Negative Coping Skills
The act of avoiding and distancing yourself from the community.
What is isolating?
To use your creativity to paint, draw, or write.
What is art?
Who wrote the Doctor's opinion?
Who is Dr. Silkworth?
Name the co-founders of AA.
Who are Dr. Bob and Bill W.?
A treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual’s life experiences.
What is addiction?
An excessive reliance on other people for approval and a sense of identity.
What is Codependency?
To put your thoughts down on paper.
What is journaling?
Who is the certain American business man of good earning capacity that the Doctor mentions?
Who is Bill W.?
What was Bill W.'s profession?
What is a stockbroker?
What is the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction?
What is Dopamine?
The ability to express positive and negative ideas and feelings in an open, honest and direct way. It recognizes our rights while respecting the rights of others.
What is assertive communication?
To talk to a therapist or counselor.
What is therapy?
What's the definition of altruistic?
What is without profit or motive?
What is the birthdate of AA?
What is June 10th, 1935?
What is the most commonly used drug in the US?
What is Marijuana?
A mode of communication and behavior where one expresses their feelings, needs, and rights without regard or respect for the needs, rights, and feelings of others.
What is aggressive communication?
An imaginary line that separates me from you. They separate your physical space, your feelings, needs, and responsibilities from others. They also tell other people how they can treat you – what’s acceptable and what isn’t.
What are boundaries?
We suffer from a mental _______ and physical __________.
What is obsession, and craving?
Why is the founding date of AA significant?
What is Dr. Bob's sobriety date?
In 2018, 26.45% of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in ______ in the past month.
What is binge drinking?
When people do something to make their success on a task less likely to happen. People do this so that they will have a built-in excuse if they fail.
What is self-handicapping?
A tool we can use to soothe and calm ourselves when we’re anxious or distressed, without using medication or resorting to any negative coping strategies. It’s a way of comforting, nurturing, and being kind to ourselves.
What is self-soothing?
__________, ________, _________ seldom suffices.
What is frothy, emotional, appeal?
What is the name of the hospital where Bill W. went and met Dr. William D. Silkworth?
What is Towns Hospital?
About __ to __ of people with addiction experience at least one relapse after an initial recovery.
40% to 60%