Terms
A person's refusal to admit or accept that he or she is an alcoholic/addict or has a substance use problem is called ____?
What is Denial?
What are high-risk people, places, things, and feelings that cause thoughts to want to use?
What is Triggers?
True or False: Relapse is a process, it's not an event.
What is True?
What is the definition of Relapse?
What is a return to drinking or drug use after a period of not drinking or using?
Doing something to get your mind off things (take a walk, go to the gym, hobbies)
What is a Distraction?
Convincing yourself that it is okay to engage in addictive behaviors or use substances is called ____?
What is Justification?
What are events, places, things, or specific times that you associate with drinking and drug use? Examples: An old neighborhood where you drank, pay day, a certain time of day.
What is External Triggers?
True or False: Recovery requires more than willpower.
What is True?
Recovery requires lifestyle changes.
Anxiety, nausea, physical weakness are physical responses associated with this...
What is Withdrawal?
The most commonly used and abused drug, after alcohol, is __________.
What is Marijuana?
An idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes a person's mind is called ____?
What is an Obsession?
What is an emotional state that you might experience before, during, or after drinking and drug use?
What is an Internal Trigger?
True or False: The key to Relapse Prevention is understanding that it happens gradually.
What is True?
Anxiety, anger, mood swings, isolation, not asking for help, not going to meetings and poor eating habits are all examples of what type of relapse?
What is Emotional Relapse?
These are abilities or approaches that an addict uses in order to avoid and deal with triggers and cravings.
What are Coping Skills?
An irresistible urge to behave in a certain way, especially against one's conscious wishes is called ____?
What is a Compulsion?
Triggers lead to what?
What are Cravings?
True or False: Poor self care falls under mental relapse.
What is False? (Emotional Relapse)
Start using substances again leading to the possibility of uncontrolled usage is what stage of relapse?
What is Physical Relapse?
Self-care is important to help reduce relapse symptoms. Name 3 self-care activities?
What is journaling, art making, meditation, breathing, etc.
This state of mind is harmful to recovery. Its characterized by being too comfortable or unmotivated to "do the work".
What is Complacency?
What are triggers that relate to the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch? The look of white powders or a specific type of music are examples of this trigger.
What is Sensory Triggers?
True or False: Bargaining, lying and looking for opportunities are a part of physical relapse
What is False? (Mental Relapse)
In what ways can relapse happen WITHOUT using?
What is engaging in your old using behaviors? (which increases the likelihood of substance relapse)
Ex. Isolation, participating in high risk activities, seeking "highs" from other sources, neglecting self care, overindulgence, gambling, obsession
These gives you too much time to be with your own thoughts (2 possible answers).
What is Isolation and Boredom?