wild card
What's the type of "check" on your credit that does not affect your credit score?
Soft Inquiry (or soft check)
________ is an irrational thought a lot of us have in believing that something is far worse than it actually is.
Catastrophizing
Here's some more information on catastrophizing:
Everyone has negative thoughts. But for many people, negative thinking can spin out of control and out of proportion to the reality of a situation. A relatively modest error, disappointment, or source of embarrassment (or even the possibility of one) can sometimes become, in one’s mind, a cause for major fear or despair—in short, a catastrophe.
One simple, often talked about practice has been shown to promote recovery and help prevent relapse.
Hint: it is often suggested to practice this in the morning.
Gratitude.
One study found that “gratitude stimulates positive emotions which, subsequently, promote recovery and protect against relapse”
What does the acronym HALT stand for?
Hungry Angry Lonely Tired
The AIDS crisis inspired this singer to address his addictions. This singer says when his friend, a young AIDS activist, died in 1990, he felt a lot of regret that he had spent the previous decade absorbed in alcohol and cocaine misuse. He sought treatment in 1990 and established his own AIDS Foundation 2 years later.
Sir Elton John
proactive approach to reducing the damage done by alcohol, drugs, and other addictive behaviors, as well as addressing broader health and social issues, such as HIV transmission.
Harm reduction
thinking that you know what someone is feeling or thinking about you describes what cognitive distortion?
Mind reading.
Mind reading is the pattern of assuming you know what another person is thinking about you. When we mind read, we make assumptions about others’ impressions of us that are often based on our own insecurities.
Mind reading can have a significant impact on a person’s quality of life. It affects the way we relate to others and the way we see ourselves. Mind reading negatively affects self-esteem, and prevents a person from seeing a situation from a clear and realistic perspective.
Approximately __% of all crime in the U.S. is related to drug or alcohol addiction:
I will accept within 10% of this answer.
80%
What are the three aspects of the CBT triangle?
(____ effects ____ effects _____)
Ask for a visual if you need it!
Thoughts, feelings (or emotions), behaviors.
Can be in any order!
This famous rap music artist began his recovery journey in 2007 after an overdose. In 2010, he released an album inspired by his sobriety, even titling this album after his Recovery journey.
This artist says: “I feel stronger than ever, better than ever, nothing is going to stop me. That is the undertone of the record. It’s also; I think by me putting out a record like this, it can show people that no matter how down you are, it does get better.”
Eminem
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), this particular practice was created based on the notion that reality must be accepted, rather than fought against, and that fighting and railing against a situation is a greater cause of suffering than the situation itself.
Radical Acceptance
Splitting your views into extremes, where everything—from your view of yourself to your life experiences—is divided into black-or-white terms describes what cognitive distortion?
All-or-nothing thinking.
Heroin use rose by ___% between 2007 and 2011.
I will accept within 10% of the answer.
75%
Understanding our unhelpful patterns is an important recovery skill.
With that in mind, these characteristics describe what?
+ afraid of being rejected or abandoned
+ preoccupied about what others think and feel
+ fearful of saying no, setting limits, or seeming “mean”
+ hungry for the approval of others
+ stuck in relationships where they give more than they get
+ overworked because of an overdeveloped sense of personal responsibility
+ neglectful of their own needs
+ exhausted, overbooked, and burned out trying to take care of others
People pleasing.
How parent relationships can influence people-pleasing tendencies:
If, as a child, your parent(s) only showed love when you were conforming to their needs, desires and expectations, you’ll eventually learn that you need to please them in order to be truly loved and accepted — and you’ll unconsciously apply that belief to every human interaction.
this actress is very well known for her role in horror and slasher genres, she is sometimes regarded as a "scream queen", but has also excelled in other roles, particularly comedy. She was born in 1958 and continues to act today.
She is also the proud owner of two decades of sobriety and is an outspoken advocate for recovery.
Jamie Lee Curtis.
Here's a quote from her:
“My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life because it broke the cycle of addiction in my family. Getting sober was the single bravest thing I’ve ever done and will ever do in my life. Not [running] a 5K—facing an addiction. Being courageous enough to acknowledge it privately with my family and friends. Working really hard at solidifying it, getting support around it and being healthy. And then talking about it publicly. That is the single greatest accomplishment of my life.”
The word refers to role reversals, where a child is placed in the role of needing to care for a parent.
Children with this experience may experience a range of difficulties in adulthood: difficulties with relationships, poor boundaries, anxiety.
Parentification.
In emotionally healthy families, parents recognise that their role involves caring for a child, meeting the child’s developmental needs, scaffolding a child to build new skills, and supporting individuation and separation from the family. Within families characterised by parentification, the emotional emphasis remains on the parents physical and psychological needs, which typically results in children operating at a level far beyond their developmental capacity. Parentified children are usually exposed to issues that they cannot fully comprehend.
Once identified it can be beneficial to fully explore how it may have effected self-esteem, setting boundaries, perfectionism, hyper-independence, etc.
A cognitive distortion where a person believes that they are responsible for an event that they have very little or no control of. The individual jumps to conclusions without assessing the situation and blames themselves for the event, which leads to feelings of guilt.
For example "my mom is always upset, she would be fine if I just did more to help her".
Personalization or personalizing.
studies show that when incarcerated individuals receive comprehensive drug or alcohol treatment in prison and then follow up with continued care upon their release, their drug use declines by __ %.
It's two numbers, __ to__ % but I'll accept any number within this range.
50-70%
Resentment, anger, and fear make up the triangle of self-obsession, what is said to be the three remedies to these character defects.
Acceptance, love, and faith.
This American producer and highly prolific actor, 1948, Washington, D.C., U.S. having appeared in over 100 films. His current net worth is about $250 million and he is one of the highest grossing actors of all time, though he was addicted to crack-cocaine in the early years of his acting.
This actor has been sober for close to 25 years and still acts today.
Samuel L Jackson
Quotes from him:
“I had basically moved into the basement of our brownstone,” he said. “I was like the troll in the basement, and every now and then I’d come upstairs and hover around to do something. I was addicted and being crazy.”
“I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.”
There are a few established dysfunctional family roles, this one uses humor and goofiness to distract from serious issues.
The Mascot.
They may feel immense pressure to step in when situations become tense and volatile. When they diffuse the situation successfully, this reinforces the pressure on them to continue to distract the family from their issues.
Interrupts volatile situations with humor
Acts from a place of anxiety and trauma
May experience bouts of depression
Engaging in this cognitive distortion involves interpreting feelings as proof instead of basing your conclusions on facts.
This distortion many times leads a person to blatantly ignore any factual evidence, or at the very least forget to look for any factual evidence.
Emotional reasoning
Only ___% of Americans dealing with addiction receive treatment.
I will accept any number within 5% of the answer.
10%
A person in this state is totally immersed in a task. When a person is in ____ they may not notice time passing, think about why they are doing the task, or judge their efforts. Instead, they remain completely focused.
Research suggests that the brain behaves differently during this state, as a result, it may be a useful tool to help with minimizing distractions and procrastination.
Flow
This actor, born in 1972, won two Academy Awards and three Golden Globes, starred in many cult-classic movies. He has been open about his issues with alcohol and went to rehab for the first time in 2001.
Following a stay at a treatment center in 2018, this actor said on social media, “If you have a problem, getting help is a sign of courage, not weakness or failure.”
Ben Affleck