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...also shown promise in treating addiction. In one study, drug addicts reported less drug use with ACT than with a 12-step program. And ACT worked better than a nicotine patch for 67 smokers trying to quit. ACT encourages addicts to accept the urge to do drugs and the pain that will come when they stop-and then to work on figuring out what life means beyond getting high. ACT has also been used to help chronic-pain patients get back to their jobs faster. But perhaps the most noteworthy finding was that 27 institutionalized South African epileptics...
Hayes had opened the e-mail at 3 a.m., after his newborn's cries had awakened him. At 4:04, he sent a long response that said, in part, "You are asking, 'Can I live a valued life, even with my pain?' Let me ask you a different question. What if you can't have the second without the first? What if to care the way you do care, means you will hurt. But not the heavy, stinky, evaluated, categorized, and predicted hurt that has crushed you. Rather the open, clear, knife-through-butter pain that comes from a mortal...
...because they were trying to follow given rules. Those studies helped lead to an account of language called Relational Frame Theory, which suggests that when we try to solve problems verbally, we are using the same language skills and cognitive processes that can lead us back to avoidance and pain ("sunset" ... "beautiful sunset" ... "mother's funeral"). And that led to ACT's focus on reducing the impact of thoughts regardless of their content ("I'm having the thought that I'm depressed about Mom"). It took a decade of research for the term acceptance and commitment therapy to first show...
...defuse their power and make psychological room to think about what he can really do with his life. As for an abused spouse, Get Out of Your Mind says, "'Acceptance of abuse' is not what is called for. What may be called for is acceptance that you are in pain ... and acceptance of the fear that will come from taking the necessary steps to stop the abuse." Acceptance, it turns out, can mean a lot of change...
There was no explanation on the door, which still listed the store’s usual hours. “It was kind of a pain,” he said...