Assessment
Here are some questions to help you assess whether you would benefit from some form of addiction treatment. If you answer yes three times or more we advise you to call Charter Day Care, or another recommended addiction treatment provider, for further advice.
About drugs and alcohol:-
1. Have you made attempts to cut down on your drinking/using in the last three months?2. In the past three months have you used alcohol or drugs to wake up or fall asleep?
3. Has anyone complained or shown concern about your drug/alcohol use in the last three months?
4. Do you spend a lot of time thinking about your drinking/drug use?
5. Have you missed a social event or avoided anyone because of your alcohol/drug use?
6. Have you ever experienced a brush with death due to your alcohol/drug use?
7. Do you continue to drink/use drugs despite persistent negative effects?
8. Are you afraid of giving up drinking or taking drugs?
9. Do you respond with contempt before investigation?
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About your relationships:-
1. Do you feel responsible for other people’s feelings, thoughts and needs?2. Do you always put your needs second?
3. Do you feel unappreciated and resentful?
4. Do you seem to always choose emotionally or physically unavailable partners?
5. Do you care for others in the hope that they will love you?
6. Are your friends and partners often in a crisis?
7. Are you the rock that others lean on?
8. Do you feel you have to have an answer for other people’s problems?
9. Do you often wonder why others don’t put themselves out for you as you would for them?
10. Do you often feel under too much pressure, having over committed yourself?
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About your eating patterns:-
1. Do you eat to comfort yourself?2. Do you stop eating when you are upset or angry?
3. Do you think about food all the time?
4. Do you try to control what you eat, but never feel satisfied?
5. Are you always on a diet?
6. Have others expressed concern about your weight?
7. Does your weight affect your feelings?
8. Do you eat in secret?
9. Do you make yourself sick after you have eaten?
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About yourself:-
1. Do you often feel so anxious you can’t do anything?2. Do you look at yourself with loathing?
3. Do you compare yourself with others and come off worse?
4. Do you feel there is no point to living?
5. Do you feel angry a lot of the time?
6. Do you feel loved ones are constantly picking on you?
7. Do you have a mind that is so busy you find it hard to relax/sleep?
8. Do you avoid spending time on your own?
9. Do you often feel or hear yourself saying that you can’t cope?
10. Do you feel resentful of others or events that have taken place in your life?
11. Do you isolate yourself emotionally and physically?
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