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Do Not Distract Yourself From Grief With Substances

Allow grief to be felt rather than drowning it out with substances, delusion, or other distractions. Adaptive grieving involves facing the loss directly instead of avoiding it.

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“You're not trying to avoid thinking about it, you're not engaging in this counter-factual thinking, the what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if. What if you're not drowning it out with substances or delusion or with other ways of distracting yourself?”

huberman · The Science & Process of Healing From Grief · May 30, 2022 · 1:03:06 · open ↗

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