Relapse Prevention
Going back to old habits, people, places, and things, and beginning to use again.
What is Relapse?
A person, place, or thing that makes a person want to use.
What is a trigger?
An unproductive way of thinking that makes you believe you will fail, that bad things will happen, and that recovery is not worth it.
Something that helps you feel better and combat, triggers, and stinking thinking.
What is a Coping Skill?
When a person decides they're life has become unmanageable due to substance use and they decide they want to make a change.
What is acceptance of addiction/substance use disorder?
Bars, clubs, parties, anywhere a person may be more likely to use.
What is a high risk situations?
Not being sincere and just telling the people around you what they want to hear without you actually believing the words you are saying.
What is Lip Service?
A group of people who keep you accountable and also help you maintain recovery.
What is a support system?
Psychological, Biological, Social, and Spiritual well-being
What are the four components of relapse prevention?
Name a person trigger.
What is (personal trigger)?
Believing that you are better than other people, you are different and treatment is useless, and that the law and rules do not apply to you.
What is Grandiosity?
What is (personal coping skill)?
It begins with emotional relapse, then mental relapse, and finally physical relapse.
What is the process of relapse?
A person exploring and understanding triggers that are personal to them and creating personal coping skills to help combat their triggers
What is self-awareness?
Not doing what is asked of you, dodging UAs and blows, finding ways to get around certain rules, and not attending treatment consistently.
What is corner-cutting?
What is commitment to recovery?
What is Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome?
Our brains store the surrounding sensory stimuli to memory. Then when we encounter theses sensory triggers the brain reactivates the feelings associated with using.
Noticing when you are experiencing stinking thinking and going against those thoughts and using coping skills so that you do not stay in those unproductive thoughts for too long.
What is challenging your own negative thoughts?
A card with a list of people that you can call when you are faced with a strong trigger or craving.
What is a fail-safe card?