ADDICTION
A strong, overwhelming urge to use a substance.
What is a craving?
This is a written plan used to identify and handle high-risk situations.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
This coping skill shifts the brain out of "autopilot," which helps you avoid destructive habits and mindless reactions.
What is mindfulness?
PTSD is common knowledge for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder but this is what the C stands for in the emergence of C-PTSD?
What is Complex?
Setting these in your relationship teaches those around you how to treat you and reduces stress.
What are boundaries?
When you need more of a drug to get the same effect as before.
What is tolerance?
A person in recovery who guides and supports another person through the steps.
What is a sponsor?
This coping skill known as the “dive reflex” immediately stimulates the vagus nerve, forcing your heart rate to slow down and helping to instantly interrupt anxiety, panic, or intense emotional distress.
What is dipping your face in ice water.
The ACEs test is a 10-question screening tool for this, the same as the acronym stands for.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences?
This type of relationship means one person sacrifices their own needs to focus on another.
What is codependent?
This term is a pattern of behavior where a loved one unintentionally helps an individual continue their substance misuse.
What is enable?
This step in AA asks you to make "a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all."
What is the 8th step?
This coping skill gets your brain out of the “fight ot flight” response and requires you to breathe in for 4, hold for 4, breathe out for 4 and hold for 4 over 3-5 minutes.
What is box breathing?
This mental "check-out" happens when a person feels disconnected from their body or reality during stress.
What is dissociation?
Most relationship conflicts can be avoided when you learn to improve this.
What is communication?
Addiction is officially classified by medical professionals as a chronic disease of this organ.
What is the brain?
This medication assisted treatment helps people who struggle with opioid addiction, but watch out, you can still overdose on it.
What is methadone?
Try this sensory grounding technique if your mind starts to race and spiral which is causing increasing distress, emotions or a panic attack.
What is holding an ice cube?
This area of the brain often shows reduced gray matter (or size) in individuals who have had childhood trauma and is associated with impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This is one of the most important relationships you should have in recovery.
What is a therapeutic relationship?
Released in abnormally high amounts during substance abuse, this chemical in the brain is responsible for feelings of pleasure and motivation.
What is dopamine?
The "HALT" acronym warns us not to get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or this.
What is tired?
If anxiety or restless legs are keeping you from being able to fall asleep at night, try one of these to help you fall and stay asleep at night.
What is a weighted blanket?
This is a type of therapy that is extremely helpful in processing trauma and has the acronym EMDR.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing?
This common manipulation tactic has the acronym DARVO that stands for this
What is Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.