The Science of Addiction
Dopamine acts on this system in the brain
What is the reward system?
What are the 3 sets of skills for distress tolerance?
What are the promise skills, accepts skills, and accepting reality skills?
This skill involves getting fully involved in an activity when you are experiencing unwanted emotional distress
What is activities?
List 3 examples of relaxation skills
Counselor's choice
The skill of accepting something completely, regardless of whether we like it or agree with it
What is radical acceptance?
Define dopamine
What is released during pleasurable activities, reinforces behaviors and encourages us to seek them out again?
This is a saying related to distress tolerance. Pain is _______, misery is _______
What is pain is inevitable and misery is optional?
What does distracting with thoughts mean?
What is consciously changing your thoughts? Replacing obsessive, negative, or distressing ideas with thoughts about pleasant past events, goals for the future, and what's going well in the present.
Define Imagery
What is using an imagery exercise to distract from distress and feel more relaxed and visualization using the 5 senses?
These are the 3 accepting reality skills
What is/are radical acceptance, willingness vs willfulness, and turning the mind?
Bonus points
300 extra points!!!
Distress tolerance
Tolerating distress, using skills to successfully cope with stressful situations and unwanted emotions rather than doing something to make them worse
Define pushing away
What is either physically leaving a situation or blocking it from your mind? Taking a short break from an intense situation to more effectively address it.
Define One Step at a Time
Focusing on the present rather than attaching one's thoughts to the past or future. Slowing down and focusing on what's happening in the present
What does willingness refer to?
What is being open to accepting what is, whether we agree with it or not.
This neurotransmitter:
-regulates mood and emotions
-induces sleep and maintains healthy sleep patterns
-is involved with digestion
-controls appetite
-helps with learning and memory
-involved in blood pressure and heart rate
-regulates body temperature
What is serotonin?
Using distress tolerance helps us _____ the overwhelming ______ associated with _______.
What is, decrease, emotions, pain.
How do you practice the skill of opposite emotions?
What is replace the emotion that is reinforcing our distress with emotions that help us move to wise mind?
Allowing others to help us when we're distressed
What is seeking guidance?
What is willfulness?
This neurotransmitter:
-regulates brain activity and maintaining calm
-reduces anxiety, stress, excitement
-promotes sleep
-relaxes muscles
-decreases depression and anxiety
What is GABA?
Give an example of a time you used these skills to tolerate distress
Counselor's choice
Name the 7 ACCEPTS skills
What is activities, contributing, counting your blessings, opposite emotions, pushing away, distracting with thoughts, and sensations
These are the 7 PROMISE skills
What is/are prayer, relaxation, one step at a time, meaning, imagery, seeking guidance, and encouragement
_____ is the path to radical acceptance
Willingness