Hi, thanks for stopping by and welcome. This is Josh.

I'm Dr. Ponce, New York. Welcome and I'm glad to see you all.

I'm trying to think of announcements well as always Monday through Fridays you can join

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donation is warmly received as it's what keeps me able to do this. So I thank you for your support. And tonight we're talking

about the stress tolerance. So without further ado, there was a fascinating study by addiction psychologist Marcel Bon Miller who studied individuals with substance dependence.

And he was interested in determining why certain people succeed in achieving

meaningful lengths of abstinence while others very quickly relapse?

And the answer was different degrees of distress tolerance

was the significant or salient factor in determining which people would maintain

sobriety and which ones would become overwhelmed by withdrawal symptoms and

relapse. 63% would relapse within days of quitting,

whereas those who could self-sooth during the periods of discomfort, only 32% would relapse.

So that's a huge difference.

Anyone has worked in any degree of therapeutic support for people addressing

reliances on multiple substances.

Now that the greater one's ability

to withstand the discomfort of distress the greater our eventual well-being and the likelihood of growth.

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