Today someone forwarded me the following quip in a funnies email.
A Skeleton walks into a bar and asks for a beer and a mop.
It got me thinking about the amounts of energy we put into pre-meditated acts of self-sabotage.
It also got me thinking how absolutely rational these behaviours appear to us before we begin to look at them from a different perspective.
Our behaviour may appear to be the only obvious thing to do, - because that's how I've always done it. – that’s how my family does it. - that's what make things feel ok. - It's what people are doing.
Look at the behaviours that leave you doing a whole lot of mopping up. It maybe, that on close inspection, the only merit of the behaviour is its painful familiarity and the pleasant distraction of mopping rather than living.
Self-defeating behaviours erode our self-esteem behind the scenes.
Self-defeating behaviours are defense mechanisms over which we repeatedly choose to trip. Self-defeating behaviours are relieved by addiction recovery programs
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