Mindfulness
a practice of mindfulness characterized by silence, breathing, and the endeavor to find peace in the moment.
What is Meditation?
This is the serenity prayer.
A mood disorder characterized by feelings of physical discomfort, irritability, and deep concern regarding things to come in the future, or the present moment.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
A neurological event occurs when a person in recovery loses this desire that drove them to use drugs and alcohol in the past.
What is the "The Phenomena of Craving"?
a therapy style characterized by the patient talking about whatever comes to their mind, and being asked to reflect upon their thoughts and memories. Patient is encouraged to elaborate at length and come to their own conclusions.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
The step where we “Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.”
What is the 10th step?
a mood disorder characterized by a lack of motivation and will to move forward, synonymous with low self-esteem, energy, and a lingering focus on the troubling events of the past.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This federally regulated medication can help an opiate addicted individual start recovering from their addiction and structuring his or her life again.
What is Suboxone?
A style of therapy characterized by identifying unhelpful and destructive patterns of thought and behavior, leading to inappropriate and destructive actions.
What is CBT?
What is visualization?
What is "Going-out"?
a mental health disorder that impacts the way you think and feel about yourself and others, often characterized by a difficulty regulating emotions, inconsistent interests, and fear of abandonment.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
A fellowship for the family and friends of those addicted to drugs and alcohol, offering insight and help for those who we have affected in our addictions.
What is AL-Anon?
A therapy style characterized by a clinician auditing a patients thoughts and beliefs, and bringing into question the validity of their stances on a range of topics.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy? DBT
The physical audit of one's body, drawing attention to different muscle groups and bodily regions to identify and release tension
What is a body scan?
Bill W's sponsor and good friend, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous
Edwin "Ebby" Thacher.
mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. This may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking and behavior that impairs daily functioning, and can be disabling
What is Schizophrenia?
a non-religious group modality of recovery focused on the discussion of our cravings, daily struggles, and the power gained by a person in recovery.
What is SMART Recovery?
What is Humanistic Therapy?
What is enlightenment?
The idea that we as addicts are not fit to handle our addictions on our own, that we alone are ineffective in solving our problem.
What is powerlessness?
is a rare clinical condition in which patients who have had previous exposure to a hallucinogenic substance continue to experience perceptual distortions months to years after complete cessation of the initial substance use
What is Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) ?
A treatment facility that handles both mental health and substance use disorders would be characterized as this
What is a "Dual-Diagnosis" facility?
A therapy style characterized by the clinician bringing to a patients attention their physical reactions and subliminal responses to questions or suggestions.
What is Gestaltian?