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Mind Traps: Substance Use Edition

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Spot the thinking traps that fuel cravings, slips, and shame—and the evidence-based ways to counter them—across MI moves, CBT skills, and classic distortions. This is a Middle School Science review game in a Jeopardy-style format: a teacher puts the board on one screen, teams pick clues by point value, and the class answers out loud — no student devices or accounts needed. Categories: Thinking Errors, More Thinking Errors, Definitions, Even More Thinking Errors, So Many Thinking Errors.

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  • Thinking Errors

    “They’ll think I’m boring if I don’t drink at the party.”

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    Mind reading

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  • More Thinking Errors

    “I had one drink, so I’m a complete failure.”

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    Labeling

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  • Definitions

    A type of psychotherapy that helps individuals identify and change unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

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    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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  • Even More Thinking Errors

    "I relapsed tonight, so I'll never be able to recover."

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    Overgeneralization

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  • So Many Thinking Errors

    “I noticed one craving today, so the whole week was bad.”

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    Mental filter

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Thinking Errors

$100 — “They’ll think I’m boring if I don’t drink at the party.”
Mind reading
$200 — "I should be able to go out with my friends without wanting to drink. Other people can do that."
"Should" statement
$300 — Cocaine is my drug of choice, so it's not a big deal if I drink.
Minimization
$400 — “If I can't go to a party without drinking, I'll never be able to have a social life."
All or nothing thinking
$500 — "Everyone I know drinks or uses, so it's normal."
Justification

More Thinking Errors

$100 — “I had one drink, so I’m a complete failure.”
Labeling
$200 — “Since I slipped, I might as well go all out.”
All-or-nothing thinking
$300 — “I feel ashamed, so I must be back at square one.”
Emotional reasoning
$400 — “I messed up tonight; I always mess up.”
Overgeneralization
$500 — “This tiny mistake will wreck my whole recovery.”
Magnification

Definitions

$100 — A type of psychotherapy that helps individuals identify and change unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
$200 — The way a person acts or responds to a situation, thought, feeling or experience
Behavior
$300 — An emotional experience that occurs in response to a thought, situation, memory, or experience
Feeling
$400 — replacing negative, unhelpful thoughts with more realistic and balanced ones
Cognitive restructuring
$500 — a thought that pops into your mind quickly in response to a situation, feeling, or experience
Automatic thought

Even More Thinking Errors

$100 — "I relapsed tonight, so I'll never be able to recover."
Overgeneralization
$200 — "I don't care about tomorrow. I just want to feel good tonight."
Tunnel Vision
$300 — “I should be able to handle just one.”
"should" statement
$400 — “I should have stopped my friend from taking that drink; their lapse is on me.”
Personalization
$500 — "I know I'll relapse if I try to get sober."
Fortune-telling

So Many Thinking Errors

$100 — “I noticed one craving today, so the whole week was bad.”
Mental filter
$200 — “Those three sober days don’t count; they were easy.”
Discounting the positive
$300 — “It was just a few shots; no big deal.”
Minimization
$400 — "I'm a loser because I messed up and took a drink today."
Labeling
$500 — “If urges show up, disaster is coming.”
Catastrophizing

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