How Can I Stop My Behavioral Addiction on My Own?
How can I stop my behavioral addiction on my own? – The answer to what your first step in stopping your behavioral addiction should be lies in the addiction itself. What is it all about? As we’ve spoken about before, the first thing I would recommend is, without shame, without blame, and without putting yourself down, stand back, get out a spreadsheet or a piece of graph paper and start to just graph how often and the frequency of when you engage in this particular behavior. Beyond that, there’s a substantial amount that you might do. That is, figure out what times you typically engage in the behavior. If you look at an addict, generally speaking, they engage in their destructive behavior in a slice of hours. Let’s say 5:00 to 7:00, or early in the morning, or something like that. Those are the hours that the body has been taught (sort of like muscle memory) to go and to engage in these sort of behaviors, and the individual should try to find activities that are inconsistent with the destructive addictive behavior. Another sort of strategy: they may go to the self-help book section at their local library or bookstore, they might go on the Internet and try to get some basic knowledge about what might be going on, they can consult a professional; a psychologist or a physician who is specializing in addiction. Let’s just be frank. Most physicians have no idea about addictions. They have a very pessimistic view on being able to cure an addiction. So, you need to seek out somebody who really knows something about it, and don’t …
Best of Our Blogs: December 14, 2012 | World of Psychology
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I picked up a little book called Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore on a trip recently. It was one of those “take a book and leave … And this can help explain everything from being more creative to dealing with addiction. Instead of doing away with …
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Exclusive Interview: 'Hooked But Not Hopeless' Author Dr. Sherry Hoppe …
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But in the book 'Hooked But Not Hopeless: Escaping the Lure of Addiction,' Dr. Sherry Lee Hoppe addresses those questions and more to help readers understand the complexity of addiction. During an exclusive interview with TestCountry, Dr. Hoppe briefly …
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Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo
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Best known for The Book of Awakening, a No. 1 New York Times bestseller (and Oprah favorite), Nepo has taught poetry and spirituality for more than 30 years, advocating "the usefulness of daily inner life to help us stay close to what is sacred." As a …
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