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Continue reading →: Dry Drunk Syndrome
Alcoholics Anonymous refers to the alcoholic who has stopped drinking, but who still demonstrates alcoholic attitudes and behaviors, as a “dry drunk.” Such individuals are said to have sobriety but not recovery. We will explore the dry drunk syndrome in more detail in later blogs. The dry drunk syndrome highlights to…
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Continue reading →: Gambling Disorder and Emotional Dysfunction
Following on from our recent blog on emotional dysfunction in sexual addiction we continue our series which explores the inherent role of emotional dysfunction in all addictive disorders. We will explore eating disorders later. Here we use excerpts from a very interesting article (1) on Deficits in emotion regulation associated…
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Continue reading →: Different addictive behaviours all centre on the same inherent difficulties.
by alcoholicsguide Commonalities across all addictive disorders. There are those, and some in treatment centres, who maintain that addiction is addiction is addiction. I have not always been convinced by this, mainly because I see differences in temperament and personality among different types of addicts (i.e alcoholics often appear…
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Continue reading →: Measuring the “Psychic” Change
Originally posted on The Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism: Prolonged Abstinence and Changes in Alcoholic Personality? When I came into AA I remember hearing the words “the need for a psychic change” which was the product of a spiritual awakening (as the result of doing the 12 steps). The big Book…
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Continue reading →: Getting out of “self” via Prayer and meditation
Originally posted on The Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism: When I first came into recovery I constantly heard the refrain about “getting out of self” – in fact steps 10-12 help one do so. Step 12, by helping others in recovery and step 11 which encourages prayer and mediation. Can we…
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Continue reading →: Maintaining emotional sobriety (and sanity) via Steps 10-12
Originally posted on The Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism: When I have did my steps 4-7, noting the situations, the people, the institutions that have caused persistent resentments in me, then examining what parts of my self have been affected, I also, thanks to one sponsor was asked me to, put…
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Continue reading →: Processing the Past via the action steps, 4-12!
Originally posted on The Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism: Processing the Past via the actions steps, 4-12! by alcoholicsguide How The Alcoholics Anonymous’ program of action helps with emotional dysregulation. When I first came into recovery I was surprised how much more time I spent embroiled in thinking about past incidents…
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Continue reading →: Do emotional processing problems run in the family?
Throughout our blogs so far we have looked at who the vulnerability to later alcoholism is transmitted genetic via family members. The task for science is answering the question – “What exactly is inherited in this vulnerability?” Again via various blogs we have looked at certain vulnerabilities that we believe contribute…
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