Withdrawal
A set of impairments that occur immediately after withdrawal from alcohol or other substances?
What is Post Acute Withdrawal (PAW's)
aggravates the brain dysfunction and makes the symptoms worse.
What is Stress.
May become angry over a small matter, feel more anxious, or are more excited than you have reason to be.
What is emotional over-reaction or numbness
What are you going to do right now about what is going on? You can choose to take action that can change things.
What is Problem Solving and Goal Setting
1. Learning about addictive disease, recovery, and post acute withdrawal symptoms helps to relieve the anxiety, guilt, and confusion that tend to create the stress that intensify PAW symptoms.
2. You also need to learn management skills so that you will know what to do to interrupt and control the stress and the symptoms when they occur.
What is Education and Retraining
These signs often occur as the body attempts to repair the brain and other organs.
What is PAW's
You may hear something and understand it, but within 20 minutes you forget it. This is one of the common signs of PAW's.
What is short-term memory issues.
If you become too overwhelmed, you may shut down your emotions so that you are numb and not able to feel anything.
What is emotional numbness
Think back over what has been happening. Can you identify how the episode started? What could have turned it off sooner? Think of other times that you were experiencing symptoms of PAW. What turned it on? What turned it off? Were there other options that might have worked better or sooner?
What is Backtracking
This is behavior that will enable you to be firm in accepting your own needs and not allowing other people or situations to push you into reactions that are not in the best interest of your sobriety.
What is Self-Protective Behavior.
Post-acute withdrawal is a group of symptoms of addictive disease that occur .
What is as a result of abstinence from addictive chemicals.
You may have changes in your , such as for long periods of time, going for days without feeling a need for , or at different times of the day.
What is Sleep Patterns, sleeping, sleep, sleeping
The same thoughts may go around and around in your head and you are unable to break through this circular thinking in order to put thoughts together in an orderly way.
What is Repetitive Thinking.
A stabilization technique that will help you look at your situation more realistically. It will help you bring internal symptoms to your conscious awareness. And it will give you support when you need others to rely upon.
What is verbalization.
The way you has a lot to do with the level of stress you experience and your ability to manage the symptoms of post-acute withdrawal.
What is Eat
Post-acute withdrawal is a bio-psycho-social syndrome. It results from the combination of (1) and (2) .
What is (1) damage to the nervous system caused by alcohol or drugs and (2) the psychosocial stress of coping with life without drugs or alcohol.
The most common symptoms of Post Acute Withdrawal when overcoming addiction are:
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
What is:
1. Unclear thinking/concentration.
2. Difficult emotions/mood swings.
3. Difficult physical coordination.
4. Sleep disturbances.
5. Sensitive to Stress
6. Short-term Memory Concerns
1. Dizziness
2. trouble with balance
3. slow reflexes can cause you to be clumsy and accident prone.
What is Coordination problems
Express as much as you can about what you are thinking and feeling even if it seems irrational and unfounded.
What is ventilation.
produces chemicals in your brain that make you feel good. These chemicals are nature’s own tranquilizers to relieve pain, anxiety, and tension.
What is Exercise
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Allstate
Avoid eating candy, donuts, soft drinks, potato chips, or other high calorie, low nutrient foods. You should specifically avoid foods that produce stress such as concentrated sweets and caffeine as they produce the >
What is same kind of chemical reaction in your body as being frightened or overly excited.
(Concentrated sweets such as candy, jelly, syrup, and sugar-sweetened soft drinks will give you a quick “pick-up,” but you will experience a let-down about an hour later accompanied by nervousness and irritability).
One of the most common symptoms is the inability to for more than a few minutes.
Concentrate
Ask someone if you are making sense. Not just what you are saying but your behavior. Your perception of what is going on may be very different from reality.
What is reality Testing.
Laughing, playing, listening to music, story telling, fantasizing, reading, and massage are some methods of .
What is natural stress reduction.