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Continue reading →: Don’t Keep Taking The Medicine!
“The addiction piece, I have to say, is a huge part of my life. Not just my own, but that of many people I love. The helplessness around that, and learning to deal with that, and all the various 12-step programs I’ve been a part of over the years, and…
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Continue reading →: The Heavenly Gifts of Alcoholism?
“The victim of a malodorous disease which renders him abhorrent to society and periodically degrades him is also the master of a superhuman art which everybody has to respect and which the normal man finds he needs.” Ransacked souls all who drank like fish and wrote like fallen angels.…
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Continue reading →: Porn Addiction
This entertaining ASAPScience video explains how porn addiction effects our brains and how it changes the way we perceive sex, leading to the same brain activity associated with alcoholism and drug addiction. Porn: it’s the number one topic for internet searches, but do we ever consider how pornography can have…
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Continue reading →: Is Mad Men about Don Draper’s Denial or Society’s?
Following on from yesterday’s Infographic on Don Draper’s gradual descent into alcoholism in the the superb series Mad Men we now look at how alcoholism and addiction has been portrayed in this series. From http://score.addicaid.com/mad-mens-depiction-of-alcoholism/ “It’s no secret that Don Draper, Mad Men’s chief protagonist struggles with alcoholism. In fact,…
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Continue reading →: The Family Tree of Alcoholism
From http://newrelevant.com/alcohol-and-the-family-tree/
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Continue reading →: It Gets A lot Less Glamorous!
From http://score.addicaid.com/drunk-like-don-draper/ There’s no doubt that Don Draper likes a drink every now and again…and again…and again. The battle with alcoholism is the character’s main overarching problem. Alcoholism is often a sign of other underlying issues, but it’s hard to do a lot of growth when you’re self-medicating by booze or drugs. It’s certainly gotten him into…
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Continue reading →: Reading Our Emotions Makes Us More Emotionally Literate
PIN your emotions Emotional dependency is the result of being emotionally undifferentiated. The more differentiated we are, the less reactive we are to others and the better we can soothe ourselves. We have discussed previously in various blogs how this lack of emotion differentiation leads to impulsive responding. In simple…
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Continue reading →: How do you know when Medicating becomes Self Medicating?
A recent blog in the After the Party Magazine has raised some very pertinent questions about the issue of co-morbidity in alcoholics and addicts seeking recovery via 12 step groups and suggests the extent of this co-morbidity is much higher than may have been anticipated. This blog raises important issues but…
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Continue reading →: In a nutshell
Following on from Monday’s blog a visual representation of what I was trying to say. Love and tolerance of others is our code. the Big Book, page 84. And we have ceased fighting anything or anyone.
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