Addiction
What is the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.
What is refusal to accept external reality because it is too threatening; arguing against an anxiety-provoking stimulus by stating it doesn't exist; resolution of emotional conflict and reduction of anxiety by refusing to perceive or consciously acknowledge the more unpleasant aspects of external reality.
HALT
Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired
No intention on changing behavior.
Pre-contemplation
What is a physical condition caused by chronic use of a tolerance forming drug, in which abrupt or gradual drug withdrawal causes unpleasant physical symptoms.
What is Indirect expression of hostility.
HOW
Active modification of behavior.
Action
What is excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically a partner who requires support due to an illness or addiction.
What is the process of attempting to repel desires towards pleasurable instincts, caused by a threat of suffering if the desire is satisfied; the desire is moved to the unconscious in the attempt to prevent it from entering consciousness; seemingly unexplainable naivety, memory lapse or lack of awareness of one's own situation and condition; the emotion is conscious, but the idea behind it is absent.
KISS
Keep it simple, stupid
Intent on taking action to address problem.
Preparation
Who was "the Great Bambino?"
Who is Babe Ruth/George Herman Ruth Jr.?
What is to shield people from experiencing the full impact and consequences of their behavior.
What is a primitive form of paranoia. Projection reduces anxiety by allowing the expression of the undesirable impulses or desires without becoming consciously aware of them; attributing one's own unacknowledged, unacceptable, or unwanted thoughts and emotions to another; includes severe prejudice and jealousy, hypervigilance to external danger, and "injustice collecting", all with the aim of shifting one's unacceptable thoughts, feelings and impulses onto someone else, such that those same thoughts, feelings, beliefs and motivations are perceived as being possessed by the other.
D.E.A.D.
Drugs end all dreams
Aware problem exists, but with no commitment to action.
Contemplation
What is a gradual process that begins weeks and sometimes months before an individual picks up a drink or drug. There are three stages to relapse: emotional, mental, and physical. The common denominator of emotional relapse is poor self-care.
What is convincing oneself that no wrong has been done and that all is or was all right through faulty and false reasoning. An indicator of this defense mechanism can be seen socially as the formulation of convenient excuses.
FEAR
Face everything and recover
Sustained change. New behavior replaces old.
Maintenance