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. 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 […]
Through various blog on this site we have suggested that trauma and adverse childhood experiences may have an effect on the ability of the brain to regulate emotion. We have even suggested that adverse childhood experiences and trauma may actually have a direct effect on the maturation […]
This is an appendum to yesterday’s blog – Ultimately, as this study (1) alludes to, there is a vital role for amygdaloid activity in both anxiety disorders and in alcoholism. It seems, however, to be suggesting that this amygdaloid hyperactivity is mainly prevalent in withdrawal and protracted abstinence. […]
Throughout this blogsite we have argued that addictive behaviours are rooted in inherent stress/emotion dysregulation and in emotion processing deficits such as alexithymia. These emotion processing deficits give rise to undifferentiated emotion states which are not utilised in reasonable prefrontal cortex based decision making but instead prompt more motoric […]
A Brief History of Treating Addiction as an Emotional Processing Disorder A constant thread throughout our blogs so far has been an assertion that alcoholism and addiction are primarily emotional regulation and processing disorders. So we were thus very interested to find this article (1) which describes […]
The principles of the programme of Alcoholics Anonymous are scientific and closely follow all the helping therapies which lead people to emotional well-being.
This study (1) is an excellent one which looks at both emotion processing deficits and also emotional dysregulation in eating disorders. It also importantly demonstrates how these are mediated by distress. This is an important aspect to our conceptualisation of addictive behaviours. We suggest that if emotions are […]
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