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Continue reading →: Off on Holiday – Back Soon!!
No wi fi or PC for a week!!!! I can feel the withdrawal symptoms kicking in already. Fresh air and silence….!!? Back the 26th August – have a good look around in my absence!! 🙂 I am going here with my wife and two dogs 🙂
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Continue reading →: Why a spiritual solution?
Originally posted on The Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism: In the first in a series of blogs we discuss the topic of why does the solution to one’s alcoholism and addiction require a spiritual recovery. This is a much asked question within academic research, although the health benefits of meditation are…
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Continue reading →: Are Alcoholics Emotionally Immature?It is not enough to call the alcoholic emotional immature or stuck in the “terrible twos”, although let’s face it the evidence for it is compelling at times!! Let’s instead understand the reasons for it.
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Continue reading →: Processing Emotions by verbalising them!?
The Therapeutic Benefits of “Sharing” In early recovery I did not have a clue what emotions I was experiencing. I was not able to identify, label or process them. As a result of his failure to process emotions I seemed to be constantly distressed and and, as we seen in…
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12 steps, a pathomechanism of alcoholism, a program of action, abstinence, behavioural change via recovery, Distress based impulsivity, emotional distress, Emotional Dysregulation, Executive dysfunctions, how it works, How recovery can help research, How Research Can Help Recovery, impulse control, negative urgency, Recovery, what recovers in recovery?
AA helps to reduce Impulsivity
Continue reading →: AA helps to reduce ImpulsivityOne constant in studies on addiction and in alcoholism, in particular is the fundamental role played by impulsivity in these disorders. It is seen to be present in early use but appears to be more distress based (i.e. more negative urgency based) as the addiction cycle becomes more chronic.…
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Continue reading →: Measuring the “Psychic” Change
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 of Alcoholics Anonymous clearly states this need “The…
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Continue reading →: What makes some children of alcoholics vulnerable, and some resilient?
I come from a family of four siblings, two of whom are alcoholic and two who are not. I have often wondered why this is the case? Why is it the case that certain children of alcoholic parents will grow up to become alcoholics and why some will not? What…
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Continue reading →: Understanding Emotional Processing Deficits in Addiction – Guest Blog
Understanding Emotional Processing Deficits in Addiction by alcoholicsguide We recently blogged on how alcoholics, and children of alcoholics, have difficulty with recognizing and differentiating external signs of emotions such as facial emotional expressions, now we will consider increasing evidence that alcoholics have difficulties with identifying and differentiating internal emotional states also.…
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a pathomechanism of alcoholism, abusive childhoods, adolescent drinking, alcoholism, alexithymia, Children Of Alcoholics, Distress based impulsivity, early onset of drinking, emotional processing, Emotional Processing Deficits, Executive dysfunctions, impulse control, negative urgency, the aetiology of addiction, vulnerability, Vulnerabilty to alcoholism, Were we always like this!?
Do alcoholics drive through life with Faulty Brakes!
Continue reading →: Do alcoholics drive through life with Faulty Brakes!There has been a lot of debate in the last thirty – forty years about genetic inheritance – with at least half of children of alcoholic families at risk for later alcoholism. What is less known is what exactly is inherited in our genes? What marks us out for later alcoholism? Prior…
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