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The Journey Begins With You
During the first week of treatment, as people gothrough withdrawal from drugs, alcohol, caffeine,sugar, work, outside relationships, or whatever they havebeen using to alter their mood, they are often too miserable to have the energy to keep up their usual defenses. Wetake advantage of the situation and do everything we canto penetrate their denial. No one wants to face being diagnosed as an addict, especially being addicted to a substance that is necessary to life!
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We break down the denial process in groups, identifying with each other tounderstand how isolation is the nature of the addiction. We also make patients aware of their defense mechanisms, which are the unique ways we protect who wethink we are or hide who we think we're not. By the end ofthe first week, patients will have heard enough testimony about the nature of addiction to fully identify, and oftendiscover it is not such a painful admission when it takes place in a group setting.
The second objective of the first week is to get peopleto identify and express their feelings. As you read thissection, you will also be given many opportunities toidentify yourself as a food addict, and tools in the work article to help you get in touch with feelings and behavior you may have been working hard to deny.
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