Addictive Traps Self Test

Once you have fallen into, or created, an addictive trap, escape is deceptively difficult. Each individual has a different biology, personal history, and social environment; each trap is unique. The relationship you have developed with a corruptive incentive [substance or activity] is different than anyone else's. To free yourself from dependence so you can follow your path of greatest advantage you must escape your particular addictive trap.

This is a serious challenge that will test you to your limits, and it is important to husband your resources. You have a certain amount of time and cognitive resources available to you, and it is important to use them wisely. The six traps listed below are responsible for most relapses. The Trap Detector will help you assess which traps are most relevent for you so you can develop your coping tactics accordingly.

1. The PIG (The Problem of Immediate Gratification): Motivation is more sensitive to the immediacy than to the magnitude of the payoff.
2. Counter-RegulatoryMotivation: Perverse motivation may come in different flavors. One example is Reactance, which refers to the motivation to rebel against restrictions?especially when the restriction does not apply to other people.
3. The Karma of Behaving Badly: It is not so much that you pay for your sins in the after-life; you pay for them during this life. The true curse of the sinner is that the sinful behavior becomes stronger with exercise. With enough practice, the sequence of events that leads to incentive use becomes autonomous, and now requires conscious effort to interrupt. Your path of least resistance is your Karma.
4. Recursive Traps: Negative emotional states including depression, anxiety, and anger often produce outcomes that confirm the negative beliefs that gave rise to them.
5. Attachment: Some people fail because they don?t care enough to perform well, and others fail because they care too much about outcomes to perform well.
6. Dependence: According to Epictetus: If your happiness or unhappiness depends upon something you do not control, you will become its slave, and you will remain a slave as long as you wait for external salvation.

 

The Trap Detector is a simple screening test that will help you decide how to apportion the resources you are willing to invest in this project of changing your ways. There is no charge for this test, and the scoring will be performed on your computer.Please click here.

Interpreting the results

After Completing the Trap Detector, your scores will be shown on the screen. We are interested in the ranking of the traps rather than an absolute score. The traps with the highest scores are most worthy of your attention, and it is recommended that you concentrate your focus there.

Once you know which trap are most relevent to you, you can read more about them by clicking on the trap name above. These links will take you to a more detailed description of the trap and information designed to help you appreciate and solve the puzzle.

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