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Continue reading →: Well that’s the First Session Done!?
Just had my first session of therapy for my Complex-PTSD (C-PTSD) two days ago. Still a bit tired. It is good to have gotten the process going. But it may take some time. I was hoping the therapist would say we should get this done in 20 sessions but it…
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Continue reading →: “My Name Is Paul. I’m A Recovering Alcoholic”
For all my US friends and friends from around the world who did not have access to UK television here is the link to “I’m An Alcoholic: My Name Is…” documentary on alcoholism which aired last night on Channel 5. Well worth checking out. It was like a “collective” experience…
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Continue reading →: Getting Past Your Past
For those of you who read this blog, you will know I start EMDR treatment this week for my Complex PTSD. In order to follow my progress it may be useful to know a bit more about what I am letting myself in for therapeutically. Below I simply use…
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Continue reading →: Simplifying the Complex?
Well I have booked my first two EMDR counselling sessions for next week and the week after. I also spoke with my counsellor who seemed a lovely, capable person. We needed to differentiate in our conversation about suffering from PTSD and Complex PTSD. I suffer from C-PTSD although I…
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Continue reading →: Here’s to 2016! But First, 2015 In Review
We had three times as many views this year as it 2014!! 2015 was a funny old year for this blogsite. I decided to change the personality of this blogsite from academic to more personal, from explaining the condition of addiction to personally describing how recovery has been and is…
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Continue reading →: Merry Christmas Everyone!
Hi everyone and thanks for reading my blogs this year. We were getting deep into trauma and co-dependency and then life took over. I ended up on television and then I found out that my anonymous self will be having paper published in an academic journal in January 2016 (the first…
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Continue reading →: My Name Is…And I’m An Alcoholic
My Name Is… And I’m An Alcoholic 1 × 60mins for C5, TX January 13th 2016, 10pm In a country awash with booze, 8 million Britons are considered alcohol dependent – and all of us know someone whose affection for the bottle is damaging to their health, their friends…
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Continue reading →: Acceptance is Always the Key!
Glad to see other people have the same markings on their Big Book too! I have the same fluorescent yellow marker pen scrolls and deep pen lines across the page and under the words. I was so desperate not to let a word go by, and to understand everything the…
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Continue reading →: It Works, If You Work It!?
One of this blog’s original purposes was to inform newcomers to recovery, and their loved ones, what to expect in mainly (but not exclusively) 12 step recovery groups, with the hope that this might help in taking the first crucial step towards recovery. Not only recovery from alcoholism, addiction…
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Continue reading →: The Voice of Unreason
That Self Assassin! Here we are again at the start of a new week. I run a business and things have become a bit hectic and busy so I have had less time to write. It is stressing and I have to say, at times, distressing as much of the…
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