Stress Management and Addiction

Stress can cause addiction.  Addiction can cause stress.  Stress management is essential to the management of any addiction.

There is no point in switching one addiction for another.  The goal is to release and relinquish the cause of the addictive escapist behavior and replace it with a healthy,  productive, satisfying life-style. 

Consider the amount of time spent engaging in addiction the few minutes a day spent reliving stress is miniscule.  The rewards for stress management are infinite.

There is good stress and bad stress.  Good stress motivates us to action.  Good stress is the driving force behind accomplishing goals.  Weddings and divorces are both stressful.  Birth and death are both stressful.  Addiction and recovery or abstinence are stressful.  Your personal view of the event causes either good or bad stress.

Bad stress results in taking negative actions that only deep levels of despair and the desire to escape.  A person can become more entrenched in the addictive process or develop yet another addiction. 

There is no point to recovery from a cold and get the flu.  There is little benefit from remaining abstinent from one addiction only to develop another.  The key is to manage the fears, anxieties, and negative self-talk that accompanies self-destruction behavior.

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