S M A R T Recovery Blog Psychology Today article: Overcome Addictions and Procrastination Simultaneously

An article in Psychology Today illustrates commonalities between procrastination and addiction. In the process the article gives a very high-level introduction to some of the SMART tools.Excerpt from Psychology Today:Why would smart people abuse themselves by uncontrolled consumption of alcohol or illicit substances? Do they not see the harm? The answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no. Some see the danger and fall prey to the "unstated agenda trap" where they say they want to quit, but only if there is no hassle. Others con themselves into believing that they can drink or use and get high without a downside. A subgroup think they will stay miserable whatever they do: drinking or using takes away the curse of living, but may also be the curse. Some just want to get high. Filtering reality through a prism of addiction reasoning is like looking at the world from inside a murky bottle and believing what you see is real. However, you are stuck in the bottle only if you act like you believe you can do nothing to change. Is it possible for you to test the waters to get past your personal barriers to abstinence? Can you educate yourself about your addiction? Can you identify and work free from addiction prism thinking? Continue to full article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/science-and-sensibility/201004/overcome-addictions-and-procrastination-simultaneously