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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Medication of oneself without professional supervision to treat an illness or condition, as by using an over-the-counter drug or preparation.
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- noun Medication of oneself without
professional advice in order to treat a real or imagined condition.
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Examples
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Indeed, talking points on both the right and left wings continue to argue that the post-Lehman, AIG implosion crisis that led to TARP, with global markets shutting down and more sirens and flashing lights than at Fukushima, was not really a meltdown, but just a few days of pain that would have cleared itself up through either self-medication (from the right) or nationalization (from the left).
Robert Teitelman: Tett on TARP and the Apocalypse Robert Teitelman 2011
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And into counseling or group therapy before her adventures in self-medication ended in razor blades and blood again.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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It is always a coping mechanism of sorts, self-medication to deal with stress, and a means of giving oneself a sense of control over oneself, especially because one cannot control one's environment and life events.
Edison Peña's marathon of endurance Matt Seaton 2010
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Indeed, talking points on both the right and left wings continue to argue that the post-Lehman, AIG implosion crisis that led to TARP, with global markets shutting down and more sirens and flashing lights than at Fukushima, was not really a meltdown, but just a few days of pain that would have cleared itself up through either self-medication (from the right) or nationalization (from the left).
Robert Teitelman: Tett on TARP and the Apocalypse Robert Teitelman 2011
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And into counseling or group therapy before her adventures in self-medication ended in razor blades and blood again.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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In The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs, Dr. Julie Holland, a psychatrist and emergency physician, explains that the hiding and lying of illegal and prohibited drug use leads to a pervasive feeling of shame, and that shame creates more of the intensely negative feelings and emotional states that lead to self-medication as a means of escape.
Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction Charles Shaw 2011
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In The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs, Dr. Julie Holland, a psychatrist and emergency physician, explains that the hiding and lying of illegal and prohibited drug use leads to a pervasive feeling of shame, and that shame creates more of the intensely negative feelings and emotional states that lead to self-medication as a means of escape.
Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction Charles Shaw 2011
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In time, efforts at self-medication may become a problem greater than the original one, as your direction in life becomes cloudier.
Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011
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In The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs, Dr. Julie Holland, a psychatrist and emergency physician, explains that the hiding and lying of illegal and prohibited drug use leads to a pervasive feeling of shame, and that shame creates more of the intensely negative feelings and emotional states that lead to self-medication as a means of escape.
Charles Shaw: Chasing Amy: Prohibition & the Infantilization Of Addiction Charles Shaw 2011
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And into counseling or group therapy before her adventures in self-medication ended in razor blades and blood again.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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