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Avoidance: How to Stop Procrastination and Worry
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
Emotional Avoidance
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A common form of emotional avoidance is where we avoid one kind of emotional experience by replacing it with another. The most common example of this, generally has to do with anger. People shield themselves from more vulnerable emotions, particularly sadness, by displaying a lot of anger. And maybe another form of this kind of substitution avoidance could be binging on different kinds of substances or experiences in order to avoid painful emotions. That's always the money question imprenl eology. What's the function? You know, follow the money. Follow the reward. Follow the payoff.
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