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Cognitive Distortions
Famous Addicts
12 Steps
AA
Mental Health
100
You don’t see or remember your destructive behavior and its negative results, or you don’t admit to yourself how serious they are. You think you may have missed work three or four times in the last two months when it’s really 12 times. You blame arguments with your spouse or partner on him/her and don’t take your share of the responsibility. You don’t admit that medical, financial, or relationship problems may be linked to your drinking, drug use, gambling, or other compulsive behavior.
What is Denial/minimization?
100
This "The Dark Knight" star died in 2008 of a toxic combination of six prescription drugs.
Who is Heath Ledger?
100
In this step, we came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
What is Step 2?
100
These were the two founders of AA. (First, middle, and last names)
Who are William Griffith Wilson and Robert Holbrook Smith?
100
The victims of this diagnosis re-experience the original event in form of dreams or flashbacks (common among veterans of military combat)
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
200
You guide your actions by what you think you should or shouldn’t do, and beat yourself up with guilt and shame when you fail to meet those standards. You may do this to other people, getting angry and judgmental when they don’t do what you think they should, even if you never told them what your expectations were.
What is “Should” statements?
200
This “Full House” actress suffered with anorexia and a related cocaine addiction that led her to rehab. She has since designed a $55,000 pill-covered handbag.
Who is Mary-Kate Olsen?
200
In this step we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
What is Step 4?
200
In this year the Big Book was first published.
What is 1939?
200
This is a disorder in which an individual alternates between feelings of mania and depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
300
If one thing goes wrong, you feel it’s a terrible day; if you make one mistake, you feel you are a mistake; you use the words “always” or “never” often.
What is Overgeneralization?
300
This Lost Boys child star found himself lost in drugs at a young age. His death in 2010 was attributed to a bad prescription medication concoction.
Who is Corey Haim?
300
In this step we admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
What is Step 5?
300
This person is a guide, a mentor, and a fellow recovering addict, who volunteers their time to help a newcomer in the 12-step program.
What is a Sponsor?
300
This is an intense and irrational fear of a particular object or situation
What is a phobia?
400
You assume that your emotions or suspicions reflect the way things really are: “If I feel it, it must be true.”
What is Emotional reasoning?
400
This Wizard of Oz star struggled with drug addiction for much of her life and died of a barbiturate overdose at age forty-seven.
Who is Judy Garland?
400
In this step, having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
What is step 12?
400
The twelfth tradition asks members to place this before personalities.
What are Principles (of A.A.)?
400
A person with this diagnosis may find themselves thinking the same thoughts over and over, or repeatedly performs irrational actions.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
500
You judge yourself and others instead of judging your actions or their actions. If you lose at something, you call yourself a loser. If others fail, you call them failures.
What is Judgment and labeling?
500
This promising actor, known in the ’80s for his role in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, shocked the world when his 1993 death exposed him as a heroin addict.
Who is River Phoenix?
500
In this step, we sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
What is Step 11?
500
The house where Bill Wilson was born has been converted into an AA meeting House/Bed and Breakfast and is located where.... (City, State)
What is Where is East Dorset, Vermont?
500
A person who is in good health who becomes preoccupied with imaginary ailments.
What is Hypochondriasis?