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Types of Avoidance
Brain Chemicals
AA
Peers
100

This part of the brain is found in mammals and was the second part of the brain to evolve. It is largely responsible for emotions and emotional experiences

Limbic system

100

This type of avoidance is often found in individuals who experience acute PTSD and entails avoiding places or experiences that remind one of a traumatic event

Situational Avoidance

100

This chemical regulates mood stability and medications like Prozac and Zoloft help regulate the brains ability to receive it

Serotonin

100

"We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable."

Step 1

100

This group member has published a book and is a minister

Shawntel

200

"If I hadn't hoped something bad would happen to him, he wouldn't have gotten into an accident" is an example of which cognitive distortion

Magical thinking

200

This type of avoidance means actively turning your mind away from distressing thoughts or memories

Cognitive Avoidance

200

This chemical provides a sense of "reward," pleasure and gratification

Dopamine

200

 We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. 

Step 3

200

These 2 group members have two children each, one has a set of twin boys and one has a boy and girl each

Q and Justin

300

This diagnosis includes a variety of symptoms and degrees of symptoms, and entails a cycle of both mania and depression

Bipolar

300

This type of avoidance refers to actions in your physical environment that help you feel safer in your inner world, including repeatedly washing hands, locking doors etc and can be found to an extreme in diagnosis such as OCD

Protective Avoidance

300

Effexor regulates the brains intake of these 2 chemicals in order to improve mood, motivation, behavior and emotions

neureponephrine and serotonin

300

We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 

Step 5

300

These three members are first responders

Steven, Tamira and Kristina

400

Empathy is in this area of the brain and is not solely emotional

Bonus points for exact location it originates from

Neocortex

Bonus:

Supramarginal Gyrus

400

Somatic avoidance refers to steering clear from situations that elicit a physical response similar to anxiety or the stress response. Someone who has a negative experience in a relationship may avoid falling in love or even riding a roller coaster because of the physical association in a rapid heart beat

Somatic avoidance

400

Opiates and opioids are often used to replicate the effects of this naturally occurring chemical, which occurs with a sense of bondedness, connection and loved.

Oxytocin

400

We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character

Step 6

400

This group member cares alot about his family relationships with his mom, dad and brother and this group member is from Honduras

Chase and Jose

500

The mode of age for our current group is________ and the mode of zodiac sign for our current group is ______

29 and virgo

500

This type of avoidance entails replacing difficult thoughts, feelings or behaviors with another thought, feeling or behavior in order to feel better, without working through painful experiences

Substitution

500

The category of medications that improve serotonin productivity is called:

SSRI's or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

500

We continued to take personal inventory and, when we were wrong, promptly admitted it. 

Step 10

500

This group member was raised without celebrating holidays as part of his families religion

James