Summary: <p>Relapse Prevention</p> <p>CEUs can be earned for this presentation at <a href="https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/574/c/">https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/product/id/574/c/</a></p> <p>Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LMHC, LPC<br> Objectives<br> ~ Define Relapse<br> ~ Identify Relapse Warning Signs<br> ~ Identify Strengths<br> ~ Learn about how your issue developed<br> Relapse Definition<br> ~ Relapse is the return to something that has been previously stopped<br> ~ Relapse is multidimensional<br> ~ Emotional<br> ~ Mental<br> ~ Physical<br> ~ Social<br> ~ A relapse is when you start returning to any of these people, places, things, behaviors or feeling states.<br> Activity: Distress vs. Happiness Worksheet</p> <p>In your Unhappiness<br> ~ Emotionally<br> ~ Mentally<br> ~ Physically<br> ~ Socially</p> <p>When you are Happy<br> ~ Emotionally<br> ~ Mentally<br> ~ Physically<br> ~ Socially<br> Triggers<br> ~ Triggers are stimuli that set off an event.<br> ~ Triggers can prompt positive or negative event as<br> ~ Triggers can be<br> ~ Visual<br> ~ Auditory<br> ~ Tactile<br> ~ Olfactory<br> ~ Cognitive<br> ~ Temporal (Time or location)</p> <p>Emotional Relapse<br> ~ In emotional relapse, your emotions and behaviors become negative and unpleasant.<br> ~ You start finding it difficult to experience pleasure<br> ~ What triggers your negative emotions (Anger/resentment/jealousy/guilt; anxiety/fear/stress; depression)<br> ~ Things/Media<br> ~ People<br> ~ Places<br> ~ Events<br> Emotional Relapse<br> ~ Negative emotions make us uncomfortable<br> ~ Identify the emotion, explore why you are feeling that way and take steps to fix the problem<br> ~ You can become stuck in the emotion, sometimes<br> ~ Nurturing and blowing it out of proportion<br> ~ Compounding it with other emotions like anger and guilt<br> ~ Personalizing it<br> ~ Trying to escape from it<br> ~ Remember that emotions are just cues like a stoplight.<br> ~ You feel how you feel in the moment<br> ~ You can choose to change or improve the next moment<br> Preventing Emotional Relapse<br> ~ Practice mindfulness<br> ~ Increase positive experiences (real and guided imagery)<br> ~ Keep a gratitude journal<br> ~ Avoid personalizing something that may not be about you<br> ~ Remember that…<br> ~ Negative emotions are the mind’s way of telling us to get off our butts and do something—Like our car’s idiot light or hunger pangs<br> ~ Dwelling on, nurturing, avoiding or hiding from negative emotions never makes anything better<br> ~ You can *choose* to feel and fix, or relapse and repeat<br> ~ Identify and put in place triggers for positive emotions</p> <p>Activity<br> ~ List 10 things that you chose to get anxious or angry about over the last week<br> ~ Why did you get upset? (What was your mind telling you needed to be fixed)<br> ~ Did holding on to the upsetness do any good?<br> ~ What was your initial reaction, and was it helpful?<br> ~ What could you do differently next time to either<br> ~ Change/fix the situation (Improve the next moment)<br> ~ Change how you feel about the situation (Walk the middle path)<br> ~ Let it go (Radical Acceptance)<br> Mental Relapse<br> ~ In mental relapse there's a war going on in your mind.<br> ~ Part of you wants to stay positive, but part of you is struggling with tolerating the distress.<br> ~ The signs of mental relapse are:<br> ~ Focusing on the negative<br> ~ Having a pessimistic/helpless/hopeless attitude<br> ~ If you had an addiction, you may also be:<br> ~ Thinking about people, places, and things you used with<br> ~ Glamorizing your past use<br> ~ Lying </p>
