Thinking about Denial & Chronic Pain Management
Yesterday as I was flying to Tampa I started working on my latest book, the Denial Management Counseling Recovery Guide. As I was looking over what I accomplished in six hours that the flight took I decided I wanted to add a portion of it to my Blog today. I have worked for years to de-pathologize denial while at the same time help people living with chronic pain see that sometimes their denial about ineffective pain management including prescription medication or other drug problems were hurting them. Denial is part of the human condition and it can help us or hurt us.
Denial is related to our need to search for the truth about what is happening to us in spite of our tendency to make mistakes. Whether we like to admit it or not, we all can be easily hurt when we make mistakes. When we do make mistakes, our fear of being hurt creates the tendency to lie to ourselves in order to avoid pain, guilt, and shame. We are all capable of convincing ourselves that the lies that we tell ourselves are, in fact, true. Once we start believing our own lies, we tend to start lying to others whether we mean to or not.
Denial is a normal and natural response
to experiencing serious life problems.
Even though most people try to be honest, we all having the human tendency to make mistakes. Once we make a mistake, the fear of experiencing pain, guilt, and shame creates a tendency to lie to ourselves and others about the mistakes.
This can lead to the habitual use of denial to avoid experiencing the pain, guilt, and shame. This means that denial is the natural tendency to avoid the pain, guilt, and shame that is caused by thinking and talking about serious problems. Denial is a set of automatic and unconscious thoughts, feelings, and actions that keep us from thinking and talking about our problems in order to avoid pain, guilt, and shame.
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