Those Pesky Control Strategies
...(a) common tactic is to swear off alcohol entirely for the duration of the Holiday season. Then, having 'proved' to oneself (and, hopefully, to others) that you can abstain, you promptly go right back to drinking.
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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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Defense: Intellectualizing
Eventually, things get so bad that the details become irrelevant and the objections seem unimportant.
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Alcoholic Defenses
Even if such arguments have stymied you for decades, it’s quite possible, with a little coaching, to deal with them effectively in future.
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