The skill base for a successful recovery from behavioral addiction obviously depends on the skill base of the person who came into the recovery room or the doctor's office.
Coping Skills for Addiction Recovery
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The skill base for a successful recovery from behavioural addiction obviously depends on the skill base of the someone that came into the recovery room or came into the doctor's office.
Many people come into the recovery room and they really have very few life management skills; very few skills of how to cope with feelings, how to date, or how to obtain a job.
Then there are others who virtually have almost all the skills necessary for a life except a few, and those few are generally about how to cope with uncomfortable feeling states.
If that were to be the only skill I would recommend everyone acquire, that would be it, and that's what I'm calling the development of emotional muscle.
This skill is about "How do I learn to feel sad, depressed, lonely, or whatever, without reaching out to my magic elixir or magic behaviour to sort of self-medicate that feeling away?"