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How Addicts Manipulate Their Reality #recoveryjourney #addictionrecovery #addictiontreatment

2 May 2025 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, Amber Hollingsworth explains that while most people align their behavior with their personal and social value systems when conflicts arise, addicts and alcoholics respond differently. Instead of adjusting their actions to fit their values, they alter or rationalize their values to accommodate continued substance use, effectively manipulating their reality to avoid confronting the mismatch between behavior and expectations.

Human beings, when their behavior crosses out of bounds with their value systems and the value systems of the people around them, especially their own value system, they usually get their behavior in line. But what addicts and alcoholics do is when they cross their own values and expectations and the values and expectations of people around them, they don't change their behavior. They change their values.