Sentences with phrase «reducing unpleasant feelings»

Against these maladaptive strategies aimed at deflecting or reducing unpleasant feelings, adaptive coping strategies are deployed when one accepts both the facts and the accompanying emotions, and then tries to act on the basis of both.

The study also suggested that these physiological changes and accompanying increases in anxiety indicate a state like withdrawal seen for many «sedative» drugs, such as alcohol, cannabis, and heroin, and this state may be responsible for some people's need to re-engage with their digital devices to reduce these unpleasant feelings.

Not exact matches

In late 2014, for example, a group at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel reported in The Journal of Neuroscience that smokers conditioned during sleep to associate the smell of cigarettes with a profoundly unpleasant feeling reduced their consumption of cigarettes more than those conditioned to the same behavior when awake.

The relatively low number of Indigenous staff in some services, especially in large urban areas, adds to Indigenous insecurities in using mainstream services; (vi) Legacies of history and unpleasant previous experiences with mainstream services can reduce Indigenous use of facilities; (vii) Some mainstream services are delivered in ways that make Indigenous people feel uncomfortable, that is, services are not culturally appropriate or culturally secure; and (viii) There may be poor links between complementary services, for example between training institutions and employment facilities, or between primary health providers and hospitals or ancillary health services.

Someone may have started drinking for a variety of reasons, for instance to feel good and have fun, to relieve anxiety in social situations, to reduce depression or to otherwise cope with a difficult situation or unpleasant mood state.

This may look like someone using sex or love to reduce stressful experiences in his / her life, or to avoid unpleasant feelings (loneliness, anxiety, and depression).