Lesson 6: Managing Cravings And Urges - Slide 32
Missing An Old Friend
- When symptoms are gone there
is an emptiness
- There are secondary gains to addiction; you don’t have to face the real problems
- Managing obsessive thoughts, cravings and urges are a way to reduce symptoms and to allow you to focus your attention on other important life problems and to develop the other skills required for relapse prevention
Notes:
Pg. 106, Schwartz, Jeffrey, M., 1996, “Brain Lock, Free Yourself From Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior, A Four-Step Self-Treatment Method To Change Your Brain Chemistry,” Regan Books/Harper Collins Publishers, New York.
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