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 2 It was only when my wife withdrew from me after she had exhausted all possibilities to try and help me—taking me […]
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 Rock Bottom My alcoholism almost killed me. I had spent the last nine months in alcoholic psychosis, the so-called DTs […]
Introduction Getting To the Root of All Our Troubles I was born into trauma and know no different. Trauma, with a helping of genetic disposition, gave birth to addiction and alcoholism which it then used to try and kill me. It led be to a place that I […]
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 […]
Below is my feature article for Keys to Recovery Newspaper. This article address how 12 step recovery treats the emotional disorder which underpins the “spiritual malady” that drives alcoholism. Read online here http://www.keystorecoverynewspaper.com/digital/090118/#page=12 Or below “My alcoholism almost killed me. It was only when my wife […]
The many benefits, especially in early recovery, of simply listening without interrupting to someone getting something “off their chest” .
Addiction As a Brain Disorder of Emotion Regulation Fourth and Final Part Alexithymia as Stress Dysregulation In this section, we further focus on the specific neural mechanism implicated in alexithymic emotion processing and how it prompts a more maladaptive motor-expressive responding to emotion experience in decision […]
Alcoholism is a family disease. This podcast address how other family members can come to have an awareness about the condition of alcoholism and that there is more to stopping drinking than stopping drinking.
Addiction as a Brain Disorder of Emotion Regulation Part 3 Neural networks of emotion processing deficits – Alexithymia and addictive Behaviour Neural Correlates of Alexithymia Neuroimaging data show higher degrees of alexithymia are associated with altered structure/function in emotion-related brain regions including the insula, ACC, vmPFC, and […]
Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Podcast – Unmanageability In this short podcast, my wife and I informally discuss what we mean by “unmanageability” and how in recovery this seems linked to alexithymia and pathological wanting and how this needs to be managed in recovery.
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