Coping Skills
Consists of reflective thinking or contemplation, usually on a specific subject to discern its meaning or significance or a plan of action. Some say listening is a simple form of this.
What is meditation?
This step requires that we can be restored to sanity.
What is step 2, Can believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity ?
Made direct amends to such people where possible except when to do so would injure others
What is step 9?
This actor/comedian who lived in the bay area struggled with addiction and substance abuse. He committed suicide in 2014. He once played a part in Disney's Alladin.
Who is Robin Williams?
Stimulants such as cocaine, speed, and methamphetamine when taken for long periods can induce a mental state of hallucinations and extreme paranoid delusions called:
What is psychosis?
Using another activity in order to replace or substitute the feelings/results you used to get from using substances
What is cross addiction?
"If I'm not perfect, I have failed," is what type of thinking.
What is All or Nothing Thinking or Black and white thinking
THE MORE YOU TAKE, THE MORE YOU LEAVE BEHIND. WHAT AM I?
What are footsteps?
This month raises awareness of addiction and recovery, and is also known as recovery month.
What is September?
Simple recovery strategy that consists of not looking too far in the future.
What or is A Day at a time? or What is just for today?
You should not do this if it will injure yourself or others?
What is make amends?
In this step you continue to practice these principles, volunteer to help others, do service work, become a Sponsor.
What is step 12, Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, other People in recovery and to practice these principles in our affairs. What is Service work
This author, who wrote books such as Carrie and The Green Mile struggled with alcohol and prescription drug addiction for years.
Who is Stephen King?
Belief that ones self has value and acceptance of personal flaws, weaknesses, and mistakes.
What is self worth or self esteem?
The act of avoiding and distancing yourself from the community.
What is isolation?
Failure to acknowledge an unacceptable truth or emotion or to admit it into consciousness, used as a defense mechanism.
What is denial?
WHAT HAS A HEAD, A TAIL, IS BROWN, AND HAS NO LEGS?
A PENNY
An established guideline for suitable behaviors, responsibilities, and actions. Addicts tend to break these and struggle to respect these lines drawn by others. These are usually key in healthy relationships.
What are boundaries?
This step requires a moral inventory
What is step 4?
This is an example of what Step?
What is step 8, Made a list of all Person we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all?
This TV series follows the Gallagher family's struggles through addiction and mental health issues.
What is Shameless?
The major organ that is directly effected the most by drug use
What is the brain?
Trying to protect an addict from facing the consequences of their drug related problems
What is enabling?
An addict seeks to control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously. Can be masked by charm.
What is manipulation?
CAN YOU NAME THREE CONSECUTIVE DAYS WITHOUT USING THE WORDS MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, OR SUNDAY?
What is YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW
Information or an emergency kit to help an individual from using again. This kit could include 12 step information, important phone numbers, healthy recreational activities to participate in.
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan or aftercare plan?
For step 5 you will need to admit your wrongs to a higher power, another person, and this person.
What is yourself?
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
What is step 11?
This rapper died in 2017 due to an accidental xanax overdose. He was only 21.
Who is Lil Peep?
The neurotransmitter most often associated with addiction
What is dopamine?
The H.O.W. of the 12 Step programs stands for this:
What is honesty, open-mindedness, and willingness?
Guilt is feeling bad about what you've done. _____ is feeling bad about who you are.
What is shame?
What appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
What is the letter M?
The acronym HALT in recovery stands for this list of warning signs to watch for to prevent relapse.
What is hungry, angry, lonely, tired?
Seeing things about myself I would like to change
What is Step 6, Were entirely ready to have "God, Higher Power" remove all these defects of character
We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
What is step 10?
This "Iron Man", who once snorted a line of ants, had 10 years of clean and sober time, before relapsing.
Who is Ozzie Osbourne?
This substance is possibly unsafe when used for a long time or in doses over 400 mg daily. It can cause insomnia, nervousness, restlessness, nausea, increased heart rate, and other side effects. Larger doses might cause headache, anxiety, and chest pain. It is unsafe when used in very high doses. It can cause irregular heartbeat and even death.
What is caffeine?
These are involuntary, repetitive, and irrational pessimistic thoughts that trigger anxiety, depression, and self-sabotage. It is the first thing that comes in your mind after a disappointment.
What are Automatic Negative Thoughts?
This type of thinking is sometimes referred to as "Making a mountain out of a mole hill."
What is magnification or catastrophizing?
A man was driving his truck. His lights weren’t on. The moon was not out. There were no streetlights. Up ahead, a woman was crossing the street. Luckily, the truck driver stopped in time—how did he see her?
it was daytime?