The 12 Steps
In this step we learn that we are "not alone." The spiritual principle of this step is "honesty"
Step 1
Cravings, using dreams, difficulty concentrating, mood swings, irritability, anxiety, and difficulty sleeping are common and normal symptoms of this. . .
Post Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS)
You exaggerate the importance of things (such as your goof-up or someone else's achievement), or you inappropriately shrink things until they appear tiny (your own desirable qualities or the other fellow's imperfections). This is also called the "binocular trick."
Maximizing or Minimizing. Magnification.
I got sober from my pill use by exercising all the time, but I eventually took it too far. What common barrier to recovery is this refer as?
Cross Addiction
The patient activity sheet, GAD7, PHQ9, CSS, DSQ, and WAISF are examples of FIT assessments. Which 2 are currently being focused on and should be completed every week?
The Patient Activity Sheet and the Desire for Substance Use Questionnaire (DSQ).
When I share my story with other people in recovery, offer someone struggling resources or a ride to a meeting, or help to set up a meeting; I am practicing what step?
Step 12
Addiction is commonly described as a primary, chronic, ______, and potentially fatal disease.
Progressive
you see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat.
Overgeneralization.
These are people, places, emotions, and things that are associated with use.
Triggers, high risk situations, etc.
Where on My Recovery Compass can I find workshops, videos, and articles about recovery?
In our video "intro to the 12 steps" this step was described as "an admission of possibility."
Step 2
The neurotransmitter most related to the reward zone pathway in my brain is _____. (Hint this takes time to regulate itself after becoming sober)
Dopamine
You make a negative interpretation even though there are no definite facts that convincingly support your conclusion. Mindreading and fortune telling are other examples of this distortion.
Jumping to conclusions
This is a process that is characterized by a series of dysfunction over the course of days, weeks or even years, that eventually leads to the point of using makes sense.
Relapse
In group we refer to recovery actions as a way to build our _____ ______ in order to stay far away from the progressiveness of our addiction
Spiritual Buffer
When I identify my wrong and commit to another person spiritual changes that they will see me make, while allowing them a chance to share about how my behavior had effected them.
Step 9
When our reward pathway adjusts the hedonic setpoint to reflect the elevated dopamine levels of our substance use and now normal pleasures are no longer pleasurable it is called...
Anhedonia (important, this setpoint comes back to normal overtime if we remain sober)
You see things in black-and white categories. If your performance falls short of perfect, you see yourself as a total failure.
All of nothing thinking
Naltrexone, Vivitrol, Campral, and Suboxone are examples of this type of medication?
Anticraving
How can a new person search out 12 step meetings, SMART recovery meetings, Celebrate Recovery meetings, etc.
lots of answers here, AA intergroup, google search, sober apps, etc.
The passage: "upon awakening..." found on page 86-88 are the big books description of what step?
Step 11
There are _____ criteria used in order to diagnose a substance use disorder (via the DSM5).
11
The letter in the ABC(DE) model for challenging irrational beliefs or cognitive distortions that represents the "disruption of the belief" is what letter?
D. you disrupt the B, not the A.
What are 5 coping skills that you can use in order to prevent relapse? (30 seconds to answer)
there are lots of them! :)
In the patient portal MyRecoveryCompass there is a section called "MORE." What does MORE stand for?
My Ongoing Recovery Experience