Tag Archives: rationalization

the two state mind theory

March 31, 2010 – 6:34 pm

I meant to write about this days ago – honestly, the energy is just sucked out of me lately. Or so it seems to me at any rate. It seems that people around the net are writing about things that I need to hear. Steve Aitchison wrote about being fat and the “Two State Mind [...]

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riding it out

March 10, 2010 – 7:12 pm

This post is out of sequence but it’s what I’ve been thinking about lately and I’m inserting it here between abuse and dependency because it has a lot to do with my old friend, rationalization. One of the things we talked about at support group this week was dealing with cravings and getting back “on [...]

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when it’s really, really a problem

March 6, 2010 – 7:39 pm

When last we spoke we were focusing on what I decided to call “normal excess.” It can be really hard, especially from inside the problem, to really differentiate what is “normal” versus what is a problem behavior. There comes a time, however, that the problem behavior is clear and when you look at it honestly, [...]

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normal excess versus food abuse

January 23, 2010 – 2:41 pm

This has been a difficult topic. There seems to be a clear, yet ill defined gray area between what is normal and what is abuse. You could, back to our alcohol example, characterize any over-use of alcohol as abusive drinking and some people would do so. I see a subsection of over-use as essentially normal [...]

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