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Recovery Terms
12 Steps
Recovery Terms
Cognitive Distortions
100
What beverage brings all the brings all the boys the yard?
My milkshake
100
We are only as sick as our____________
This is a common A.A saying
Secrets.
100
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.
What is step 1
100
Helping an addicted person do something they can or should be doing for themselves, often causes disease progression.
Also could be inadvertently doing something that the addicted individual could not be accomplishing on their own.
Enabling
100
This cognitive distortion involves always thinking about things that you think you "should" or "must" do. These types of statements can make you feel worried or anxious
What is a should statements
200
If the cookie monster was assessed and treated he would be billed under which diagnosis.
A. Anorexia B Bulimia C Binge Eating disorder
D. Obsessive compulsive disorder
C Binge-eating disorder is characterized as a lack of self-control while eating more food, faster than normal, even when not feeling physically hungry, until uncomfortably satiated.
200
Things we can do in the moment that help us get through stressful/ difficult situations.
What are coping skills.
200
made a list of all the persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all
Step 8
200
These are traits that usually were developed early and served the addict as a means of survival.
examples are: manipulation, anger, perfectionism
Character Defects
200
Cognitive distortions that are labeled as mind reading or fortune telling. An example would be a boss not acknowledging you and thinking you are about to get fired.
What is " Jumping to Conclusions".
300
The Greek philosophy demonstrated by the endurance of pain or hardship without the display of feelings and without complaint.
A primary belief is virtue is sufficient for happiness
What is stoicism
300
Thoughts that are harmful to recovery and are usually things we tell ourselves to talk us into using them.
What are justification thoughts
300
Came to believe a power greater then ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Step 2
300
Symptom of an addict that is not yet willing to admit they have a problem in spite of negative consequences.
Denial
300
Viewing things in absolute terms. Believing that something is always right or wrong. Seeing individuals as all good or all bad. Identifying situations as success of failures with no inbetween.
What is polarized, all or nothing thinking. Also acceptable is black and white thinking.
400
A religious belief that the human life is one of suffering, and that meditation, spiritual and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment, or nirvana.
What is Buddhism.
400
An example of an emotional relapse is ____________
Focusing on others. Becoming dishonest. Bottling emotions. . Isolating. Poor eating and sleeping habits. Bad self care.
400
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Step 10
400
A recovering addict may experience, ________refers to a significant reduction in the person's ability to experience pleasure. Can last for 18 months.
Also could be expressed as BLAAAAA's
What is Anhedonia
400
Cognitive distortion that involves ignoring or invalidating good things that have happened to you
What is " discounting the positive".
500
List 9 of the ten commandments
- You shall have no other gods before Me.
- You shall make no idols.
- You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
- Keep the Sabbath day holy.
- Honor your father and your mother.
- You shall not murder.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- You shall not covet.
500
An internal barrier that are limits to what we will accept and what we won't accept. We put ______ in place to protect our recovery and mental stability.
What are boundaries.
500
The two steps in which most people relapse. The step that is laying the foundation on which the bridge to recovery will be built.
Acceptable is 4,5,8,9
500
The period of sobriety usually for the first three to six months. It can be listed as a time in which everything is great.
What is the Pink Cloud
500
Mistaking feelings for fact.
What is emotional reasoning.