Behavior is said to be self-sabotaging when it creates problems and interferes with long-standing goals. The most common self-sabotaging behaviors are procrastination, self-medication with drugs or alcohol, comfort eating, and forms of self-injury such as cutting. These acts may seem helpful in the moment, but they ultimately undermine us, especially when we engage in them repeatedly.
Self-sabotage builds and can create a deep well of self-defeat that’s hard to climb out.
So, why indeed do we do this to ourselves? Here are six big reasons.
