Archives for December, 2016
Our Top Seven Addiction Recovery Posts Of 2016
Therapy Soup's top 7 addiction recovery posts of 2016:
12 Steps for 15 Maladies
Flawed Belief System Keeps Him Using Drugs & Alcohol
Seven Insights You Can Use In Recovery From Mental Illness & Addiction
Addiction Study Might Lead To New Treatment Options
The Real Reason People Begin To Use Drugs, Drink (And What You Can Do About It)
In Addiction As In Life, Honesty Is...
Hanukkah Recovery Insights–8 Nights Of Light & Healing
Hanukkah is the beloved festival of light. We celebrate by lighting candles or olive oil lamps, and through prayer, song, playing special games and eating delicious foods.
The Hanukkah story, and especially the menorah lights, are particularly relevant to those in recovery from mental illness or addiction. Hanukkah in essence, can be described as the triumph of spiritual light and lasting truth over darkness, emptiness, and falsehood.
8 Nights of Recovery Insights by the Light of the Menorah
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The Hanukkah story, and especially the menorah lights, are particularly relevant to those in recovery from mental illness or addiction. Hanukkah in essence, can be described as the triumph of spiritual light and lasting truth over darkness, emptiness, and falsehood.
8 Nights of Recovery Insights by the Light of the Menorah
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Flawed Belief System Keeps Him Using Drugs & Alcohol
What you believe—about life, about people, about yourself—is key to how your recovery from addiction progresses. A flawed belief system helps keep you mired in the past or prevents you from envisioning, or believing in, your future.
Recently I met with Kyle. He had been using opioids, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol to self-medicate for more than twenty years. He began using when he was 16, and he's now 36. Although he's actively using substances, and...
Recently I met with Kyle. He had been using opioids, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol to self-medicate for more than twenty years. He began using when he was 16, and he's now 36. Although he's actively using substances, and...
12-Steps For 15 Maladies
In the original 1938 Alcoholics Anonymous book*, 15 emotional/spiritual symptoms (referred to as maladies) of addiction are listed:
being restless, irritable, and discontented
having trouble with personal relationships
not being able to control our emotional natures
being prey to (or suffering from) misery and depression
not being able to make a living (or a happy and successful life)
having feelings of uselessness
being full of fear
unhappiness
inability to be of real help to other people
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being restless, irritable, and discontented
having trouble with personal relationships
not being able to control our emotional natures
being prey to (or suffering from) misery and depression
not being able to make a living (or a happy and successful life)
having feelings of uselessness
being full of fear
unhappiness
inability to be of real help to other people
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