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Risk Management

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  1. Introduction to Risk Management
    What is Risk Management?
  2. Importance of Risk Management
  3. How Do I Set a Goal?
  4. Reflection Activity: What I Want and What is Important to Me
  5. High-Risk Situations
    What Can Lead to My Increased Risk
  6. What Else Can Increase My Risk
  7. Activity: What Are My Triggers
  8. Activity: What Else Increases Risk?
  9. Summary
  10. Crisis
    What Is a Crisis?
  11. What Are 5 Things I Can Do During a Crisis?
  12. What Types of Support are Available and How Can I Access it?
  13. Crisis Plan Worksheet
  14. Development and Growth
    What's Emotion Got To Do With It?
  15. Activity: Self-Reflection
  16. Summary: Emotions
  17. What's Thoughts Got To Do With It?
  18. What If I'm Craving To Use?
  19. Activity: Coping Strategies
  20. Summary: Thoughts
  21. Anchors
    What is Recovery?
  22. What are Some Anchors of Recovery?
  23. Activity: Substance Use Demotivators and Motivators + Pros and Cons of Recovery
Risk Management What’s Thoughts Got To Do With It?
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What’s Thoughts Got To Do With It?

There is a strong connection between your emotions, thoughts, and actions. 

These thought patterns can also happen when someone is relapsing. When you’re at risk, it may feel like you need to use and your thoughts may be filled with using. Due to this, we can experience common cognitive distortions in relapse, which are where your thoughts make you believe misguided information. These include: 

  •  Denying that you are falling into old habits: “I’ve been using again this week because I am stressed about work. I won’t use again after this week” 
  • Rationalizing high risk behaviour: “I know I shouldn’t walk past the bar on my way home. But I will only walk by this once, so it’s fine” 
  • Someone else’s fault: “My friends were all drinking so I had a beer too” 
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts that can happen without warning, such as wanting to use during times of stress. Coping with these intrusive and destructive thoughts can be difficult, but analyzing the situation and looking for other possible explanations might help you feel more positive.