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Continue reading →: Intolerance of Uncertainty
Like many recovering alcoholics I know I have a real problem with “Not projecting into the future” but staying in the moment or even the day. Why is this? When I “project” or even consider a near future event I can feel distressed by it. I want to do something…
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Continue reading →: Do you have Emotional Regulation Difficulties!?
Emotions have always troubled me! I have always found them frightening, always had difficulties labeling and controlling them. I have always seemed to put in an extra effort to keep them in check. I have recently read a very good chapter from a book (1) which looks at emotional regulation…
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Continue reading →: Euphoria Re-experienced not Recalled?
I never, never want to drink again, I would rather kill myself. This does not mean I will not drink again however. A possible relapse is thus not down to desire for a drink, it is because something in my brain and in my heart goes awry. I remember being…
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Continue reading →: So what is emotional dysregulation then?
Emotion dysregulation may occur if emotions are experienced as intense and overwhelming, when individuals have not learned how or when to apply effective strategies, when strategies are not applied flexibly, when the strategies fail, or when strategies are overused, emotion regulation patterns may interfere with the ability to successfully achieve…
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Continue reading →: How do resentments become the Number one Offender!?
Research suggests (1) suggest individuals with poorly regulated emotions often turn to alcohol to escape from or down-regulate their emotions, creating a risk for diagnosable problems in relation to alcohol difficulties as this impairment in emotion regulation is associated with alcohol-related disorders and substance-related disorders (2). Experiential avoidance of thoughts,…
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Continue reading →: Is there an emotional processing problem in alcoholics?
As there is very few studies looking at emotional processing deficits in alcoholics and addicts we have had to search around the subject to make so progress on this subject. I know personally that when I first came into recovery a number of years ago I did not have a…
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Continue reading →: So how is your decision making?
In this blog we will look at something which we believe is apparent in alcoholics, the decision making difficulties very present in active alcoholism and to a lesser extent in recovery. By this we mean there is a tendency to use the short term fix over more long term considerations,…
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Continue reading →: How Research Helped Saved My Life!
One Christmas, I nearly relapsed. I did not wish to relapse, in fact I would rather put a gun to my head and blow my brains out! Nonetheless, I was indeed about to relapse. It seemed urgently inevitable. The emotional distress I had suffered all over Christmas, prompted by sad unresolved feelings…
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Continue reading →: The Distress at the Heart of Addiction and Alcoholism
This blog is written for alcoholics and those who love and live with them, by alcoholics in recovery. For those who know what it is like to live with alcoholism but would also like to know why alcoholism affects the alcoholic and those around him in the way it does.…
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