Recovery
Centered around principles like honesty, surrender, and making amends, this recovery approach uses peer support and structured steps toward sobriety.
What is 12-stp program?
This term refers to the unpleasant physical and psychological symptoms that occur when a person stops using a substance.
What is withdrawal?
The gap or "space" between two neurons
What is a synapse?
An overall feeling of contentment with one's life
What is Happiness
a grounding exercise involving identifying 5 things you can see, 4 things you can touch, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell, and 1 thing you can taste.
What is the 54321 grounding technique?
This term describes the lingering symptoms -- like mood swings, sleep problems, and low motivation -- that can persist for months after detox.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS)?
This neurotransmitter is often called the "reward chemical" and is heavily involved in addiction.
What is dopamine?
These chemical messengers transmit signals between neurons across a synapse.
What is a neurotransmitter?
feeling tense, nervous, or unable to relax. Having a sense of dread, or fearing the worst. feeling like you can't stop worrying, or that bad things will happen if you stop worrying
What is Anxiety?
The act of deliberately reframing the thoughts in our heads to be kinder, gentler, forgiving, or optimistic.
Positive-Self Talk
Developed by psychologist Marsha Linehan, this therapy balances acceptance and change strategies to help people manage intense emotions and reduce self-destructive behaviors.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
This term describes the brain's process of needing more of a substance to feel the same effect.
What is tolerance?
These chemical messengers are released into the bloodstream to help regulate and influence growth, mood, and metabolism
What is a hormone?
Feelings of hopelessness, worthlessness, or helplessness. Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities.
What is Depression?
The deliberate act of using deep breathing and mindfulness to achieve states of tranquility or contemplation.
What is Meditation?
The psychologist Carl Jung, Dr Silkworth, and the Oxford groups were all vital in the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. They were all... ______
What is Non-alcoholics?
A transfer or substitution of one harmful addiction with another, whether it be substance or behavioral.
What is Cross-Addiction?
This area of the brain is linked to decision-making, planning, and impulse control.
What is the Prefrontal Cortex?
a feeling of worry or unhappiness that you have done something you believe is wrong.
What is Guilt?
The act of constructing or engaging in music, art, writing, poetry, singing, dancing, etc.
What is creativity?
This word doesn't just mean abstinence -- it also means emotional, mental, and spiritual wellness in daily living?
What is Sobriety?
This term describes the inability to feel pleasure, often seen during early recovery from addiction or in depression, leaving hobbies and pleasurable activities feeling gray, bland, or "blah".
What is Anhedonia?
The brain's ability to reorganize and form new connections is called
What is neuroplasticity?
A feeling that someone has not only done something bad, but is a bad person because of it.
What is shame?
The deliberate act of engaging in arduous, laborious, or physically demanding endeavors to elicit positive changes in body and mind.
What is Exercise / Fitness?