Cognitive Distortions
This type of extreme thinking occurs when you place things in either/or categories. Mainly, all good or all bad.
What is Black and White Thinking/Polarizing Thinking?
This therapy can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
What is Step 8?
This powerful synthetic opioid analgesic is 50-100 times stronger than heroin.
What is Fentanyl?
This singer, who suffered from polysubstance addiction, died as a result of alcohol toxicity.
Who is Amy Winehouse?
When you are convinced you know the outcome without having all of the evidence.
What is Jumping to Conclusions?
This therapy teaches 4 skills:
Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Emotion Regulation
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
What is Step 3?
This drug is a dissociative anesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects.
What is Ketamine?
This comedian died from a combination of heart disease and morphine/cocaine overdose.
Who is Chris Farley?
When you envision only the worst case scenarios.
What is Catastrophizing?
The goal of this therapy is to develop psychological flexibility and address these challenges instead of trying to suppress or eliminate undesirable experiences.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step 4?
The two drugs whose withdrawal symptoms are so severe, they can be deadly.
What are Benzodiazepines and Alcohol?
This celebrity death resulted from an accidental overdose of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine.
Who is Heath Ledger?
When you blame yourself for something completely or partially out of your control, this usually causes a sense of shame.
What is Personalization?
This uses creative expression to increase self awareness and communication.
What is Art Therapy?
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
What is Step 6?
Research in primate models has found that this drug alters brain structures involved in decision-making and impairs the ability to suppress habitual behaviors that have become useless or counterproductive. The two effects were correlated, suggesting that the structural change underlies the decline in mental flexibility.
What is methamphetamine?
This rapper died from a cocaine-induced heart attack.
Who is DMX?
When you believe the way you feel is reflective of reality.
What is Emotional Reasoning?
This is an evidence-based treatment that addresses ambivalence to change.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 10
Combining these two drugs creates a new psychoactive substance that is formed entirely within the body. It is the only drug combination that does this.
What is Cocaine and alcohol?
Bonus: What is Cocaethylene?
This bombshell had 9 different legal substances in her system when she died, including methadone, several benzodiazepines, and chloral hydrate.
Who is Anna Nicole Smith?