Class Readings
According to Gabor Mate, a desperate attempt to solve the problem of human pain.
What is addiction?
Rats preferred the plain water showing social interactions play a major role in addiction as indicated by this experiment.
What is Bruce Alexander's Rat Park?
This is naturally produced by the body and is both a hormone and a neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
People in this stage work to prevent relapse to earlier stages.
What is maintenance?
An inability to feel entitled to hold onto nourishment because of guilt, shame, or anxiety.
During this stage, individuals may feel worse temporarily. They confront the damage caused by addiction and work to overcome the guilt and negative self-labeling that evolved during addiction.
What is the repair stage?
A problem with recognizing or describing one’s emotions.
What is Alexithymia?
Manifests as heightened reactivity, anxiety, emotional outbursts, and rage. (Prone to acting out with reckless, impulsive, or excessive risk-taking behaviors).
Intending to start the healthy behavior in the foreseeable future. Even with this recognition, people may still feel ambivalent toward changing their behavior.
"If I eat this plate of french fries, I will become a fat person" or "If I lose 10 more pounds, I will feel happy"
What is the cognitive distortion of Superstitious Thinking?
According to Dr. Gabor Mate, poor self-regulation, lack of basic differentiation, lack of a healthy sense of self, a sense of deficient emptiness, and impaired impulse control.
What are 5 traits that underlie the addiction process?
A rage that can't be expressed and a feeling of mental disintegration.
What is a main characteristic seen in self-mutilators?
Trauma can leave a chemical mark on a person's genes.
What is epigenetic trauma?
Have no desire to return to their unhealthy behaviors and are sure they will not relapse. Since this is rarely reached, and people tend to stay in the maintenance stage.
What is termination?
“I should be thinner”, “I’ll always be fat”, or “I’ll never be thin enough”
What is the cognitive distortion of Imperative Thinking?
Individuals with an unusually high propensities for excitation and/or low propensities for inhibition are more likely to engage in problematic sexual behavior. Whereas, individuals with a low inclination for sexual excitation and/or high inclination for sexual inhibition are more likely to experience problems with sexual response.
What is the Dual Control Model and Affect Regulation?
6% of US children
How many children have tried inhalants by the time they reach 4th grade?
A need for escape increases and signs include cravings, thinking about places and people associated with past use, minimizing consequences, bargaining and schemes to better control using.
What is mental relapse?
Ready to take action. Take small steps toward the behavior change, and they believe changing their behavior can lead to a healthier life.
“I am fat” and "food is my enemy"
What is the cognitive distortion of Dichotomous Thinking?
Spiritus contra spiritum
6 hours and 58 minutes per day
What is the average amount of time spent per day on screens connected to the internet?
Post acute withdrawal symptoms (PAWS)
What is the term for long term withdrawal effects that may last for several months and, rarely may last for a few years?
Intend to take action in the foreseeable future. People are often unaware that their behavior is problematic or produces negative consequences.
What is Pre-Contemplation?
"I am so bloated after eating 1500 calories today, this is proof that I can never eat more than 1000 calories day or I will have a big stomach"
What is the cognitive distortion of Selective Abstraction?