Habits
Actions that unintentionally support or excuse someone else's harmful actions, often with the goal of protecting them or helping them, but ultimately preventing them from taking responsibility or facing the consequences of their choices.
What is Enabling?
External or internal cues that cause a person in recovery to crave drugs and perhaps even relapse.
What are triggers?
This is the practice of regularly taking time to focus on your own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
What is self-care?
A strong addictive urge that can pull you in a way you may not want to go if you are not careful.
What is a craving?
This condition, often linked to addiction, is characterized by the inability to feel pleasure or interest in previously enjoyable activities.
What is Anhedonia?
Physical, psychological, and emotional limits intended to protect ourselves from being used or manipulated by others.
What are Boundaries?
This chemical is closely linked to the mind's reward system and is commonly associated with pleasure and reinforcement.
What is Dopamine?
A condition that occurs when discontinuing use of a substance to which a person has become dependent or addicted, which can include negative emotions such as stress, anxiety, or depression, as well as physical effects such as nausea, vomiting, etc.
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
Managing your addiction and regaining control of your life.
What is recovery?
This is the term for a sudden, intense, and overwhelming episode of fear or discomfort, often accompanied by physical symptoms like a racing heart, shortness of breath, and sweating.
What is a Panic Attack?
A sense of connection to something greater than oneself, which can include a search for meaning in life, a connection to nature, or a relationship with a higher power.
What is spirituality?
Chronic liver disease marked by scarring of liver tissue and eventual liver failure.
What is Cirrhosis?
A state in which an organism only functions normally in the presence of a substance, experiencing physical disturbance when the substance is removed.
What is Dependence?
The essential inner drive, focus and desire, that brings about positive change and attainment of goals.
What is motivation?
Some people in recovery need help with past difficult life events, distressing experiences, and memories often referred to as a history of...
What is trauma?
This is the term for a persistent, strong, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity.
What is a Phobia?
An episode of delusions or hallucinations as a result of substance use or certain psychiatric disorder(s).
What is psychosis?
Drinking 5 or more standard alcoholic drinks, and for women, 4 or more standard alcoholic drinks on the same occasion on at least 1 day in the past 30 days.
What is Binge Drinking?
This phrase describes an unpleasant physical reaction that people experience when they suddenly stop taking a drug that they have become addicted to.
What is "Cold Turkey"?
Failure to recognize the truth about a problem, particularly an addiction, is often referred to as this.
What is Denial?
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in response to their obsessions. They may include checking, counting, cleaning, organizing, or avoiding certain situations.
What are Compulsions?
Gambling, binge eating, excessive spending, and hoarding are all examples of...
Behavioral Addictions.
A person who refrains from alcohol or drugs but still has all the unresolved emotional and psychological issues which might have fueled the addiction to begin with.
What is a "Dry Drunk"?
This approach to addiction recovery focuses on minimizing the negative consequences associated with active substance use by providing tools, strategies, resources, and supports to reduce the risks and dangers associated with that use.
What is Harm Reduction?
This mental health disorder is characterized by extreme mood swings, including periods of mania and depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?