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Description
"I heard that you deliver people kinky desires?"
"What's your desire?"
"I love to be left bound and gagged in very unpleasant condition. Can you do that? "
"Send your address. Any rules to be followed?"
"I love to be on drug!"
"Any specific drug?"
"Just be limitless."
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS AND ADDICTION 101

Denial is often the addict’s first line of defense. The addicted personality will reason that because he or she hasn’t lost a job or been rushed to the ER, there must not be a problem.

Regression is the reverting to childish behavior. In the addict, this can manifest itself in refusing to get out of bed or refusing to talk with someone who’s tried pointing out their destructive behavior.

Shifting blame does a nifty job of pulling the focus away from the addiction while at the same time justifying the addiction’s reason for being. “I drink like this because I’d go crazy around here otherwise,” is an example of a shifting blame statement. A close cousin to shifting blame, projection is taking one’s own impulses and feelings and attributing them to others. Addicts have been known to project their own substance problems onto someone close to them if that person is engaged in similar behavior or was at one time.

(20-004)

Description
"I heard that you deliver people kinky desires?"
"What's your desire?"
"I love to be left bound and gagged in very unpleasant condition. Can you do that? "
"Send your address. Any rules to be followed?"
"I love to be on drug!"
"Any specific drug?"
"Just be limitless."
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DEFENSE MECHANISMS AND ADDICTION 101

Denial is often the addict’s first line of defense. The addicted personality will reason that because he or she hasn’t lost a job or been rushed to the ER, there must not be a problem.

Regression is the reverting to childish behavior. In the addict, this can manifest itself in refusing to get out of bed or refusing to talk with someone who’s tried pointing out their destructive behavior.

Shifting blame does a nifty job of pulling the focus away from the addiction while at the same time justifying the addiction’s reason for being. “I drink like this because I’d go crazy around here otherwise,” is an example of a shifting blame statement. A close cousin to shifting blame, projection is taking one’s own impulses and feelings and attributing them to others. Addicts have been known to project their own substance problems onto someone close to them if that person is engaged in similar behavior or was at one time.

(20-004)