hey there everybody and welcome back to the addiction and mental
health Disorders Treatment manual this is unit 1 part 11 enhancing
affective or emotional motivation I'm your host Dr Donnelly Snipes
in this part we're going to explore affective or emotional motivation and how to enhance it
just like the other parts that you've gone through till now you're going to spend about 50 minutes
answering the following questions how is the new Behavior whatever that new Behavior you chose
in in the previous Parts how is that new Behavior going to make you feel better emotionally how
will it help you feel happier more Curious more awestruck more content whatever happy
words you want to use how is it going to help you feel less guilty depressed anxious angry
how does the old Behavior whatever you're doing right now whatever you are planning on
changing how does that behavior make you feel bad emotionally how does it make you feel bad
um with anxiety anger depression guilt grief how did the old Behavior make you happy
there were things about it that were rewarding or you wouldn't have continued to do it now it might
not have made you you know happy in the typical sense but it may have numbed the pain for a while
how else could you achieve that besides relapse that is how could you increase your
happiness what can you do to feel happy curious content besides engaging in that old Behavior
how might recovery or the new Behavior make you unhappy especially in the short term and how can
you deal with those feelings when you start doing this and I've been talking about this in each part
change is hard and change can be uncomfortable at times there are going to be times when you know
you need to do something for the change but you really don't want to you really don't feel like
you have the energy but you gotta pick yourself up and make yourself do it so how can you deal
with those feelings when part of you says oh you know I just I really don't want to do that today
in what ways did your emotions cause addictive behaviors or emotional or physical illness
relapses in the past now remember a lot of people will engage in addictive behaviors to
numb their feelings especially the dysphoric feelings or to help them feel something if
they're just kind of flat and blah all the time they may engage in addictive behaviors in
order to feel something in order to feel a rush because they just feel numb so much of the time
emotions especially unpleasant emotions can also trigger other unpleasant emotions so if you start
feeling anxious then it may trigger anxiety issues it may trigger depression issues it may trigger
anger in you because you're frustrated that you're feeling anxious all the time
and when you're feeling dysphoric angry anxious depressed Etc it also impacts your
immune system when you are feeling stressed out your immune system is impaired so think
about how the behavior you want to change has affected your emotions and think about how this
new behavior is going to help you feel happier and more content and healthier and in less pain