Tag: mental-health
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It Feels Like My Recovery Program Isn’t Working
Has anyone ever felt like your recovery program isn’t working all that good? Like, you know it’s helping a lot, and you are following the instructions: you go to your meetings, follow the steps, meet with your sponsor or coach or whomever, but you still feel the pull. You are sober, you can stay sober…
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The Alcoholic Allergy Explained
I don’t know if any of you have experienced this, but the first thing about my Alcoholism that boggled my mind in early recovery was that I could recover, get my health back, get my life going good again, and then I would test the waters and drank like a Normy (just a couple), and…
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The Great Obsession
More than intrusive thoughts. Many define the obsession of an addict as the persistent, intrusive thoughts or urges related to the use of drugs, alcohol, or other addictive behaviors. This definition was not useful to me at all. I found my practical explanation to this mysterious phenomenon by happenstance when I was talking with this…
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The Truth about Cravings
Nobody craves their drug of choice. Back when I was stuck in the loop of addiction treatments (7 rounds), there was all this talk about Cravings. Cravings this, cravings that: track them, what are your triggers, ways to manage them, let’s try CBT, DBT … All can probably agree, Cravings are a big deal. I…
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