Outpatient Addiction Treatment: Self-Inflicted Emotional Strain – Outpatient Program

Intensive Outpatient addiction treatment at The Right Step is presented in a series of Sessions to help you increase your understanding of addiction and the methods necessary for recovery from addiction. 

Session Seven will include discussions regarding the emotions, thoughts and behaviors of the addict or alcoholic, including the different types of beliefs that can help or hinder the progress of achieving positive change in recovery from an addiction.

You will learn that while participation in your recovery is an essential element to success, there is also a large difference between being motivated to succeed and working hard verses entertaining irrational beliefs wherein you apply too much pressure to yourself during the process of attempting to change.

When you employ irrational beliefs in your attempts at recovery from addiction, you incur the fear of addiction relapse, as well as generate additional feelings of shame, guilt and anger.  You will have already learned the ways that placing demands upon yourself can negatively impact your recovery and at this point you will have the chance to reflect on the emotional turmoil that can be created through the use of these pressure-filled thoughts.