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| Why do people take drugs? |
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Feel good-sensation seeking
Feel better-self medication |
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| remaining in treatment/recovery because of external leverage or fear of the consequences |
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| Conformity/Identification |
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| remaining in treatment/recovery because of affiliation or friendships |
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| Commitment/Individualization |
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| remaining in treatment/recovery because of ownership of growth and internalization of values |
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| You completely reject the thought or the feeling |
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| You think someone else has your thought or feeling or issue |
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| You minimalize the intensity of the thought or feeling |
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| You come up with various explanations to justify the situation (while denying your feelings) |
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| You are vaguley aware of the thought or feeling, but try to hide it |
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| You turn the feeling into its opppsite |
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| You redirect your feelings to another target |
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| A type of rationalization, only more intellectualized |
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| You try to reverse or undo your feeling by DOING something that indicates the opposite feeling |
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| You "think" the feeling, but dont really feel it. |
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| You revert to old, usually immature, behavior to ventilate your feeling |
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| You redirect the feeling into a socially productive activity |
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| Whenever being held accountable for behavior, provide and excuse |
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| A reason not to solve the problem and also builds up resentments. It also gets the focus off the user and onto others |
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| Shifting the focus of an issue to avoid solving a problem |
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| I think, therefore it is. Permits someone to function according to what they want, regardless of the realities or steps needed in a situation |
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-By commission
-By omission-saying partly what is, but leaving out contrary parts
-By assent making believe you agree with what is being said in order to look good, even when there is no true intention of going along or you do not agree |
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| By making others look ludicrous, the focus is off my behavior. |
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| I know what you think, what you feel, what others are doing, what really goes in or out there. These assumptions serve to maintain whatever drinking or drugging activity I wish to maintain |
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| Overdo being nice to others to try to get something, manipulate, use or control a situation for ones own purpose |
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| Go to church on sunday, get drunk and hit the kids on tuesday back in church on wednesday. This is not "inconsistent" in my eyes |
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| Unclear and non-specific in order to not be pinned down on an issue. Use lack of detail |
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| Can be used to control others or leverage power |
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| used when not getting ones way. Wlak out of a room during a conflict walk off an assignment, refuse to listen, organize others to be angry at those who support the opposition |
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| Unable to solve problems or do anything by ones self. Elicits constructive criticism, enabling, rescuing behaviors from others while side stepping responsibility for own behavior |
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| Create distractions to avoid looking at own issues, problems, responsibilities |
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| refuse to take part in the input that is uncomfortable |
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| concern for how one might "look" |
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| minimizing or maximizing the significance of an issue, so as not to address the problem |
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| Using academic, abstract or theoretical discussions to avoid dealing with feelings or the real issues |
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| Oxygen, food, water, and a relatively constant body temperature |
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| free from crime, abuse, terror and any perceived threat to my basic well being. |
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| Love Affection and Belonging |
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| To escape feelings of loneliness and alienation., and give(and receive) love, affection, and the sense of belonging. |
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| A stable, firmly based, high leel of self respect, and respect from others in order to feel satisfied, self confident and valuable. If these needs are not met, the person feels inferior, weak, helpless and worthless |
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| A persons need to be and do that which the person was born to do. It is the "calling". If these needs are not met, the person feels restlessness, on edge, tense and lacking something. Lower needs may also produce a restless feeling, but here it is much easier to find the cause. |
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