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 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. Trauma Chapter 1 My Sobering Story My name is Seamas (James on my birth certificate) and I am an alcoholic! I am […]
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 have spent over ten years researching the Neuroscience of Addiction. I have become a published Academic author and former PhD candidate in the process. God willing, I will be sober and in recovery 15 years this December. I now believe that Addiction, for the majority of addicted […]
In other words not being able to fully process and regulate emotion leads a stress dysregulation which can threaten recovery and lead to relapse.
Part 1 Two of the the main reasons we remain in recovery are via a trust in God and via a dramatic improvement in our ability to process and manage our emotions. We often share our negative emotions with our sponsors which often leads to resolving emotional issues […]
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 […]
Originally posted on Inside The Alcoholic Brain:
In this blog we re-emphasize the need for accurate diagnosis of co-morbidity with a substance use disorder. It appears form the article cited here (1) that diagnosis is often flawed in many studies and that the so-called diagnosis of co-morbidity is…
Special notice to say that is me for now – I am taking time out. Six years of constant research has left me tired and in need of a change in my life. I am leaving behind a library of info on my blogs which I will maintain long […]
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