Is getting over habits easier when you know vs denial

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Let me explain. Say someone has a habit of doing something, but then stops before it gets worse, saying to themselves "that isn't me" "I won't be that person who does whatever it is they do". Do you figure if the person finally realizes that they already are what they deny themselves not being or not exactly there yet, that it be easier to face and give up on it easier? Or is that even worse when a person realizes they are who they tried not becoming?

To put it simpler, the drunk man stops drinking for a while so he doesn't become an alcoholic, he denies that he already is one, but it only last so long before he picks it up again and gets drunk some more. The cycle continues because he doesn't want to be that guy, but he is doing the very definition of being insane. Because he keeps going through that cycle expecting to break the habit, that urge to grab another drink. Do you figure if the man finally stops to realize that he is what he was trying not to be, and then doesn't deny it to himself anymore, do you figure the habit would be easier to break? Or would it be worse because he knows he is what he has been denying for so long?

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Realize or not, that is just crazy, at that point the person won't stop. 0
It would make stopping harder because the person knows now. 0
I think it can go both ways depending if the person wants to stop. 2
Well to fix a problem you have to admit it, so yeah. 2
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  • Holzman_67
    7 years ago

    Hmm well in my experience I don't know if it makes a difference unless there is a strong desire to change.

    Like I got high casually for a couple of years before I became a drug addict. I enjoyed those couple of years and the first couple of years of being an addict, even when I knew I was an addict. It was only when I grew tired of the pitfalls of that lifestyle, the effect it had on my family, my health, my finances, that I begun to have any negative feelings about drug use and that really was the birth of change.

    I think though with an example of addiction, had I of decided when I was using casually that I did not want to risk becoming an addict and stopped then, that it would've been alot easier than continuing on and trying to stop once my addiction was more severe. I mean that goes without saying really.

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  • SmokeEverything
    7 years ago

    Nobody who's a drug addict doesn't know it. The denial is for the other idiots around you who'll make you go to rehab if you admit it to them. And why would you want to go to rehab?

    Drug addiction is awesome, when managed properly. Rehab is an industry that preys on vulnerable people. They'll tell you if you even have the slightest suspicion that you might be drinking too much, you're a full blown drug addict and need to pay them for help.

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    • yasss
      7 years ago

      "Drug addiction is awesome" Really dude... Really??

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  • satanniggasandpopsicle
    7 years ago

    Depends on what we're talking about.

    But yes, I think if you can admit to yourself your addicted to drugs, then you might be able to change easier because you see the negative side of yourself

    But of course thats only if you actually ARE addicted to drugs and not just think you are

    If you think you are, thats still your choice (to change), but the only problem im seeing with doing, lets say marijuana, is if your addicted or makes you too lazy or something.

    Only any negative effect it may have on you. If you're just thinking its hurting you, but its really not, then thats just your paranoid mind playing tricks on you haha

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