Coping Skills
Triggers
Phase II Topics
Quotes
Addiction and the Brain
100

This is a personal healthy coping skill you use regularly

(response is personal any answer counts)

100

People, Places, and things are commonly known as these types of triggers

What are external triggers?

100

The process of adapting well in the face of trauma, tragedy, or other significant sources of stress

Resilience

100

"One ________________ at a time"

What is Day?

100

Both trauma and substance use can put our brain nervous system into this response

Fight-Flight-Freeze

200

When you are struggling you can ask a recovery support for this

help

support

200

Feelings that people have that trigger them to want to use drugs are known as this type of trigger

What are internal triggers?

200

an activity you do to maintain good health and improve well-being

Self-Care


200

"Just for _______________"

What is Today?

200

This neurotransmitter plays a role in pleasure, motivation, and learning. In addiction, drug use causes a surge in this neurotransmitter

Dopamine

300

Strategies for coping with triggers

identify, avoid, interrupt, talk about, and/or thought-stopping

300

These triggers are related to the senses of sight, sound, taste, and touch. 


What are sensory triggers?

300

A person's most central ideas about themselves, others, and the world 

Core Beliefs

300

"__________________ not perfection."

What is progress?


300

This part of the brain controls the pleasurable effects of feeling "high" and is primarily responsible for forming habits around substance use. 

What is the basal ganglia?

400

Meditation is this type of technique

What is relaxation?

400

The first step to dealing with triggers

what is identifying or recognizing them?

400

The first step to changing your thinking 

becoming aware

recognizing

400

"______________ is the opposite of addiction." 

What is connection?

400

This part of the brain is responsible for executive functions that help us organize our thoughts, prioritize tasks, and make decisions. It also regulates our behavior emotions and impulses. 

In addiction, substance use, takes control of this area of the brain. 

What is the pre-frontal cortex?

500

This is a strategy you can use to help you pull away from flashbacks, unwanted memories, and negative or challenging emotions. 

What is grounding?

500

This is what you do to triggers that cannot be avoided

what is interrupt them?

500

limits and rules that people set for themselves in relationships

Boundaries

500

Recovery is a ____________, not a ________________

Journey

Destination

500

This part of the brain is associated with emotions, fears, and motivation. During addiction, it controls feelings of stress, unease, anxiety and irritability felt during withdrawal from substance use. 

What is the (extended) amygdala?