How do you deal with impulses?
Sometimes you just wanna do coke and set a dog on fire, it's just how it is. Can you convince yourself to stay sane and not do it? How do you cope?
A shadow not so dark.
You just do it. Whatever you don't just wasn't rewarding enough.
I spent $80 in impulsiveness in just the 48 hours Alice has been away. I'm really not good at handling impulsiveness without her voice of reason.
So you can't function without someone else guiding you?
How do you deal with impulses?
Fight fire with fire!
Reinforce impulses to oppose those impulses.
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With enough time and effort it actually can change the patterns. People have been snapping rubber bands on their wrists to remind themselves not to do things for decades, and rat experiments have had many shocked rodents learn to not follow their impulses of hunger.
For addiction, there's actually drugs they can prescribe you to oppose former impulses by bombarding you with awful symptoms. It's essentially the idea behind substances like Naltrexone.
Impulses are like reminders, and all that stops us from following them are the walls we build in it's way. Having triggered responses trigger other responses can adjust the end resulting behavior, as you can commonly see out of things like Anger Management strategies and the conditioning that follows models like "The Swear Jar".
Ę̵̚x̸͎̾i̴͚̽s̵̻͐t̷͐ͅe̷̯͠n̴̤̚t̵̻̅i̵͉̿a̴̮͊l̵͍̂ ̴̹̕D̵̤̀e̸͓͂t̵̢͂e̴͕̓c̸̗̄t̴̗̿ï̶̪v̷̲̍é̵͔
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You just do it. Whatever you don't just wasn't rewarding enough.
Just do it!
That's how you end up in jail tho.
With enough time and effort it actually can change the patterns. People have been snapping rubber bands on their wrists to remind themselves not to do things for decades, and rat experiments have had many shocked rodents learn to not follow their impulses of hunger.
For addiction, there's actually drugs they can prescribe you to oppose former impulses by bombarding you with awful symptoms. It's essentially the idea behind substances like Naltrexone.
Impulses are like reminders, and all that stops us from following them are the walls we build in it's way. Having triggered responses trigger other responses can adjust the end resulting behavior, as you can commonly see out of things like Anger Management strategies and the conditioning that follows models like "The Swear Jar".
I don't know how well those negative reinforcement tactics work in this case. Positive reinforcement for successfully fighting the undesirable impulse is a way better alternative.
A shadow not so dark.
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3/2/2020 7:20:29 PM
With enough time and effort it actually can change the patterns. People have been snapping rubber bands on their wrists to remind themselves not to do things for decades, and rat experiments have had many shocked rodents learn to not follow their impulses of hunger.
For addiction, there's actually drugs they can prescribe you to oppose former impulses by bombarding you with awful symptoms. It's essentially the idea behind substances like Naltrexone.
Impulses are like reminders, and all that stops us from following them are the walls we build in it's way. Having triggered responses trigger other responses can adjust the end resulting behavior, as you can commonly see out of things like Anger Management strategies and the conditioning that follows models like "The Swear Jar".I don't know how well those negative reinforcement tactics work in this case. Positive reinforcement for successfully fighting the undesirable impulse is a way better alternative.
Only Naltrexone is technically the negative one over how it takes away your ability to enjoy the alcohol at all. The rest introduce something instead of taking something away from the scenario.
The field uses the words more like math.
Ę̵̚x̸͎̾i̴͚̽s̵̻͐t̷͐ͅe̷̯͠n̴̤̚t̵̻̅i̵͉̿a̴̮͊l̵͍̂ ̴̹̕D̵̤̀e̸͓͂t̵̢͂e̴͕̓c̸̗̄t̴̗̿ï̶̪v̷̲̍é̵͔
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3/2/2020 8:46:20 PM