify the problem 2.Brainstorm possible solutions 3.Consider pros and cons 4.Select the best solution
What are the steps to problem solving?
A repeated activity that continues to cause harm to oneself or others.
What is addiction?
This is a mental and physical reaction to perceived threats. In small doses it can be helpful. I can protect us from danger and focus our attention on problems. However, when it is severe or occurs too frequently, it can be debilitating.
What is Anxiety?
Lowered Inhibition, decreased control over motor skills, inability to concentrate and focus, heart attack, stroke, liver failure, cirrhosis, kidney disease, blackouts, addiction, death.
What are the consequences of alcoholism?
This Grammy winning rapper from Detroit overdosed on prescription pain and sleeping pills in 2007. He celebrated 14 years of sobriety in April of 2022.
People who have learned to use this communication style respect their own needs and feelings as well as those of others.
What is assertive communication?
One's failure to either admit or realize his or her addiction or to recognize and accept the harm it can cause.
What is Denial?
This daytime talk show host and voice of an animated forgetful fish has opened up about her struggles with depression.
Who is Ellen DeGeneres?
Respiratory failure, pulmonary complications, bleeding ulcers, drowsiness, vomiting, painful withdrawal, permanent lung, liver, and kidney damage, addiction, overdose, and death.
What are the consequences of opiates addiction?
This A-list celebrity had to rely on his past experience with addiction and suicide ideation when taking on the role of Jackson Maine in 2018’s “A Star Is Born”.
Who is Bradley Cooper?
The practice of returning to the present moment and holding focus on that moment.
What is grounding?
People with common needs getting together to talk about the problems they struggle with with the guidance of an expert.
What is Group Therapy?
This behavioral and emotional condition influences a person's ability to have a healthy, mutually satisfying relationship, it is also sometimes referred to as "relationship addiction"
What is Co-Dependency?
Increase in violence and aggression, drug-induced psychosis, increase in respiratory problems, increase in cardiovascular problems, severe dental problems, damage to physical appearance, addiction and death.
What are the consequences of methamphetamine use?
This Harry Potter star struggled with alcohol addiction throughout the filming of the blockbuster franchise. Now sober, the star finds peace of mind from physical exercise and therapeutic reading.
Who is Daniel Radcliffe?
Attitude of appreciation where we intentionally acknowledge the blessings our life already has and shift focus away from what we lack.
What is gratitude?
A person, place, thing or event that may result in relapse.
What are triggers?
This Olympic swimmer was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 9, which made is hard for him to get through school. He has recently opened up about his battle with depression and anxiety.
Who is Michael Phelps?
Heart attack, pulmonary embolisms, stroke, ulcers, seizures, brain damage and brain shrinking, premature brain aging, addiction, and death.
What are the consequences of long term cocaine use?
This child actor’s cocaine addiction got her blacklisted in Hollywood at the age of 12, prompting her to enter drug rehab at the age of 13.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
These skills are used in-the-moment to deal with stressful situations.
What are coping skills?
A metabolic process by which the body purges intoxicating or addictive substances or toxins.
What is Detox?
This often overwhelming emotional suffering is a natural response to loss.
Cardiovascular disease, liver and kidney failure, depression, paranoia, seizures, heart palpitations, brain damage, addiction, and death.
What are the consequences of long term MDMA use?