Relapse Prevention
Feelings, individuals, or situations that cause your brain to crave substances; if you are unaware of them they could be a factor for relapse.
Triggers
What is a concern in the recovery community over 12-step programs?
That it is a religious program
A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique and has been proven to lower the risk for relapse.
Mindfulness/Mindfulness Meditation
An intense feeling of anger that leads to wanting to get revenge or retribution caused by a valid or perceived harm that was perpetrated on you
Resentment
The step that is an entity all of its own and if you don't understand it fully you will fail miserably
The First Step
This state of mind is harmful to recovery. its characterized by being too comfortable or unmotivated to "do the work"
Complacency
bonus: 100pts to anyone willing to share a time when they were complacent (does not have to be addiction specific)
What step relates to making amends to those wronged by our addiction?
bonus question anyone can answer: when do you avoid making direct amends?
Step 9
bonus answer: when it would cause harm to the person you are making the amend to. we call this "living amends" or living the changes as a sign of remorse in effort to do the "next right thing"
The practice of taking an active role in regularly doing things that improve your well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress
Self-care
A deeply distressing or harmful experience that can have a lasting negative impact on an individual's mental, emotional, and physical well-being
Trauma
Anger
The feeling of being trapped in a never ending stream of "unmanageable problems" and giving up/caving in to urges seem like the only option.
this term is a symptom of complacency
hint: if you are trapped and can't move you are ______.
Immobilized/ Immobilization
what is the only requirement to be a member of NA
a desire to stop using (tradition 3)
Doing or thinking about something different when you feel yourself being triggered to use substances is a...
Relapse prevention skill
What a person be "rid of" after completing the First Step
Reservations
The word that can be perceived to be the most important word in the Serenity Prayer
"Courage"
Convincing yourself that it is okay to engage in addictive behaviors or use substances is called ____?
Justification
12-step programs view addiction as a ______
Disease
Getting support from a neutral person who can help with mental health and addiction concerns is called...
Therapy or counseling
A feeling of agitation caused by the presence of, or imminence of danger
Fear
The "simple" definition of recovery
"Change"
How could over commitment or over confidence lead to relapse?
This can lead to feeling overloaded and under pressure.
Increased stress that promotes escapism
Encourages grandiosity and wishful thinking in high risk situations
Recovery is not a race- it can set unrealistic expectations for recovery.
When can you bring a friend or family member to a meeting?
If the meeting is listed as OPEN.
Closed meetings are for addicts only.
Bonus: what 12 step group could you suggest for your family? hint: started by Bill W's wife.
The basis of "Emotional Sobriety"?
Keeping feelings and emptions at a "5" or just remaining "Medium Cool"
Self-esteem is based in what you think, ____-____ is based on what you do
Self-respect
A person who spends most of their time trying to get feelings validated from the outside, has poor boundaries, and does not know how to say "no"
A "people pleaser"