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Continue reading →: Two Selves
Addiction This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction, Trauma and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Chapter 11 In early recovery, it is like you have two selves fighting it out. I went to my first meeting a…
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Continue reading →: Chapter 9 The First Step Is The HardestThis is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable” , Addiction Aftermath Emma was bowled over by the…
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Chapter 8 Don’t They Know Who I Am?
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Continue reading →: Chapter 8 Don’t They Know Who I Am?This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Addiction & Treatment I didn’t like the people in the treatment centre much. Well the first people I had met there anyway. I…
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Continue reading →: Chapter 7 – A Chemical ColonisationThis is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Trauma Colonization “…the process of settling and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area….appropriating a place for one’s own use. “…
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Continue reading →: Chapter 6 – Fear Without SolutionThis is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Trauma My mother’s dependency on Valium didn’t help much. As I explained eralier, she had been prescribed Valium soon after I was born…
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Continue reading →: Chapter 5 – My Sobering StoryThis is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Trauma – My Sobering Story My name is Seamas (James on my birth certificate) and I am an alcoholic. I am also recovering…
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Chapter 4 – When All Else Fails
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Continue reading →: Chapter 4 – When All Else FailsThis is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Addiction When all else fails My first AA meeting was on Christmas Eve, 2005 in a local Church Hall. Emma accompanied me there.…
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Continue reading →: Chapter 3 – The First StepThis is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Addiction Chapter 3 The First Step Admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable So the doctor proclaimed me…
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Continue reading →: Chapter 2 – “Things Can Only Get Better”This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Addiction Chapter 2 Things can Ony get Better It was only when my wife withdrew from me after she had exhausted all possibilities to try…
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