DSM 5
triggers
Relapse
Defense mechanisms
Tolerance
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What is the DSM 5

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition), shortened to DSM-5, is the guide used by clinicians to diagnose mental health conditions. It’s published by a professional body called the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and updated as new research emerges. The fifth edition is the most current iteration and was released in 2013.

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define triggers

Alcohol use triggers are events, people, places, social interactions, situations, and emotions that make a recovering addict feel the need for and then actually reach out for a drink. Yielding to triggers is the first step that for many people marks the start of the road to relapse.

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What does it mean by relapse is a process

It typically starts with behaviors and actions weeks and months prior to the actual intake.

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define defense mechanisms

—A mental maneuver that one consciously or unconsciously chooses to use to distort or falsify the truth of one’s experience in order to protect oneself from feeling painful emotions like shame, guilt, or anxiety.

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This is the hormone that stabilizes our mood

seratonin

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How many Criteria are there for a Substance use Disorder?

11

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define dry drunk

expression that describes an alcoholic who no longer drinks but otherwise maintains the same behavior patterns of an alcoholic

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who has helped people  that relapsed for almost a hundred years

Alcoholics Anonymous 

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Define Regression

When adult defense mechanisms stop working for us, we regress to a personality we had at childhood

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This hormone plays on our reward centers. I do this I feel happy so i will do it again

Dopamine

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How many criteria for a SUD Mild

2-3

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Finish this phrase "if you hang out in a barber shop long enough...'

you are gonna get a hair cut

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Working on these three things can help with relapse prevention

Mind, Body, Spirit

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Define repression

—The person forces the unacceptable or threatening feeling out of awareness to a point where he/she becomes unaware of it. Also known as "stuffing"

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As my tolerance increases this happens to my neurotransmitters. 

The get used to having alcohol and need more to feel the same effect.

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How many criteria for SUD moderate?

4-5

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These can typically help a person justify their use after being triggered

Defense mechanisms

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These are dangerous situations that one may find themselves in that could lead to relapse. 

High Risk Situations

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Define Denial

—The person doesn’t acknowledge the validity of the matter but acknowledges its presence.  They oppose force with force.

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How do you build up tolerance.

By continued use

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How many criteria for a SUD Severe?

6 or more

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Define HALT

Hungry Angry Lonely Tired main triggers associated with relapse

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Define Apparently Irrelevant Decisions

series of covert decisions or choices, each of them seemingly inconsequential, which in combination set the person up for situations with overwhelmingly high risk.

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Define minimizing

 

By minimizing the negative consequences the abuse can again avoid the reality that something needs to change.

 Helps to reduce the emotional discomfort that might come – helps the abuser feel better about themselves

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These can play in to factors contributing my tolerance

Family history of addiction. Addiction to other chemicals such as pain medication.

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