Coping Skills
Living in the present moment. Essentially, it means being (intentionally) more aware and awake to each moment and being fully engaged in what is happening in one's surroundings – with acceptance and without judgment.
What is mindfulness?
This is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focuses the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
This is something that affects your emotional state, often significantly, by causing extreme overwhelm or distress.
What are triggers?
The actor says he used drugs before he was a teenager and spent most of his early career under their influence. He had several high-profile arrests in the late 1990s and early 2000s while misusing alcohol, cocaine, and heroin and spent time in a California prison and a state-run rehab facility.
Who is Robert Downey Jr?
Alcohol Awareness
What is April?
Find five things you can see, four things you can touch, three things you can hear, two things you can smell, and one thing you can taste.
What is the 5 4 3 2 1 coping technique?
These techniques involve the systematic practice of creating a detailed mental image of an attractive and peaceful setting or environment.
What is guided imagery or visualization techniques?
This term means to fall or slip back into a former state; to fall back into illness after convalescence or apparent recovery.
What is a relapse?
She was a 17-year-old actress on family-friendly TV when, she says, she first used cocaine. As her singing career took off, so did her problems with drugs and alcohol. In 2010, she first sought treatment for addiction, along with mental health issues including bipolar and eating disorders.
Who is Demi Lovato?
Mental Health Month
What is May?
This technique will bring you into the here-and-now by directing your focus to sensations in the body. Pay special attention to the physical sensations created by each step.
What is body awareness technique?
This an age-old practice that involves connecting your body, mind and spirit to the planet.
What is earthing/grounding?
This is a cognitive– behavioral approach with the goal of identifying and addressing high-risk situations for assisting individuals in maintaining desired behavioral changes.
What is relapse prevention?
She made headlines in 1989 by going to rehab at just 13 and announcing she was an addict. She says she started drinking when she was 9, and quickly moved on to marijuana and cocaine. She spent her teenage years trying to overcome her notoriety and has since enjoyed success as an actress and producer.
Who is Drew Barrymore?
International Overdose Awareness Day
When is August 31?
This technique aims to teach the individual what it feels like to relax the muscles by contrasting tensing the muscle groups in turn, followed by relaxing them. In this way, athletes learn to be aware of how the muscles feel when they are tense, and then what they can do to relax them.
What is Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR)?
This technique involves relaxing your face (from your forehead down to your jaw and chin) and turning your lips upwards?
What is the half smile technique?
This involves cognitive and behavioral efforts oriented toward denying, minimizing, or otherwise avoiding dealing directly with stressful demands.
What is avoidance coping?
The actress and children’s book author calls recovery from alcohol and drug addiction the greatest single accomplishment of her life. She says she became addicted to prescription painkillers she was given after a cosmetic procedure.
Who is Jamie Lee Curtis?
National Depression and Health Screening
What is October?
This technique is accomplished by an individual wrap their arms around themselves, so that each hand touches the opposite upper arm or shoulder. They then move their hands like the wings of a butterfly, to tap their arms/shoulders in an alternating rhythm.
What is The Butterfly Hug ?
This technique/concept is designed to help keep pain from turning into suffering. It signals a chance for hope because you are accepting things as they are and not fighting against reality.
What is radical acceptance?
What neurotransmitter is primary affected by substance use?
What is dopamine?
The guitar legend survived a rock culture of drug experimentation. He says he became addicted to heroin in the early 1970s. He finally found success in rehab in 1987. In 1998, he built the Crossroads Centre for alcohol and drug treatment on the Caribbean island of Antigua.
Who is Eric Clapton?
National Anxiety Month
What is May?