Terms & Definitions
This is a characteristic of addiction.
What is addiction is chronic?
What is addiction grows worse over time?
What is addiction involves compulsion?
What is addiction involves loss of control?
What is addiction involves continued use despite serious problems?
What is integrated treatment?
This is a reason that co-occurring disorders are considered diseases.
What is co-occurring disorders do not develop because a person is weak, lacked willpower, or was sinful?
What is co-occurring disorders are medical or health problems?
What is co-occurring disorders need medical treatments?
This is a reason that in people with co-occurring disorders, both disorders need to be treated.
What is co-occurring disorders are serious health problems?
What is without treatment, both diseases will follow their own predictable paths, worsen over time, and make life increasingly miserable?
What is getting treatment for one disorder does not make the other disorder disappear?
What is both disorders are brain diseases and involve brain chemicals that are out of balance?
What is treatment for one disorder helps the other disorder?
This is a way in which symptoms of depression might affect recovery from alcohol or other drug addiction.
What is depression interferes with a person's social functioning and activities of daily living?
What is depression often leads to negative thinking and despair?
This is a characteristic of a mental health disorder.
What is mental health disorders are abnormal mental conditions?
What is mental health disorders involve discomfort or distress?
What is mental health disorders hurt people's functioning?
This is a characteristic of depressive disorders.
What is intense sadness?
What is no energy?
What is feeling empty?
What is no interest or pleasure in most things?
What is loss of appetite or increase in appetite?
What is insomnia or sleeping too much?
What is feeling mentally or physically tired?
What is intense guilt, helplessness, or hopelessness?
What is intense loneliness or worthlessness?
What is trouble concentrating or making decisions?
What is having recurring thoughts of death?
What is feeling abandoned or fearing being abandoned?
This is a reason that co-occurring disorders are brain diseases.
What is current research shows that the brains of people with addiction and mental health disorders are different from the brains of people without these diseases?
What is co-occurring disorders often involve an imbalance in the chemicals of the brain?
This is a reason that for people with co-occurring disorders, both disorders need targeted treatment.
What is as you receive treatment and improve in relation to one disorder, you have a greater ability to participate in treatment and improve in relation to the other disorder?
This is a way in which symptoms of mania in bipolar disorder might affect recovery from alcohol or other drug addiction.
What is mania can be unpleasant and frightening to the individual involved?
What is bipolar disorder causes personal distress and serious problems in important areas of a person's life (i.e., social interactions, family, school, work, etc.)?
This is a term used to describe the presence of both a substance use disorder and a mental health disorder in the same person.
What are co-occurring disorders?
What are co-existing disorders?
What are co-morbid disorders?
What are dual disorders/dual diagnoses?
This is a characteristic of manic episodes in people with bipolar disorder.
What is high energy?
What is increased activity?
What is the need to talk a lot?
What is having racing ideas and thoughts?
What is impulsivity?
What is irritability and agitation?
What is belligerence and anger?
What is easily distracted?
What is grandiosity?
What is not feeling the need to sleep?
This is a reason that co-occurring disorders are independent.
What is each of the disorders has a life of its own and does not need the other to exist?
What is one disorder did not cause or create the other disorders?
What is each disease has its own set of symptoms, its own predictable path that it will follow, and its own treatment?
What is one is not more important than the other?
This is a reason that co-occurring disorders are considered chronic disorders.
What is co-occurring disorders are long lasting?
What are co-occurring disorders often involve periods of relapse?
This is a common symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder.
What is re-experiencing the traumatic event (i.e., unwanted images or thoughts of the event that occur over and over, distressing dreams of the event that occur over and over, flashbacks or feeling as though the event were reoccurring, intense anxiety from things that resemble the event, physical symptoms of fear)?
What is avoiding and numbing (i.e., avoiding thoughts, feelings, and conversations about the event; avoiding activities, places, or people that bring up memories of the event; not remembering important things about the event; lowered interest in participating in activities; feeling detached from other people; being unable to express normal feelings; feeling that things won't work out)?
What is increased arousal (i.e., insomnia, irritability or anger, poor concentration, over-alertness; being easily scared or startled)?
This is a characteristic of disease.
What is an abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person?
What is people who have the same disease have very similar symptoms?
What is diseases tend to follow a predictable course or path?
What is most diseases can be treated?
This describes what happens when a person suddenly experiences intense fear, anxiety, and impending doom.
What is a panic attack?
This is a reason that co-occurring disorders can vary in intensity.
What is co-occurring disorders can be mild, moderate, or severe in teams of symptoms, discomfort, and the ways they disrupt day-to-day functioning?
This is a reason that relapse is not a sign of failure.
What is relapse is a sign that a person's treatment or recovery needs to be strengthened?
What is it is not unusual for people to go through treatment more than once before they achieve long-lasting sobriety/recovery?
What is recovery is an opportunity to review what is working, identify what is not working, and strengthen your recovery program?
This is a common characteristic of obsessions found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What is fear of contamination or dirt?
What is having repeated doubts?
What is the need for order or symmetry?
What is having aggressive impulses?
What is having sexual impulses?
This is an example of a brain disease.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
What is Parkinson's disease?
What is a stroke?
What is schizophrenia?
What is an anxiety disorder?
What is depression?
What is addiction?
What is bipolar disorder?
This is a strong, irrational fear and avoidance of an object or situation.
What is a phobia?
This is a reason that co-occurring disorders are considered treatable.
What is many people receive good treatment and are recovering from co-occurring disorders?
What is new medications and therapies are continually being developed for mental health and substance use disorders?
This is an example of how many people strengthen their recovery after a relapse.
What is speak to their physician about their medications?
What is increase the number of 12-step meetings they attend each week?
What is increase their participation at 12-step meetings?
What is attend individual therapy?
What is attend group therapy?
What is attend family therapy?
What is develop their stress-reduction skills?
What is develop their relapse-prevention skills?
What is increase their vocational skills?
This is a common characteristic of compulsions found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
What is checking?
What is washing?
What is counting?
What is arranging and making items appear orderly?
What is repeating words silently?
What is demanding reassurances?