Displacing the Displacement
Maintaining a habit is quite stressful, and addiction inevitably causes even more problems and more stress the person is trying to alleviate or avoid.
Displacement’s Two Faces
It’s possible that a child who overeats can be induced to try some of life’s other satisfying activities, like the ones Dr. Pretlow’s team has suggested.
Extirpate the Roots of Addiction
If the displacement mechanism accounts for overeating, then targeting this mechanism in treatment should facilitate significant reductions in overeating.
Uproot the Seeds of Addiction
Sure, eating can reduce stress in the short term, but ultimately it creates situations that produce more stress, with all kinds of negative consequences.
Avoid Planting the Seeds of Addiction
Is every use of the displacement mechanism a fake cure? Not if it saves the person from destruction, and helps them not to bring destruction to others.
Facets of Displacement
Pursuing a passion can look an awful lot like an addiction, and can certainly have the same negative effects on a practical level.
Displacement Mechanism Has Two Aspects
As previously suggested, some might have a problem with defining displacement behavior as out of context.
Displacement, a Partial Roundup
Here’s part four of the roundup of our posts on the subject of displacement behaviors, which includes comfort eating.
Displacement Thoughts With Particular Slants
Here’s part three of the roundup of our posts on the subject of displacement behaviors, which includes comfort eating.
Displacement Mechanism Posts
Here’s part two of the roundup of our posts on the subject of displacement behaviors, which includes comfort eating.