How can recovering behavioral addicts reduce the risks in their environment?

How can recovering behavioral addicts reduce the risks in their environment?

Marc Kern (Addiction Expert, Director of Addiction Alternatives) gives expert video advice on: What is "outpatient care" for behavioral addiction?; What is outpatient treatment like for behavioral addiction?; How can recovering behavioral addicts reduce the risks in their environment? and more...

Just knowing that there are risks out there. It isn't only your behavioral addiction that you need to be worried about. The behavioral addiction doesn't happen without some sort of trigger, or stimulus, especially in the cognitive behavioral sort of conceptualization. So, knowing about them, and learning to relate to these stimuli in a different way. Let's say it's your spouse that makes you think about going gambling or looking at pornography. Part of your task, and part of the treatment, really is learning how to, I'll call it dance with your spouse in a different way, and I don't mean dance like the cha cha cha. I mean dancing like how do you talk, how do you communicate, how do you solve problems, how do you not solve problems? How do you deal with problems with the children? How to you deal with problems of money? How do you deal with problems of sex? All these things need to be renegotiated and reworked for a couple. I'm using this as the example, for you to minimize the dangers that truly do exist in your outpatient or in your real life environment.