Relapse Prevention
All recovering people have certain people, places, emotions, and things that are somehow associated with drinking or using drugs.
What are triggers?
Drugs cause this chemical in your brain to release more than average amounts.
What is Dopamine
This is feelings of worry, racing thoughts, and restlessness are signs of this.
What is Anxiety?
Interpreting the thoughts and beliefs of others without adequate evidence.
What is Mind Reading?
Seeing only the worst possible outcomes of a sidtuation.
What is Catastrophizing?
is simply the awareness that there is something beyond that which can be seen.
What is Spirituality?
Addiction physically affects this organ in the body.
What is the brain?
These are feelings, experiences, people, places, and things that you associate with your drinking or drug use.
What are Triggers?
This technique involves picturing a light switch in your mind.
What is The Mental Switch?
These are irrational thoughts that can influence your emotions.
What are Cognitive Distortions?
This involves a specific expression of belief about a superhuman power or powers.
What is Religion?
The process by which the body rids itself of drugs.
What is Detoxification
These are feelings that people have before or during drinking or using drugs.
What are Internal Triggers
The belief that one is responsible for events outside of their own control.
What is Personalization?
Assuming something is true based on feeling even if there's no evidence proving it to be true.
What is Emotional Reasoning?
A healthy recovery requires people to change their.
What are Life-Stiles?
This is the only drug that you can die from withdrawals.
What is Alcohol
These are the people, places, and things associated with drinking or using drugs.
What are External Triggers?
The belief that things should be a certain way.
What are"Should" Statements?
Making broad interpretations from a single or few events.
What is Overgeneralization?
With this defense mechanism, people do not let themselves think about threatening or painful thoughts, feelings, desires, memories, or beliefs.
What is Repression
These are emotional or physical limits that people set to create a healthy sense of personal space.
What are boundaries
These are related to the senses of sight, sound, taste, and touch.
What are Sensory Triggers?
The belief that acts will influence unrelated situations.
What is Magical Thinking?
The expectation that a situation will turn out badly without adequate efidence.
What is Fortune Telling?
This is a defense mechanism in which people return to ways of dealing with the world that they have long since outgrown.
What is Regression?
These are naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that carry messages between special cells called neurons
What are Neurotransmittersare
The first step in dealing with triggers is to what?
What is Identifiying them?
You can promote this by using a number of different techniques.
What is Relaxation
Recognizing only the negative aspects of a situation while ignoring the positive.
What is Disqualifying the Positive?
An individual's reaction to stress usually goes through three stages:
What is Alarm, Resistance, Echaustion
The loss of control, and continued use despite negative consequences.
What is Physical Dependence?
Some triggers can't be avoided; instead, you will need to do this.
What is Interrupt them?
Some triggers, such as pay day or Friday nights, can't be avoided, but you can do this so these triggers have less power.
What is Change your Routine?
Interpreting the meaning of a situation with little or no evidence.
What is Jumping to Conclusions?
There are three main types of stressors:
What are Frustrations, Conflicts, and Pressures?
This describes a situation in which the body becomes extremely sensitive to a drug.
What is Reverse Tolerance?
When you become aware that a particular situation, person, place, or thing is a trigger, you should.
What is Avoid or Leave the trigger?
Process that allows you to sit still, clear your mind, and focus on breathing.
What is Meditation
Thinking in absolutes such as "always", "never", or "every"
What is All-or-Nothing Thinking?