Ways to Sabotage
Running away for fear of what you may discover about yourself, or need to talk about, while in treatment.
What is Escapism ?
Only looking for evidence of why treatment or suggestions won’t work, while ignoring the evidence of how they do work.
What is stacking the evidence?
Going from one counselor, group, or treatment option to another, discounting what each one offers, looking only for the answers you want to hear.
What is Making the rounds?
When you detach, segregate, and disconnect from others.
What is isolation?
This group helps Alcoholics
What is Alcoholics Anonymous
An emotion that a lot of people have prior to using.
What is Fear?
Instead of focusing on the problem of using, attention is diverted to anything and everything else.
What is De-Focusing ?
Denial through reverse-stereotyping; dependency just doesn’t happen to a “better class of people.”
What is Elitist Attitude?
Seemingly well-intended family members and friends can offer misguided exits from treatment.
What is Family rescuer (going along with the family rescuer)?
Regaining control of your life without the use of substances.
What is Recovery?
An experienced member who guides newcomers through recovery.
What is a sponsor?
We try to hide our ______________ by using substances.
What is our feelings?
Partial participation at best – using the fact of your participation in treatment as a bargaining tool to try to control the direction or intensity of treatment.
What is Negotiation ?
Seeing yourself as different, worse , or more complicated than others, and then deciding that the common recovery strategies that work for others won’t work for you.
What is Being the complicated case?
Withholding the truth limits opportunities for self discovery
What is Keeping secrets?
You are only as sick as your _______________
What is Secrets?
Name the Church where NA is held in Charlottetown
What is Kirk of St. James?
Other than ourselves, who is most affected by our substance use?
Who are Family and /or Friends?
Going through the motions, or saying the right words, without really considering how they apply to your own life and acting on them.
What is Compliance?
Allowing depression and/or feeling sorry for yourself to immobilize you; also, giving yourself compassion-based permission to relapse.
What is Self Pity?
A form of self-protective, self-deception, wherein people prevent themselves from looking at anything negative that might result in them seeing themselves as different from how they like to think of themselves.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
Inpatient Withdrawal Management Unit is better known as ________________.
What is detox?
This recovery group that uses these as goal guides.
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely
What is SMART Recovery?
We must ______________ ourselves for our mistakes.
What is Forgive?
“Playing stupid” Takes away any expectation or obligation that one should understand or contribute to his/her own recovery process.
What is Playing Naïve ?
Having done treatment before does not necessarily mean that one has gained the personal insight and developed solid recovery skills…But he sure does sound good when he knows all the right answers?
What is Professional Patient ?
Being opposed to treatment, because you were “forced” to take it by highway safety, probation, parole, child and family, social services, or some other outside source. You hop through the hoop in order to get what you need, but because you hate being controlled by others, your overall attitude towards your source of referral and treatment itself remains the same.
What is FU2
What is NOT one of the 3 main factors of why some people become addicts? Biology, environment, education, development?
Education.
This meeting serve individuals who are in recovery from narcotics.
What is NA
We want to be ______________ from our addiction.
What is Free?