Spot the Sabotage
This self-sabotage pattern shows up when peace feels unsafe and someone creates chaos.
Comfort in Chaos
PAWS symptoms are best described as temporary or permanent?
Temporary
Recovery improves when you start now instead of waiting for what?
Motivation or perfection
One thing everyone in recovery already has is what kind of experience?
Survival experience
The most effective recovery actions are usually big or small?
Small
Ending relationships or opportunities first to avoid getting hurt is called what?
Illusion of Control
During PAWS, the brain is still doing what important process?
Healing / recalibrating
Waiting for perfect conditions before starting change is a form of what?
Self-sabotage
Skills learned in treatment still count even when you feel bad. True or False?
True
Waiting for motivation usually leads to what?
Inaction
The belief 'Why try? It never works anyway'; reflects which pattern?
Learned Helplessness
PAWS thoughts should be treated as signals, not what?
Commands
Honest awareness of your current emotional state reduces what emotion?
Shame
Focusing only on what you lack strengthens which emotion?
Shame
During PAWS, the goal is not to feel better but to do what?
Stay engaged
Feeling like a fraud despite evidence of progress is known as what?
Impostor Syndrome
What is the first step when PAWS symptoms appear?
Name it
Trauma brains struggle with starting because they fear what?
Failure or vulnerability
Supports disappear when people engage in which behavior?
Isolation
Using one skill consistently is better than trying to do what?
Everything
Ending opportunities early prevents rejection but reinforces what cycle?
Self-sabotage cycle
PAWS often lies about what key concept related to time?
Permanence
Starting small prevents overwhelming which system in the body?
The nervous system
The belief 'It doesn’t count unless I feel better'; reflects what thinking pattern?
All-or-nothing thinking
Progress comes from consistency, not what?
Intensity