Lesson 8: Managing Internal Causes Of Relapse - Slide  16

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I Want To, But I Don’t Want To

  • People enter quitting with fluctuating and conflicting motivations
  • This internal conflict is called ambivalence
  • Ambivalence is experienced as simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings toward stopping use and staying in quitting
  • You feel attraction and repulsion at the same time
Notes:

Pg. 36, “Motivational Interviewing Preparing People to Change Addictive Behaviour,” William Miller and Stephan Rollnick, The Guildford Press, New York, 1991www.Merriam-Webster.com

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