Addiction Recovery PAW Symptoms: Difficulty Thinking

Experiencing the symptoms of PAW, or post-acute withdrawal may be difficult to cope with and will be thoroughly addressed during this particular session of your outpatient addiction treatment program at The Right Step.

People who are experiencing the symptoms of PAW often have an inability to think clearly that can be very stressful for them to cope with. This may also include experiencing the inability to concentrate and the impairment of abstract reasoning.

To better understand what this means, you will learn in your treatment for a substance abuse addiction that an abstraction is a non-concrete idea or concept.

Addiction Treatment Information: Concentration Issues

Other symptoms of PAW may include experiencing rigid and repetitive thinking, which means that they may have the same thoughts going around and around in their head.

Progressing in this eight-week outpatient addiction treatment program at The Right Step, will include learning that there are several thought disorders experienced by a recovering person when PAW is activated. Intelligence is not affected. It is as if the brain is malfunctioning sometimes. Sometimes it works all right. Sometimes is does not.

One of the most common PAW symptoms you will learn about in addiction treatment is the inability to concentrate for more than a few minutes. Impairment of abstract reasoning is another common symptom of post-acute withdrawal.

As partially mentioned previously, an abstraction is a non-concrete idea or concept, something that you cannot hold in your hand, take a picture of, or put in a box. Concentration is more of a problem when abstract concepts are involved.

Another common symptom is rigid and repetitive thinking. The same thoughts may go around and around in your head and you are unable to break through this circular thinking in order to put thoughts together in an orderly way.

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