Don't let me outsmart you. This only teaches me to avoid responsibility, and to lose respect for you at the same time.
Are they claiming "chemically dependent persons" are unique in this regard? Sounds more like a fucking politician or corporate ceo to me...
All the things listed are things most people do at some point or another and part of being fucking human. The amount of guilt that has been installed in us for our very humanity is, on its own, criminal.
Learned helplessness, indeed. Most kids in these programs are there because they're clear (or if not clear, they can feel it and are reacting to it) on how fucked-up the world we live in is and don't see a good reason to try and conform to it. They were trying to beat the fight out of us and send us back 1984ed, not only clear on our guilt but loving and thanking the ones that had broken us.