Guilt and Fear
True or False: Feeling guilty can be normal and healthy.
What is true?
You are in addiction treatment because you were _____________ over substances.
What is powerless?
Feelings such as sadness but more intense and usually last longer. This usually occurs in response to a traumatic or emotionally difficult situation or because certain brain chemicals are out of balance.
What is depression?
_____________ and _____________ can cause periods of depression
What is alcohol and drugs?
One Day At A ____
What does this mean to you (minimum of 2 people answer)
What is Time?
Who is affected by the pain of addiction?
What is the addicted people and the people around them?
This is often related to children who learn to ignore and push aside their fears often continue to do so as adults without realizing it.
What is adult fear?
Being depressed during alcohol or other drug withdrawal is ____________ and ____________.
What is natural and expected?
_________ can make users depressed while taking them.
What is depressants or Downer
Live And ___ ____
What does this mean to you (minimum of 2 people answer)
What is Let Live?
True or False: Recovery involves learning to face reality without becoming consumed with guilt and without using any mood-altering drugs.
What is true?
This is related to people who were raised in emotionally unhealthy families and had early experiences of fear.
What is childhood fears?
Symptoms are severe enough to negatively impact their daily life, and it may keep them from fully participating in work, family, or social activities.
What is major depressive disorder?
People who begin using drugs or drinking alcohol due to depression are _______-_________.
What is self-medicating?
To Keep It You Have To ____ __ ____
What does this mean to you (minimum of 2 people answer)
What is Give It Away?
Drinking alcohol and using other drugs often cover up _________.
What is feelings
How do people in early recovery gain control of their of lives?
What is opening up and sharing feelings, fears, and thoughts?
feeling after a traumatic or emotionally difficult situation, such as losing a family member or a job. Feeling temporarily weighed down. Usually lasts for a few days or more. it doesn't usually dramatically affect people's ability to function at home or work.
What is sadness?
Negative emotions are a ___________ part of life.
What is natural?
Cultivate An Attitude __ _________
What does this mean to you (minimum of 2 people answer)
What is Of Gratitude?
When people stop feeling guilt and other feelings, they become __________ __________.
What is emotionally numb?
Your emotional health now requires you to recognize how you have hurt yourself and others, but also to move beyond this hurt. What does this involve?
Forgiveness
Symptoms of depression (each group member must name 1)
What is very unhappy, have a lack of energy most of the time, not enjoy the things they used to enjoy, perhaps have insomnia or sleep too much, and have an inability to concentrate and think straight?
Most people will experience some symptoms of depression during drug _____________.
What is withdrawal?
Progress ___ __________
What does this mean to you (minimum of 2 people answer)
What is Not Perfection?