Brain Chemistry
The happy chemical
Serotonin
Neurons that fire together.....
Wire together
A refusal to acknowledge a real situation.
Denial
This famous rock star died officially of heart failure, but after his death reportedly was found to contain high dosages of, among other things, the opiate Dilaudid, Percodan, and Demerol, as well as Quaaludes and codeine.
King of rock 'n roll
Elvis Presley
When your body requires larger amounts of a drug to get the same effect.
Tolerance
This chemical promotes salience and motivation
Dopamine
To live is to suffer and to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.
Author?
Friedrich Nietzche
Justifying illogical, unreasonable ideas, actions or feelings by developing acceptable explanations.
Rationalization.
This music artist had a hit pop song come out a few years before her death called "Rehab"
Amy Winehouse
The occurrence of mental and physical problems when someone who is addicted stops using a drug.
Withdrawal
The stress Hormone
Cortisol
A study conducted using rodents that showed the importance of a social environment.
Rat Park
Transferring feelings from one source to a less threatening source.
Displacement
This film follows the lives of four New Yorkers through their addiction.
Requiem for a dream
Occurs when alcohol concentration in the blood reaches near-critical levels.
Alcohol poisoning
The love chemical
Oxytocin
Psychologist Martin Seligman performed studies on puppies showing the effects of trauma on the mind.
Learned Helplessness
Forgetting a memory in the conscious mind by pulling it into the unconscious
Repression
This singer/songwriter experienced a 20-year drug and alcohol addiction that he said saw him spending about 16,000 a week on heroin in the 1970's.
Eric Clapton
He chose to get clean and change his lefe after the death of his 4 year old son.
What does HALT stand for?
Hungry
Angry
Lonely
Tired
Fight or flight
Norepinephrine
A study performed on children showing the significance of being exposed to triggers and the depletion of willpower,
Stanford Marshmallow experiments
A child takes on parental values
Introjection
This child star was first forced into rehab at age 13, and a mental institution for a year and a half after that. She was emancipated from her parents and declared an adult at age 14. She worked hard and stayed sober once she was away from her family.
Drew Barrymore.
Phrases you can say to yourself to help you get through distressing situations
Positive affirmations or positive self-talk