Addictive behaviour starts as a maladaptive coping strategy to deal with self dysregulation. Addiction Is Not A Weakness of Self Will But Rather a Dysfunction of Self Regulation Addictive Behaviour is a chronic condition whereby you have to take the medicine in order to begin to know what […]
This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction, Trauma and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. First Day Sober! One day I woke up but didn’t go downstairs. I had a very odd experience while lying in […]
This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol – that our lives had become unmanageable” , Addiction Chapter 6 Aftermath Emma was bowled […]
This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Trauma Chapter 3 Colonization “…the process of settling and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area….appropriating a place for one’s […]
This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Trauma Chapter 2 Anyway, my mother’s dependency on Valium didn’t help much with my initial attachment to her, having a mother who […]
This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Addiction Chapter 4 When all else fails My first AA meeting was on Christmas Eve, 2005 in a local Church Hall. Emma […]
This is part of a series called “The Bottled Scream” A Disease of Self – Understanding Addiction and Recovery. To go back to the introduction click here. Addiction Chapter 3 The First Step Admitted we were powerless over alcohol, that our lives had become unmanageable So the doctor proclaimed […]
I was delighted to be asked and honored to take part in one of the excellent “The Hope Interviews” with Steve Jones for the recovery newspaper “Keys to Recovey”
Although loss of control over drinking is central to anecdotal accounts of alcoholics’ impaired ability to control their drinking once they have started or to stay stopped from drinking for intended periods of time as this excellent review suggests “Impaired control, defined as “a breakdown of an […]
Alcoholism, not alcoholwasm I am moved to write this blog and to continue writing about Alcoholism in general due to a newspaper article I read in the last few months by the writer, Tanya Gold, a recovering alcoholic with 15 years recovery. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tanyagold I was inspired […]
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