Are You a Masker or Controller?
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When you are distressed how do you manage your discomfort? Do you try to control your time, activities and the environment around you so that you feel in charge? Or do you mask those awful sensations by numbing yourself with sex, food, medications, and alcohol?
Either way you try to rid yourself of these unpleasant feelings. If you try to kill them off by getting busy, trying to be orderly and working all hours, it is likely that your body will express your distress for you and or you may develop irrational fears and phobias. If you numb yourself with sex, tv, drugs, alcohol, meds, food or sleep, you are a masker, and these “addictions” loose their effectiveness quickly, making you seek more and more of them until it interferes with your daily life.
Coming to therapy can identify your coping patterns, and help you build emotional muscles so that you can better manage the distress when it hits you.
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