The Addictive Brain
The CEO of the Brain
What is the Prefrontal Cortex
The 3 states of Mind
Reasonable Mind, Emotion Mind, Wise Mind
Being aware of your thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and beliefs
What is Self Awareness
They are internal and external and they lead you to use
What are triggers?
The Cycle that describes what happens in domestic violence relationships
What is the Cycle of Violence
This part of the brain is responsible for fight, flight, or freeze
What is the Amygdala
The 4 Components of DBT
Core Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance
Feeling how someone else feels.
What is empathy?
Finish this cycle Trigger, thought, _____, ______
What is Craving, Use
In this stage the victim is walking on eggshells
What is tension building
This is one of our natural feel good chemicals
What is Dopamine
The disorder that the Marsha Linehan, the founder of DBT has herself
What is Borderline Personality Disorder
If you don't have this component of emotional intelligence, you will stay stuck in the same unhealthy emotional patterns
What is motivation?
The 3 D's that you learned about to assist you with managing cravings
Delay, Distract, and Decide
In this stage extreme violence occurs; Rape, physical violence, or death
The explosive stage
During Addiction, this part of the brain highjacks the entire brain
What is the Basil Ganglia
The Acronym DBT stands for
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
You have to be able to handle these without letting them consume your life
What are relationships
The difference between a lapse and a relapse.
Lapse is using 1 time and stopping, relapse is going into full blown addiction.
In this stage the abuser is nice, calm. loving, and vows to never be abusive again
What is the honeymoon phase
The part of the brain that is responsible for our memory
Hippocampus
Accepting the things that you cannot change
Radical Acceptance
You have to be able to manage these in order to be emotionally intelligent
What are emotions?
The justifications that we use to relapse are known as
What is relapse justification?
The reason that abusers abuse
What is power and control