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Title: Addictive Behavior


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Addictive Behavior
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Addiction
  • Any pathological relationship to any mood
    altering experience that has life damaging
    consequences.
  • John Bradshaw

3
Addiction
  • Primary Illness
  • Progressive
  • Permanent
  • Predictable
  • Persuasive
  • Terminal

4
Substance Addictions
  • Drugs
  • Alcohol
  • Nicotine
  • Food Abuse
  • Compulsive overeating, may lead to obesity
  • Bulimia nervosa, binge/purge syndrome
  • Anorexia nervosa,
  • self-imposed starvation
  • Chronic dieting,
  • thin/fat syndrome

5
Activity Addictions
  • Work
  • Gambling
  • Spending
  • Power
  • Exercise

6
Thought Addictions
  • Obsessive thinking
  • Obsessive/compulsive behaviors
  • Worry a blend of above

7
People Addictions
  • Relationship
  • Love
  • Sexual

8
Feeling Addictions
  • Rage
  • Fear
  • Misery
  • Guilt

9
Codependency
  • Codependency is a pattern of painful dependency
    on compulsive behaviors and on approval from
    others in an attempt to find safety, self-worth
    and identity. Recovery is possible.
  • Panel of professionals at the First Conference on
    Codependency in Scottsdale Arizona in August 1989

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Characteristics of Codependency
  • Difficulty in accurately identifying feelings
  • Lack of personal boundaries

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Characteristics of Codependency
  • Clinging Relationships
  • Relationship addictions
  • Difficulty in forming or maintaining close or
    intimate relationships

12
Characteristics of Codependency
  • Rigidity in behavior and/or attitudes
  • Difficulty in adjusting to change
  • Control issues
  • Physical illnesses

13
Characteristics of Codependency
  • Caretaking as a form of control
  • Indispensable
  • Martyr
  • Feelings
  • Out of touch
  • distorted
  • Feeling overly responsible for other peoples
    behavior and feelings

14
Characteristics of Codependency
  • Loss of morality
  • Difficulty in making decisions
  • Feeling powerless

15
Characteristics of Codependency
  • A basic sense of shame and low self-esteem
  • Avoidance of conflict
  • Constant need for others approval.

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Enabler
  • A person who makes it possible (easier and
    more comfortable) for another person to continue
    their addictive behavior. Enabling behavior can
    be demonstrated in relation to a friend, parent,
    spouse, child, work partner, or neighbor.

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Dont be One
Enabler
  • Dont make excuses to cover up drunken behavior.
  • Dont clean up after them when they make a mess
    while abusing drugs or alcohol.
  • Dont believe repeated promises.

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Be One
Friend
  • Seek advice from professionals if you are worried
    about a friends drinking/drug-taking.
  • Take action promptly.
  • Recognize that you are affected by your friends
    behavior.

19
Enabling Behaviors(Denial)
  • He/she is not an alcoholic/chemically dependent
    (allows the person to continue, expects the
    person to use self-control)

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Enabling Behaviors(Denial)
  • Drinking/using with the chemically dependent
    person

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Enabling Behaviors(Rationalization)
  • Justifying the alcohol/drug use by agreeing with
    or accepting the excuses (rationalizations) of
    the user.

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Enabling Behaviors(Denial and Rationalization)
  • Avoiding the Problem
  • Failing to identify or express feelings
    (stuffing feelings)
  • Keeping peace at any price
  • Tranquilizing feelings with medications, food,
    work

23
Enabling Behaviors(Rationalizations)
  • Minimizing
  • He/she doesnt use/drink that much or that
    often
  • It is not that bad

24
Enabling Behaviors
  • Protecting
  • From consequences of his/her actions
  • The image of the dependent
  • The image of the family, parents, employer
  • The person from pain
  • Self from pain

25
Enabling Behaviors
  • Blaming
  • Lecturing
  • arguing

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Enabling Behaviors
  • Feeling Superior
  • Treating the dependent like a child

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Enabling Behaviors
  • Controlling
  • Lets skip the party!
  • Lets not go to that bar.
  • Lets not have Thanksgiving at our house this
    year.

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Enabling Behaviors
  • Waiting and enduring
  • Its just a phase he/she is going through it
    will pass.

29
Enabling Behaviors
  • Being overly responsible
  • Taking on his/her responsibilities
  • Doing the things he/she should be able to do for
    him/herself.

30
The Cycle of Addiction
6.Crash- Let-down withdrawal
  • Emotional Pain
  • Guilt, fear, shame
  • Childhood learning
  • to Stuff pain

31
Myths and Realities of Alcoholism
  • Myth Alcohol is predominately a sedative or
    depressant drug.
  • Reality Alcohols pharmacological effects
    change with the amount drunk. In small
    quantities alcohol is a stimulant. In large
    quantities, alcohol acts as a sedative. It is
    loaded with calories.

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Myths and Realities of Alcoholism
  • Myth Alcohol is an addictive drug, and anyone
    who drinks long and hard enough will become
    addicted.
  • Reality Alcohol is selectively addictive it is
    addictive for only a minority of its users,
    namely, alcoholics. Most people can drink
    occasionally, daily, even heavily, without
    becoming addicted to alcohol. Others will become
    addicted no matter how much they drink.

33
Myths and Realities of Alcoholism
  • Myth When the alcoholic is drinking, he/she
    reveals their true personality.
  • Reality Alcohols effect on the brain causes
    severe psychological and emotional distortions of
    the normal personality. Sobriety reveals the
    alcoholics true personality.

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Myths and Realities of Alcoholism
  • Myth The fact that alcoholics often continue to
    be depressed, anxious, irritable, and unhappy
    after they stop drinking is evidence that their
    disease is caused by psychological problems.
  • Fact Alcoholics who continue to be depressed
    etc. after they stop drinking are actually
    suffering from a phenomenon called the
    protracted withdrawal syndrome. They physical
    damage caused by years of excessive drinking has
    not been complete reversed. They need more help.

35
Myths and Realities of Alcoholism
  • Myth I drive better after a few drinks.
  • Reality Even professional drivers abilities
    diminish sharply at levels as low as 0.03...just
    a few drinks. Judgment is affected, so people
    only think they are driving better, when they are
    much worse.

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Myths and Realities of Alcoholism
  • Myth People are friendlier when they are drunk.
  • Reality Maybe, but they are also more hostile,
    dangerous, criminal, homicidal and more suicidal.
  • ½ of all murders
  • 1/3 of all suicides

37
Myths and Realities of Alcoholism
  • Myth It is rude to refuse a drink.
  • Reality It is rude to push a drink on someone
    who doesnt want it or shouldnt have it.

38
College Statistics
  • 95 of violent crime and 53 of all injuries on
    campus are alcohol related.
  • Alcohol is implicated in 41 of all academic
    problems and 28 of dropouts.
  • 240,000-350,000 of current 12 million
    undergraduates will die from alcohol related
    causes more than those who will get MAs and
    PHDs combined.
  • 60 of college women with STDs (including AIDS)
    were under the influence of alcohol when they had
    intercourse.
  • 90 of all campus rapes occur when alcohol is
    being used.

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About Alcoholic Substances
  • A 12 ounce can of domestic beer has as much
    alcohol as a shot (1.5oz) of 80 proof whisky,
    gin, or vodka or 5 ounces of wine.
  • Many imported beers, ice beers and microbrewed
    beers contain 6 alcohol (sometimes much more),
    so 12 oz. Is more potent than a shot of liquor.
  • Some malt liquors pack nearly twice as much
    alcohol per ounce as regular beer.
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