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This Is Why Addicts Play The Blame Game

28 May 2024 · 0 min

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Amber Hollingsworth explains that people with addictions often blame others as part of the denial process: they rationalize and justify repeated harmful choices by seeking external reasons, trying to understand themselves, and avoiding responsibility. She notes this blaming/rationalizing behavior is not unique to people with addictions.

People with addictions will blame other people often because they're making these decisions to keep making bad decisions over and over and over again. And then they're looking for a reason. So they're trying to understand themselves. They're trying to rationalize and justify. And that's a big part of what goes into the denial process, what goes into blaming other people. And guess what? It's not just people with addictions that do that.