Cognitive Distortions
Blow things way out of proportion or you shrink their importance inappropriately
Magnification or minimalization
Changing behavior
Action
T/F
As long as you do not use alcohol or drugs you are recovering
False
Abstinence is only a prerequisite to recovery. Recovery is switching from a life-style centered around using to a life-style centered around healthy living.
People who openly and truthfully state their wants, needs, feelings, and thoughts while respecting others
Assertive
When you change the way you look at things,...
The things you look at change
You look at things in absolute, black and white categories
All or nothing thinking
Getting ready to change
Preparation
T/F
Relapse occurs because addicts drop out of treatment or stop going to AA or NA meetings
False
Most people stop going to treatment or AA because they are already in the process of relapse. Discontinuing AA or treatment is often the result rather than the cause
Express their thoughts and feelings in ways that overwhelm and intimidate others
Aggressive
The opposite of addiction
Connection
You assume that your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are
Emotional reasoning
Not yet acknowledging that there is a problem behavior that needs to be changed
Pre-contemplation
T/F
People who relapse are not motivated to recover
False
Most relapse prone people are motivated to get well. Some experience such severe sobriety-based symptoms that they view alcohol or drug use as the only way out
People who hide or disguise their true thoughts or swallow their honest feelings instead of saying what they truly mean
Passive
The pleasure chemical that plays a major role in substance abuse and addiction
Dopamine
You identify with your shortcomings; An extreme form of all-or-nothing thinking
Labeling
Successfully avoiding former behaviors and keeping up new behaviors
Maintenance
T/F
Thinking about relapse will bring it about
NOT thinking about relapse will more likely bring it about. Those who acknowledge the possibility of relapse and think about how it is apt to occur can take action to prevent it
People who appear serene on the surface but feel the lava of resentment bubbling underneath
Passive-aggressive
The three parts of the disease of addiction
Body-physical allergy
Mind-mental obsession
Spirit-spiritual malady
Comes in forms of:
Mind reading-without checking it out, you arbitrarily conclude that someone is reacting negatively to you
Fortune telling-you predict things will turn our badly
Jumping to conclusions
Acknowledging that there is a problem but not yet ready, sure of wanting, or lacks confidence to make a change
Contemplation
T/F
Once you begin using it is possible for you to interrupt your relapse before you have "hit bottom" again
True
If you do begin to use addictively as a result of poor judgement or loss of control you will hit periodic moments of sanity. It is your responsibility to interrupt the relapse during these moments of sanity.
Clinical term for the flight/fight/freeze response
Hyperarousal
The 4 Agreements
Be impeccable with your word, Don't take anything personally, Don't make assumptions, Always do your best