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Continue reading →: Translating Accurate Diagnosis into Effective Treatment – Part 1 – Addiction Recovery Blog – addictionland.com
Translating Accurate Diagnosis into Effective Treatment – Part 1 – Addiction Recovery Blog – addictionland.com.
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Continue reading →: By Way Of Introduction – Addiction Recovery Blog – addictionland.com
Originally posted on Inside The Alcoholic Brain: ? Check out my First blog on Addictionland!! 🙂 By Way Of Introduction – Addiction Recovery Blog – addictionland.com.
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Continue reading →: Is the Addicts’ “Hole in the Soul” caused by Insecure Attachment?Addiction is the consequence of insecure attachment to our caregivers in early childhood and that as the result addicts often learn to consume substances, or behave in certain “rewarding” ways such as gambling, hypersexual activity etc to cope with emotional distress.
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Continue reading →: Addiction Cartoon
This is an excellent animation/cartoon of what makes us addicts and also what recovery is and how it is achieved – explained in the most simple way possible. Recommended.
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Continue reading →: When the Nuggets Lose their Lustre!
Good little animation, although the animation misses the bit about lying and cheating family and friends, the general degradation of the kiwi’s being etc and the frenzied attempts to do any thing to get the next glow, however increasingly dim that glow has become. In recovery we need to watch…
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Continue reading →: Eating Disorders based on a Body “Feeling State” Confusion?
Here we look at emotion processing deficits in eating disorders and whether the extent of these difficulties can predict treatment outcome three years later. This would demonstrate the ongoing role of emotion processing, as conceptualised as alexithymia, plays an ongoing role in the pathomechanism driving eating disorders. This article also…
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Continue reading →: “Eating our Words!?” – Emotion-Processing Deficits in Eating Disorders
In eating disorder patients, an impairment of emotional processing is clinically supposed. As quoted by Bruch (1985), anorexic patients not only show impaired differentiation between hunger and satiety, but they can hardly differentiate their physical sensations from their intimate emotions, which they often cannot describe. Bulimic patients often respond to stress with a bulimic crisis…
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Continue reading →: Addiction – A Parasite that feeds off your Emotions?Rresearchers found that simply thinking about alcohol create a very similar brain frequency in the brain as actually drinking but that this brain frequency is also seen when we are having negative emotions about ourselves (as alcoholics).
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