Recovery Terminology
This is often described as a single thought to use a substance?
What is a craving?
A core concept of mindfulness, this skill is about noticing thoughts and feelings without trying to judge or change them.
What is acceptance?
What is red and smells like blue paint?
Red paint
When we say yes too often or no too often, what can this be a sign of?
What are poor boundaries?
This neurotransmitter is plays a crucial role in reward and motivation and is heavily impacted by substance use
What is dopamine?
The acronym for the use of medication in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies to treat substance use disorders such as opioid addiction or alcoholism.
What is MAT?
This behavioral technique helps a person stop an overwhelming emotion by focusing their mind on a physical object or sensation in the present moment.
What is grounding?
I have a neck, but no head. I have arms, but no hands. What am I?
A shirt
This concept looks at the different parts of self and how they interact with one another and impact our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
What is the Split Self?
What does PAWS stand for?
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
A common term for when a substance use disorder and mental health disorder occur at the same time.
What is dual diagnosis?
The mental coping skills that involves replacing negative thoughts about substance use with realistic, positive, or more balanced statements.
What is positive self-talk or recovery thinking?
What do the letter "t" and an island have in common?
They are both in the middle of water
This topic emphasized curiosity for self, learning from experiences, and openness for growth.
Hint: Something that children do naturally
What is Discovery?
This part of the brain is responsible for executive functioning which includes judgement and decision making.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This is the cognitive distortion of believing that one can return to casual use without adverse effects, typically leading to relapse.
What is denial?
This principle involved delaying a decision to use, with the goal of letting the craving pass.
What is urge surfing?
A man goes out for a walk during a storm with nothing to protect him from the rain. He doesn’t have a hat, a hood or an umbrella. But by the end of his walk, there isn’t a single wet hair on his head. Why doesn’t the man have wet hair?
He's bald
In the Seeking Safety topic of Honesty, we discussed the two types of honesty. What are they?
What are interpersonal and intrapsychic honesty?
The brains ability to recognize and rewire its neural connections.
The first stage of this three-stage process of returning to substance use.
Hint: It is not about the drug yet
What is an emotional relapse stage?
The cognitive skill of challenging the unhelpful belief that a minor set back, such as a slip, means that a full-blown relapse is inevitable.
What is challenging all-or-nothing thinking?
A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed for 3 nights and left on Friday. How is that possible?
His horse's name is Friday.
Fill in the blanks:
"Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your _____. Watch your _____, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your ______"
What are actions, actions, and destiny?
This part of the brain is responsible for memory and fear. It forms strong connections in addiction to environmental cues which leads to cravings.
What is the amygdala?