Outpatient Addiction Treatment: Effects of Irrational Beliefs in Addiction – Outpatient Program

As you receive treatment for the disease of addiction through the Intensive Outpatient Program at The Right Step, you will be afforded the opportunity to learn about the various beliefs that can hinder your progress in addiction recovery.

Supportive, licensed professionals will encourage you to participate in group discussions and exercises wherein you will find out what types of thoughts can reduce your confidence and perhaps even create a greater degree of vulnerability toward entering into the process of addiction relapse.

Individuals with drug addictions and alcohol addictions will be helped to understand healthy beliefs, thoughts and behaviors, verses unhealthy ones.  Included in these discussions will be the effects that putting too much pressure on oneself can cause.

Addictive Thinking: Healthy Desires and Unhealthy Expectations

Your addiction treatment course at The Right Step will include an increased education regarding irrational beliefs and demands.  You will find that healthy desires become unhealthy when they turn into demands.

Experienced instructors will discuss with you the ways that demanding to succeed makes you less likely to succeed and can undermine your confidence.  Inflexible, exaggerated beliefs will also lower your confidence and often lead you to experience a lower performance level in achieving your goals than you would otherwise be able to accomplish.