Recovery
A typical craving will last for this long before subsiding.
What is 10/15 Minutes?
You are at heightened risk of relapse when you feel angry, lonely, tired, or hungry; this acronym may help you remember these emotions.
What is H.A.L.T.?
This is the DBT skill with a similar meaning to the phrase, "it is what it is."
What is Radical Acceptance?
Bonus: 100 team points to anyone willing to share a time they’ve practiced Radical Acceptance.
Each year in the US, nearly 85,000 people die from this legal drug, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in our country.
What is Alcohol?
With continued substance abuse, the brain will stop producing this brain chemical that enables pleasure.
What is Dopamine?
Exercise, distractions, therapy, calling a sober friend, and thinking of consequences are all examples of this useful tool.
What is a Coping Skill?
The practice of taking an active role in doing things that improve your well-being and happiness, particularly during periods of stress, is known as this.
What is Self-Care?
Bonus: 100 team points to anyone willing to share their most effective self-care activities/routine.
In DBT, this is the balance between Reasonable Mind and Emotional Mind; a sense of intuition may alert you that you're in this mind.
What is Wise Mind?
This is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the US.
What is Tobacco?
This is the term for when someone is no longer actively using/drinking but still engages in the same unhealthy behaviors.
What is Dry Drunk/User?
To stand up for yourself politely yet firmly when facing a trigger or difficult situation is called this.
What is Assertiveness/Courage/Recovery?
Bonus: 100 team points to anyone willing to share a time they’ve practiced assertiveness to protect their recovery.
Visualization, transcendental, loving-kindness, and progressive relaxation are all variations of this practice.
What is Meditation?
This DBT interpersonal skill is an acronym that can help you more effectively communicate and explain your needs and/or ask for what you want.
What is DEARMAN?
Bonus: 100 team points to anyone who can list the steps of DEARMAN.
There are now more than 13,000 people in this population who are struggling with addiction.
What are Newborn Babies?
These thoughts are harmful in recovery and can be things we tell ourselves to talk us into using again.
What is Relapse Justification?
Bonus: 100 team points to anyone willing to share a time they had a relapse justification thought.
Magnification/Minimization, Discounting the Positives, Black/White Thinking, and Mind Reading are all examples of this.
What are Cognitive Distortions/"Stinking Thinking"?
Bonus: 100 team points to anyone willing to share a time they’ve experienced a Cognitive Distortion.
Doing or thinking something different when you feel yourself being triggered to relapse is known as this.
What is Opposite Action?
These four categories are the primary focus of DBT.
What is Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance, and Emotion Regulation?
Abuse of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drugs is costly to the US, exacting this amount annually in costs related to crime, lost work productivity and healthcare.
What is 600 Billion?
A set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use is known as this.
What is Harm Reduction?
Information to help an individual from using again. This could include 12-step information, important phone numbers, coping skills, and/or healthy recreational activities to participate in.
What is a Relapse Prevention/Aftercare Plan?
A common & effective coping skill that a person in early recovery can develop; a string of behaviors characterized by "a sequence of actions regularly followed.”
What is a Routine?
This DBT distress skill is an acronym that involves emotions, thoughts, activities, contributions, comparisons, pushing away, and sensations.
What is ACCEPTS?
Of those reporting a substance use problem in their lifetime, this amount reported that they were now in recovery, translating to approximately 20.5 million US adults.
What is 75%?
The physical symptoms experienced after detoxification that relate to the "bodily healing" from substance abuse are known as this.
What is PAWS/Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?