Coping Skills
This coping skill involves writing & documenting daily triggers, concerns, and emotions; usually in a notebook.
What is journaling?
This person is seen as a mentor and confidant to hold an aloholic accountable while completing the 12 steps.
Who is a sponsor?
This co-occuring disorder typically has symptoms of:
racing thoughts, irritability, increased heart rate, and/or panic attacks.
What is anxiety?
This type of drug increases heart rate and energy levels, examples include: amphetamines, methamphetamines, caffeine, and nicotine.
What is a stimulant?
This is a plan that people in recovery can utilize at times of crisis in their recovery; the plan outlines triggers, coping strategies, and trusted support people to contact at times of crisis.
What is a relapse prevention plan?
This coping skill involves detaching from emotional pain, usually through distracting the mind. Examples could include the 54321 method, thinking of categories, or breathing exercises.
What is grounding?
This step involves encouraging other alcoholics to utilize the 12 steps, based off the understanding of one's own spiritual awakening.
What is the twelfth step?
This co-occurring disorder typically has symptoms of:
intense guilt/shame, low motivation, intense sadness, and/or loss of interest in hobbies.
What is depression?
This type of substance slows down the heart rate, mood, and energy levels. Examples include: alcohol, cannabis, and ketamine.
What are depressants?
These are often people, places, things, and emotions that might cause a person to want to use substances.
What is a trigger?
This coping skill includes a person "pausing", "fast forwarding", and/or "rewinding" a moment in time to better understand how a situation has historically or likely will play out; it is based off a VHS metaphor.
What is playing the tape out?
This step involves making a "searching and fearless inventory of ones self".
What is the fourth step?
This co-occurring disorder typically involves having intense, visceral flashbacks of a traumatic event, accompanied by hyper vigilance.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
This describes the acute withdrawal of substances, which may result in sweats, DT, hallucinations, nausea and diarrhea.
What is detox?
This is the process by which a person contributes to the self-destructive or compulsive behavior of another person
What is enabling?
This coping skill involves completely halting thoughts of substance use before they spiral into obsessions; usually paired with the metaphor of turning off a light switch.
What is thought stopping?
This step involves "making amends to those wronged whenever possible, except where it may injure them or others".
What is the ninth step?
This mental health condition can be categorized by a loss of reality, and may manifest as hallucinations or delusions. This can be substance induced or a naturally occurring phenomenon.
What is psychosis?
This syndrome explains prolonged symptoms of withdrawal, explaining why some people in recovery have cravings, difficulty sleeping, and thoughts of use up to 1-3 years after last ingestion.
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
These are our personal limits, such as how much we're willing to take from other people or situations.
What are boundaries?
This coping skill involves contacting a sponsor, therapist, or trusted family/friend at times of need or crisis.
What is contacting trusted supports?
These are the two founders of AA.
Who are Bill W. and Bob Smith?
This mental health condition involves an intense, distressing longing for something/someone that a person has lossed, causing distress for over a year. This is typically applied to a late loved one, but can also applied to any specific loss.
What is prolonged grief?
This is the biological phenomenon that causes a person in recovery to want to ingest a substance.
What is a craving?
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What is Volunteers of America?