Support systems
What helps you when you are feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and need to fulfill obligations?
Support Systems
A nautral after-effect of any habitual pleasurable behavior?
Craving
Complacency is what? A _____ _____.
A Slippery Slope
What is fastest addicting drug?
Nicotein
Which step ask you to take a sincere and fearless moral inventory of yourself?
Step 4
When you expect a person to do it all it's a _____ for a ______.
recipe for a bad time (OR) recipe for a disaster
Someone who chooses substitute activities, avoids certain places or people, and utilizes support systems is doing what?
Managing their cravings.
A person who fully understands their strengths and weaknesses is a ______ person.
Confident
What is the most commonly abused/used drug in America?
Marijuana
Things that you are doing that you know you should not be doing?
Character Defects
What are 2 of the 4 areas of support? Not type of support areas of support. (Think of the areas I discussed in the group there where 4 AREAS that the types of support fall into.)
*Community, Health, Home, and Purpose *(community is outside people(AA/NA/Treatment/groups etc) Health is informed decision making and having the information of your own health, Home is family friends and safe living enviroment, and Purpose is mental, work, and personal relationships (boyfriend Girlfriend.)
people, places, and things are what in addiction?
Triggers
Feeling high on life and feels completely in control of their own life ambivalently is experiencing what?
Pink Cloud Syndrome
What is the High Risk acronym H.A.L.T?
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tierd
Psychological process of bringing ones attention to experiences occurring in the moment?
Mindfulness
What are 2 benefits of a support system?
Mental health, better decision making skills, manage cravings and triggers, higher self-esteem, coping with stress or un-favored feelings, control over irrational thoughts.
a craving last for?? *hint ___ to ___ seconds..
30 to 90 seconds
What can you practice to combat complacency? *hint I encourage this often, and it also helps with positive thinking.
Gratefulness
A group of Men and Woman who have a desire to stop using are apart of the _______ fellowship.
12-Step
Mindfulness helps you minimize ____ and helps you become your _____ _____.
Stress and helps you become your Best Self
Why is it important to have more than one person for a support system?
Because one person cannot handle your problems and their own problems all at the same time ALL the time.
Giving into the craving only makes it _____ for the ___ _____...
Stronger for the next time.
A desire or dream that you try to achieve in a certain amount of time is?
A goal
3 indispensable principles to success in recovery are? *hint acronym you heard it in treatment before doing introductions.
H.O.W. Honesty, Open-mindedness, and Willingness.
Emotions are strongly linked to ______ and _____.
Memory and Experience