Values
This is involved in the first step of Twelve Step programs and is an important step in all changes. It means to acknowledge a reality, no matter how bad it is.
What is acceptance? ('Radical acceptance' can also be correct)
This treatment involves being medically monitored for withdrawals and negative, sometimes deadly symptoms after a person stops using drugs or alcohol.
What is detox?
This involves making a plan of action to reach some desired state, condition, or set of circumstances.
What is setting goals?
This disorder involves feeling little to no pleasure, having difficulty getting out of bed, isolation, and having trouble with self-care.
What is depression?
When someone begins to look for reasons to use, or finds ways to make it seem like a good or rational idea.
What are rationalizations, justifications, and/or excuses?
This is where you act for the benefit of others, or freely give to others.
What is service?
This type of therapy emphasizes balance. It involves mindfulness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills. It originated with Marsha M. Linehan.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
This coping skill involves not doing something you feel like doing. You instead do something else that is more healthy, even when it may not feel good initially.
What is 'doing the opposite'?
This disorder involves feeling discomfort, unease, fear, and dread, often for no reason or unknown reasons.
What is anxiety?
This is when someone talks about their drug of choice like it's a good thing they are doing this...
What is 'glorifying?', 'glamorizing', or 'romanticizing'?
This means you are willing to try new things, even when it may be frightening or something you do not want to do. It is also part of an acronym.
What is openness? Or what is being open?
This specific treatment involves processing trauma (and other issues) while stimulating both sides of the brain. Many individuals with PTSD are receiving this treatment.
What is EMDR? (or Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
This involves looking ahead of your next actions at possible, if not probable, consequences.
What is 'playing the tape through?'
This disorder can include symptoms like dissociation, depression, anxiety, trouble sleeping, substance abuse, nightmares, flashbacks, and heightened reactions.
What is PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder?
These three things can be triggers, and can also be what you return to in 'mental relapse'. (Examples: the person who you bought drugs from, the liquor store, and bottles of booze).
what are old people, places and things?
According to the Big Book of AA, these three values are 'essential' and 'indispensable' for recovery. (It is an acronym).
This treatment involves the interaction between feelings, behaviors, and especially thoughts, and how they can affect you.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (or CBT)
This involves something you do to calm yourself down and feel more at ease. (healthy examples: using fidgets, using stress balls, chewing gum)
What is self-soothing, or relaxation skills?
This involves having hallucinations, delusions, agitation, and incoherence. A person with this may be suspicious around others, self-harming, isolating, ... (Hint: Sometimes it is caused by substance abuse, but not always).
What is psychosis?
When you say/think "my use was not that bad," or "I did not use as much as other people," this form of rationalizing is known as ...
What is minimizing?
This means that you know your circumstances, you know what is going on within you, and the current state of things.
What is awareness?
This therapy is based on 'multiplicity' and interactions between inner parts. It often involves resolving traumas and getting people in touch with their 'self'.
What is Internal Family Systems (or IFS) therapy?
This means looking at a situation from a different perspective.
What is reframing?
Often a cause of chronic pain, this is when the central nervous system is highly activated and hypersensitive to pain.
What is Central Sensitization, or central pain syndrome?
Planning your relapse around other people's schedules commonly occurs in this stage of relapse. (Hint: the person has not yet begun to use again).
What is 'mental relapse'?