Emotions
Life Skills
Diagnoses
Substance Use Recovery
Theories of Substance Use & Mental Health
100

This feeling often gets in the way when people know what they should do but avoid doing it anyway.

What is fear? Or what is anxiety or avoidance?

100

What is the name of the primary care provider here?

Key Wellness

100

This mental health condition often causes excessive worry, overthinking, nervousness, and difficulty relaxing.

What is generalized anxiety disorder

100

This feeling is a strong urge or desire to use alcohol or drugs.

What is a craving or urge

100

This concept happens when someone automatically assumes the worst-case scenario will happen.

What is catastrophizing?

BONUS: CBT

200

People often keep saying yes to others because they are afraid of this.

What is rejection
200

This Maryland program provides health insurance coverage for many low-income adults, children, and families.

What is Maryland Medicaid

200

This condition can cause low motivation, sadness, isolation, fatigue, and loss of interest in things you once enjoyed.

What is depression

200

This is the process of returning to alcohol or drug use after a period of sobriety.

What is relapse

200

This skill involves stopping, slowing down, and thinking before reacting.

What is STOP Skill

BONUS: DBT

300

This common mental health struggle can make someone avoid social situations even when they want connection.

What is anxiety, or what is social anxiety

300

This document is often needed when applying for housing, benefits, employment, or identification.

What is a birth certificate
300

This trauma-related condition may involve nightmares, flashbacks, hypervigilance, and feeling constantly on guard.

What is Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

300

This recovery principle means taking responsibility for your actions instead of blaming others.

What is accountability

300

In this modality, this part often criticizes, judges, or puts people down to prevent mistakes.

What is the inner critic

BONUS: IFS

400

This common mental health struggle can make someone avoid social situations even when they want a connection.

What is familiarity
400

This phone number can be called or texted nationwide for immediate mental health crisis support.

What is 988
400

This symptom involves hearing, seeing, or experiencing something that others do not perceive.

What is a hallucination

400

This recovery tool involves calling, texting, or talking with someone who supports your sobriety.

What is a support system

400

This skill helps people stay focused on the present moment rather than getting stuck in the past or the future.

What is mindfulness

BONUS: DBT

500

This often keeps people stuck even when they genuinely want their lives to improve.

What is fear of change

500

This is often considered one of the most important skills for keeping a job long-term.

What is showing up consistently
500

This symptom occurs when a person strongly believes something despite evidence that it is not true.

What is a delusion

500

This is often described as the ability to sit with uncomfortable feelings without immediately trying to escape them.

What is coping
500

This concept occurs when people see things in extremes, such as "all good" or "all bad," with no middle ground.

What is black and white thinking

BONUS: CBT