Relapse Prevention
A technique that can be used to avoid acting on any behavior that you want to reduce or stop. It involves imagine that a feeling is like an ocean wave that arrives, crest ands subsides.
What is Urge Surfing?
Limits and rules we set for ourselves within relationships
What are boundaries?
A mental state in which one is fully aware of the present moment.
What is Mindfulness?
This increases as one continues to use, requiring one to need more of the substance to feel the same high.
What is tolerance?
Guilt is feeling bad about what you've done. ______ is feeling bad about who you are.
What is Shame?
Feelings, people, or situations that cause the brain to want to use substances. If you're not aware of them, they can cause you to relapse
What are Triggers?
Symptoms you experience several weeks or months after you have finished detoxing that are related to the body healing from substance use.
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)?
Practicing a conscious effort to acknowledge and honor difficult situations and emotions. Looking at current reality for what it is.
What is Radical Acceptance?
Someone who has quit drinking/ using but hasn't dealt with the issues that caused them to become addicted in the first place.
This is the process by which the addicted brain invents excuses that allow the person in recovery to edge close enough to relapse situations that accidents can happen.
What is Justification?
A powerful desire to use substances
What are cravings?
The opposite of addiction
What is connection?
The practice of taking an active role in regularly doing things that improve your well-being and happiness, in particular during periods of stress.
What is Self-Care?
A natural high, feelings of elation and euphoria in early sobriety.
What is the 'Pink Cloud'?
We must __ ourselves before we can receive it from others.
What is FORGIVE?
This state of mind can be fatal for recovery! It's characterized by being too comfortable or not feeling motivated to continue doing the work
What is Complacency?
Neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to engage in certain behaviors, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. A treatable, chronic medical disease involving complex interactions among brain circuits, genetics, the environment, and an individual’s life experiences.
What is Addiction?
The examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.
What is Introspection?
A common reaction of people with substance use disorders who, when confronted with the existence of those disorders, deny that they have a substance abuse problem and/or have lost control of it.
What is denial
the pleasure chemical in our brains that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
What is dopamine?
Identifying and writing down triggers, coping skills, people, and activities that can help prevent a relapse
What is a Relapse Prevention Plan?
The ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, especially in response to learning, or an experience or following injury.
What is Neuroplasticity?
Thoughts that cause individuals to perceive reality inaccurately.
What are Cognitive Distortions?
The last stage of behavior change in which an individual is able to manage their disease.
What is maintenance?
A state of mind where you are thankful and taking notice of the good things in your life, rather than focusing on the bad
What is gratitude?