Self Sabotage Screening
The following screening instrument was created and made available by Anne Katherine in her book When Misery IS Company – End Self Sabotage and Become Content.
Make a list of the following symptoms to which you can relate: Keep notes in your journal about each item with which you relate. That would include self-talk, images in your mind’s eye, sounds, feelings, and EXAMPLES of recent times. Your therapist or coach will be very happy to have this information – even if it is later that you get help.
1. Having a pattern of self-sabotage
2. Being avoidant
3. Losing track of the main objective
4. Injecting negatives into positive situation’s
5. Leaving or stopping a positive chain of events
6. Having a fear of well-being, happiness, or success
7. Not acting when action is required
8. Being indecisive
9. Being ambivalent
10. Longing for a certain experience but insisting that it take the form that can’t or doesn’t work
11. Insisting that the first steps towards a goal take a certain form
12. Wanting something you’ll never get if you keep doing what you’re doing
13. Feeling that your life is jinxed
14. Feeling that you’re incompetent or unworthy
15. Not changing your behavior even after it repeatedly causes problems
16. After discovering a pattern, not adjusting to deal with it
17. Acting on assumptions without checking them out first
18. Being resistant
19. Always having an excuse (why don’t you… yes, but)
20. Splitting hairs
21. Refusing helpful medication
22. Isolating
23. Resist asking for or receiving help
24. Alienating the people who can offer the most help or do the most good
25. Sacrificing
26. Being attracted to unavailable people
27. Feeling that you can never fit in or belong
28. Craving closeness but evading intimacy
29. Having multiple addictions or compulsive behaviors
30. Having a pattern of chronic relapse into other addictions or compulsive behaviors
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