Relapse Prevention Skillz
The best tool for managing time when you are first starting out in recovery
What is a Schedule?
The people, places, things, and events that cause thoughts and cravings about drug use
What are External Triggers?
The process of falling back or returning to a previous state of behavior.
What is Relapse?
Groups designed to help people with the desire to stop using drugs and alcohol reach their goals
What are Twelve Step Meetings?
or AA Meetings...
or NA Meetings...
A desire, or dream you try to achieve in a certain amount of time
What are goals?
These are the methods used to change the drug-using thoughts we are experiencing to something else
What are Thought-Stopping Techniques?
Objects that stimulate the senses of a person that they quickly associate with drug use
What are Sensory Triggers?
The overindulgence in or dependence upon a substance, especially alcohol and other drugs.
What is Addiction?
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What is Substance Abuse?
The step that asks you to look upon your past behaviors that need changing to continue in your recovery
What is Step Four?
The process on how our brains learn and continue behaviors
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What is Repetition and Reward?
The use of your imagination to create detailed mental images to help you emotionally or to help make decisions
What are Visualization Techniques?
The simplest way to deal with your triggers in recovery
What is Avoidance?
The physical and mental symptoms that occur after stopping or reducing your intake of a drug.
What is Withdrawal?
The concept of making restitution to others that you have wronged in the past
What is Making Amends?
The state of being aware of what is happening in the present moment
What is Mindfulness?
The different types of tools that a person uses in order to help them deal with their triggers and cravings.
What are Coping Skills?
The four feelings that you need to keep monitoring that relate to the state of your physical and psychological well-being
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What is H.A.L.T.?
(Hungry, Angry, Lonely, and Tired)
The brain's chemicals that send messages throughout the body and determine your emotions
What are Neurotransmitters?
This step involves you focusing on your behavior in the current day to help recognize areas of improvement
What is Step Ten?
The act of looking out for yourself and keeping up on your hygiene and emotions
What is Self-Care?
Gives you benefits such as increased physical and emotional well-being, improving your sleep, giving you more energy, reducing stress and anxiety, and produces more neurotransmitters
What is Exercise?
Depression, Anxiety, and Loneliness are examples of this type of trigger
What are Internal Triggers?
The addicted mind's process of making excuses and lies to make it okay to use substances again
What is Relapse Justification?
The attitude that you have no special importance that makes you better than others
What is Humility?
The three classes used to define the psychoactive substances that are commonly abused
What are Stimulants, Psychedelics/Hallucinogens, and Depressants?