Coping Skills
This is a personal healthy coping skill you use regularly.
Any healthy coping skill.
People, places, and things are commonly known as these types of triggers
What are external triggers?
The process of adapting well in the face of trauma, tragedy, or other significant sources of stress
Resilience
"One ________________ at a time"
What is Day?
Both trauma and substance use can put our brain nervous system into this response
Fight-Flight-Freeze
When you are struggling, it is okay to ask someone for ____.
Help or support.
Feelings that people have that trigger them to want to use drugs are known as this type of trigger
What are internal triggers?
An activity you do to maintain good health and improve well-being.
Self-Care
"Just for _______________"
What is Today?
This neurotransmitter plays a role in pleasure, motivation, and learning. In addiction, drug use causes a surge in this neurotransmitter
Dopamine
What are strategies for coping with triggers?
Identify, avoid, interrupt, talk about, and/or thought-stopping
These triggers are related to the senses of sight, sound, taste, and touch.
What are sensory triggers?
A person's most central ideas about themselves, others, and the world.
Core Beliefs
"__________________ not perfection."
What is progress?
This part of the brain controls the pleasurable effects of feeling "high" and is primarily responsible for forming habits around substance use.
What is the basal ganglia?
Meditation is this type of technique
What is relaxation/mindfulness?
The first step to dealing with triggers
What is identifying or recognizing them?
The first step to changing your thinking
Becoming aware, recognizing
"______________ is the opposite of addiction."
What is connection?
This part of the brain is responsible for executive functions that help us organize our thoughts, prioritize tasks, and make decisions. It also regulates our behavior emotions and impulses.
In addiction, substance use, takes control of this area of the brain.
What is the pre-frontal cortex?
This is a strategy you can use to help you pull away from flashbacks, unwanted memories, and negative or challenging emotions.
What is grounding?
This is what you do to triggers that cannot be avoided.
What is interrupt them?
Limits and rules that people set for themselves in relationships.
Boundaries
Recovery is a ____________, not a ________________
Journey
Destination
This part of the brain is associated with emotions, fears, and motivation. During addiction, it controls feelings of stress, unease, anxiety and irritability felt during withdrawal from substance use.
What is the (extended) amygdala?