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They protect addicts from consequences, and often lie to protect the family’s reputation.
What are Enablers?
The four reactions of your brain's threat response system.
What are fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. (freeze activated, freeze unactivated, appease)
Sudden unwanted flashback images or memories.
What are symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
A natural hormone released by the brain that is also sold as an over the counter sleep aid.
What is melatonin?
Not expressing an emotion, then getting even later on.
What is being passive-aggressive?
They cannot tolerate being real or being ignored so they put on a show around others to distract everyone.
What are Spotlighters?
Study linking difficulties in a child's home environment to life long physical and emotional problems.
What is the Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey(ACES)?
Unintentionally disconnecting from a stressful internal experience or unwanted emotion.
Dissociation.
A class of drugs that impacts how the hormone serotonin is handled by the brain.
What is an SSRI? (Lexapro, Zolfot, Paxil, Celexa, Prozac)
The limits we place on ourselves' and our tolerance of others' behavior.
What are boundaries?
When others have problems, these people make their own problems bigger and louder.
What are Scapegoats?
This brain system makes us rest, digest food, and seek out partners.
What is the social engagement system?
State of mind when you Lack motivation, sleep too much, and are not feeling satisfied with much of anything.
What are symptoms of depression?
Two most common reasons mood stabilizers do not work.
What are non-compliance and substance use?
Repeating back what you understood.
What is reflection?
What they have to offer is not good enough, or what anyone else has to offer is not good enough.
What are Watchers?
Parts of the body's parasympathetic nervous system.
What are the amaygdala, the midbrain, the hippocampus, the occipital lobe, the pituitary gland, the adrenal glands, and the vagus nerve.
Racing heart, rapid shallow breathing, hot flashes, sweating.
What are symptoms of anxiety?
The classification for commonly abused anti-anxiety medications.
What are Benzodiazepines / anxiolytics (Klonopin, Valium, Xanax, Ativan)
Three Rs of anger management.
What are Retreat, Re-think, Respond?
They do whatever allows them to fly under the radar in the family, at work, at school, or in a relationship.
What are Chameleons?
A psychological space where one is not over-activated or under-activated.
What is the "window of tolerance"?
Anxiety, anger, depression, psychosis, grief/loss, post-traumatic stress.
What are common psychological symptoms of withdrawal?
Buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone/vivitrol.
Which drugs are used in medication-assisted treatment of substance use disorders?
In relationships, these are known as "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
What are Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling?