Basics
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
CBT focuses on the connection between these three things.
What are thoughts, feelings, and behaviors?
This deep breathing technique involves inhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds, and exhaling for 4 seconds.
What is box breathing?
The first step in recovery often begins with admitting this.
What is admitting powerlessness over addiction?
This type of communication expresses needs clearly and respectfully.
What is assertive communication?
The process by which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Cognitive Distortion: Believing something is all good or all bad with no middle ground.
What is black-and-white (all-or-nothing) thinking?
Writing down thoughts and feelings to process emotions is called this.
What is journaling?
HALT reminds people to check if they are:
Hungry, angry, lonely, tired.
These are known as the limits and rules you set for yourself to protect your mental, emotional, and physical well-being in your relationships
What are boundaries?
This artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Cognitive Distortion: Predicting the worst possible outcome without considering other possibilities.
What is catastrophizing?
This grounding technique uses the senses to identify 5 things you can see, 4 you can touch, 3 you can hear, 2 you can smell, and 1 you can taste.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 technique (or 5-senses ground technique)?
This type of relapse occurs when someone mentally starts justifying or fantasizing about using again.
What is mental or emotional relapse?
Listening to understand rather than to respond is called this.
What is active listening?
The largest desert on earth is located on this continent.
What is Antarctica?
This balanced state of mind integrates logic and emotion.
What is Wise Mind?
The process of identifying and challenging unhelpful thoughts is called this.
What is cognitive restructuring?
PAWS stands for this.
Bonus: give a time frame for PAWS (+200 points)
What is Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
(several months to 2 years)
This term describes manipulation disguised as kindness or guilt.
What is emotional coercion, gaslighting, or guilt-tripping?
The world’s most expensive spice by weight.
What is saffron?
The word “dialectical” means balancing these two ideas.
What are acceptance and change?
During physical exercise, this chemical is released and helps to reduce stress.
What are endorphins?
This technique involves riding out cravings like waves until they pass.
What is urge surfing?
This hormone, often called the “bonding hormone,” increases feelings of closeness.
What is oxytocin?