High Risk
Walking past your favorite bar.
What is an activating event?
Treatment ends.
When does the real work of recovery begin?
Addiction
What is the 5th stage of addiction?
I am a good person. I deserve good things.
What is a positive affirmation?
Bill W. and Dr. Bob
Who are the founders of AA?
I'd rather go to the gym, but thanks anyway.
What is a refusal technique?
Recovery means more than just putting down the drugs or alcohol.
What is working on character defects that kept you stuck in addiction?
Risky use.
What is the 3rd stage of addiction?
Never let past wrongs define your present.
What is forgiving yourself of past mistakes?
Go to meetings. Fellowship. Get a sponsor. Communication.
What are the steps to successful recovery?
No one will ever know if I...
What is irrational belief?
Loosing focus on life skills and relapse prevention techniques that strengthen your recovery.
What is the major obstacle that prevents recover from being first and foremost in your life?
Experimentation
What is the 1st stage of addiction?
Write a positive affirmation, forgive yourself of past mistakes, practice self-forgiveness, accept compliments, do one kind thing a day, and start making changes.
What are the steps in rebuilding self-esteem?
We made a fearless and searching moral inventory of ourselves.
What is the fourth step?
Holidays, family gatherings, emotions, celebrations, and disappointments.
What are types of high risk situations?
Time to wake up, eat, exercise, work, 12 step meetings, doctor appointments, family, hobbies and recreation.
What are parts of a healthy daily schedule?
Dependence
What is the 4th stage of addiction?
Accept responsibility, don't dwell in guilt, make amends, focus on what you've learned and how you've grown.
What are self-forgiveness steps?
These two substances affect the same neurorecptors (pleasure center) in the brain.
What are alcohol and opioids?
Doing the same things in the same pattern over and over again.
What could be the warning sign of the drug-habit chain?
In active addiction we were creatures of habit to get our drugs doing the same things, the same way, with the same people, in the same places. Be on the watch for this warning sign.
Friends, family members, members of 12 step fellowship.
Who are the people in your support network?
Regular use
What is the 2nd stage of addiction?
Improved mental and physical health and relationships.
What are some benefits of self-forgiveness?
You feel like you want to use. You are fighting with your spouse or boss. You don't feel like you want to use. Life is good. Life sucks.
When should you go to a meeting?