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- 2. Certain medications called____ are effective in helping to restore brain chemical balance, are not mood altering and support sobriety.
- 4. Being depressed during alcohol or other drug _____ is natural and expected.
- 6. People can become depressed because certain brain ___ are out of balance.
- 7. When people become aware that they have hurt others or hurt themselves, it is ____ for them to feel guilty
- 8. It is important in recovery to learn to _____ negative emotions like sadness that are a natural part of life.
- 11. Alcohol and medications such as sedatives, sleeping pills and _____ are depressants.
- 13. Many children in _____ families feel guilty when things go wrong.
- 14. Depressed people often have a difficult time___ and making decisions
- 15. Depression _______ the likelihood of suicidal feelings and suicide.
- 18. Depression, including withdrawal-related depression, is related to an _____ in certain brain chemicals.
- 19. Peoiple who drank alcohol and used drugs to self-medicate their _____ of depression need to pay special attention to their feelings during recovery
- 20. Being depressed is more ____ and long lasting than sadness.
- 21. Recovery involves learning to face reality without becoming ______ with guilt and without using any mood-altering drugs.
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- 1. Stimulants like cocaine and _____ may make people excited while they are high, but that high is typically followed by a crash that includes depression
- 2. People who suffer from both _____ and depression may need treatment for both problems
- 3. A natural reaction to traumatic or intensely emotional situation
- 5. Children in dysfunctional families do not realize that they are ______ to fix an unhealthy family
- 9. _____ people may initially feel guilty, but stop feeling guilty after a while as pre of the denial process.
- 10. People self-medicate their periods of depression with alcohol and other _____.
- 12. When guilt become the major feeling in their lives and _____ all other emotions and feelings for an extended period of time, it stops being healthy and normal.
- 16. Guilt helps people become aware of the adverse ______ of their addiction which is healthy and normal.
- 17. Therapy can help to identify circumstances that may cause, worsen, or prolong depression, and can give _____ to avoid these circumstances
