CBT
In the CBT model, this is responsible for creating our feelings.
What are, our thoughts?
When you’re doing something that is important for survival your brain releases a large amount of this chemical, so you feel good, and you crave more of that feeling motivating you to repeat the behavior.
What is dopamine?
The stage of relapse when you are not thinking about using but you are bottling up emotions, isolating, and abandon your recovery routines.
What is emotional relapse? Or the first stage of relapse?
A type of thinking that reduces stress by understanding how two things that seem like opposite could both be true at the same time.
What is dialectical thinking?
Who is the best Italian defensive backs to ever play football at St John Bosco High School?
Who is, Mike G?
A specific type of thought patterns that assign people, things, and actions into one of two categories – “good” or “bad”, "right" and "wrong"
What is, All or nothing thinking? or Black and white thinking?
This is the chemical that is released in the brain that locks in all the information in your environment when using drugs that will later become triggers that initiate involuntary cravings.
What is Glutamate?
When you are thinking about only the pleasure of using substances in such a powerful way that it causes a dopamine reaction in the brain without even using.
What is Euphoric recall?
When a person challenges themself to make any given situation unique in only subtle ways that only they would notice is one way of practicing this coping skill.
What is mindfulness?
While in Spain what amazing feat did Mike G conquer?
What is, Running with the Bulls?
thoughts that are instantaneous, habitual, and often times nonconscious that appear in our mind throughout the day.
What are Automatic Thoughts?
A powerful region of the brain that is responsible for our basic survival needs and can be hijacked by intense dopamine surges.
What is the mid Brain?
The stage of relapse when you are thinking about using, planning how to get drugs and use them without getting caught, minimizing past consequences, convincing yourself it will be different this time.
What is Mental Relapse? Or the 2nd stage of relapse.
This refers to a balanced way of thinking when a person considers information from both the reasonable and emotional halves of our mind.
What is Wise Mind?
A clinician who works at the Arrow house that is physically stronger that everyone here.
Who is Mike G.
An exaggerated or irrational thought pattern involved in the onset or perpetuation of negative emotions is called?
What is a Cognitive Distortion?
What is the signature symptom of addiction that is present even when the addicted person is not using, especially when under stress?
What are Cravings?
What is the overall most important element of preventing relapse?
What is self-care?
These are the coping skills in the acronym TIPP from the DBT coping skills.
TIPP: Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and progressive muscle relaxation.
This is the name of a heroic dog that once saved Mike G's kid from being attacked by a giant rat.
What is king?
deeply held beliefs that inform how people see themselves and the world. They have a large influence on people’s perceptions and decision making.
What are, core beliefs?
A condition of reduced activation or inadequate functioning of the prefrontal cortex that is the main symptom of addiction.
What is Hypofrontality?
strategies used to cope with stress, cravings, and negative emotions.
What are coping skills?
This practice is known to help keep the frontal lobe activated when under stress while also calming the body.
What is deep breathing? Box breathing? or Belling breathing?
Who is Mike G's favorite psychotherapist?
Who is Carl Jung?