Defense: Fantasy
Eventually, the fantasy bubble gets popped, and the addict realizes they’ve wasted a lot of time when they could have been making progress.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Defense: Minimizing
Eventually, things get so bad that even the minimizer gets frightened.
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Defense: Externalization
Eventually, through painful experience, the externalizer recognizes that the secret of recovery is focusing on changing yourself, not others.
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Defense: Rationalization
Eventually, the rationalizer (through painful experience) realizes that instead of serving as a remedy, drugs and alcohol are actually making problems worse
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Critical Thinking
At one time, critical thinking skills were a required part of education in many schools. I have the impression that’s no longer the case. Too bad, because faced with a flood of contradictory arguments, we need them more than ever.
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