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 […]
Addiction 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. Chapter 11 In early recovery, it is like you have two selves fighting it out. I went to my first […]
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. 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 […]
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 […]
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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