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Undoubtedly, your acting-out behavior has impacted others adversely—perhaps quite a few others.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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Write: Take time to write about your acting-out behavior.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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For many, acting-out behavior is very typical after an abusive episode—excessive drinking, promiscuity, viewing pornography, abusing prescriptions, overeating, or whatever it takes to numb the stinging pain of humiliation and rejection.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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Because the acting-out behavior causes its own set of problems, you need to be as rigorously honest about it as you are about your abuse.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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They are prone to depression and to acting-out behaviors, including overeating, overspending, alcoholism, promiscuity, and many others.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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Because the acting-out behavior causes its own set of problems, you need to be as rigorously honest about it as you are about your abuse.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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Undoubtedly, your acting-out behavior has impacted others adversely—perhaps quite a few others.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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Evil does not need to be 'understood' as the acting-out of some two-year old's sometimes harmful self-centeredness, and it is not curable with a time-out.
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Write: Take time to write about your acting-out behavior.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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They are prone to depression and to acting-out behaviors, including overeating, overspending, alcoholism, promiscuity, and many others.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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