Also known as denial, if you excuse the spelling. When we're active in our addiction, we can't face the fact that our situation is getting worse faster than we can lower our standards. Whether it's mounting health, financial or legal issues; trouble with our spouse or significant other; or even the constant feeling of worthlessness and dread we have inside, we can not face the fact that our addiction is the source of our problems and we need to get help.
Everyone has a certain amount of denial built into them. It's an unconscious defense mechanism that allows us to get through our day and ignore the negative stimuli we are often presented with. With addiction, denial becomes a problem when everyone around you knows you have a problem and is telling you you have a problem, but you are telling them everything is "fine" and you can fix your problems on your own.
For addicts, the time when they finally wake up and realize they can't do it on their own is usually when the damaging results of their addictive behavior are perceived to be worse than any possible damage to their ego. For some, this time never comes and the only possible source of relief that their ego will allow is death.
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Related Links:
http://www.drugalcohol-rehab.com/denial-in-addiction.htm
http://www.egetgoing.com/drug_addiction/denial.asp
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/dyna/a/uc_sgt.htm
http://www.drug-addiction-support.org/Addiction-Denial.html
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