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And I'm Ashland and I was the portrayed.

And I'm Kobe, the recovering addict.

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All right, so let's talk about

Addictions best buddy.

And you know, this addiction can't exist without this and so it's very

important so what we're going to talk about today is denial and why denial is essential for addiction to thrive and do well and we'll

break down different forms of denial it's It's really helpful to understand what it is because once

you see it, once you know it, then you can start catching yourself in it. Oh man, that's the truth.

Yeah, and it's also not very fun to do that but that's also the truth. Yeah.

So first let's talk about what it is okay define it a little bit. So let me ask you guys what what's your understanding of what denial is.

That's a fair question. I don't know if I could give you like a clinical definition as much as I could give you like real life experience to like an example.

Yeah what it looked like.

I don't I think maybe actually you're probably best suited to answer that question

as it relates to me how did you see denial show up for me?

One way was he would, when he was choosing to go to 12 step

before we found specialized therapy, it was, he'd home and say like, man, I'm really not that bad.

Like, they have, these guys are so much like into it and I'm just not there and so I feel pretty good. I'm not that bad. Yeah, there's guys that are way worse than me. Right. So I so there's two forms of denial there. This is my job all day, picking out the denial. So what you were

doing is you were minimizing your problem and another thing you were doing is you were

comparing. So you're making your problem out to be not as bad as it is and then you were using like a pawn you were using other people to say well look at that guy

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