Cognitive Distortion Topic 3: Everyone has defense mechanisms that protect our sanity and assist in self-preservation. For those in active addiction, these defense mechanisms keep people in their cycle of addiction. A functioning alcoholic will deny they even have a problem and those who have experienced trauma during their addiction will develop a form of dissociation to protect themselves from overwhelming guilt or shame.
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