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 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. 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 […]
In a recent “interview” in The Guardian newspaper Marc Lewis once again forwarded his ideas that addiction is not a disease but a condition of aberrant learning. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/24/is-addiction-really-a-disease?CMP=share_btn_fb His ideas are laid out in more detail in his book The Biology of Desire – a book I have […]
The Rat Park of Vietnam and Beyond The videos below have been doing the facebook and twitter rounds, often accompanied by this Ted talk by Johann Hari Essentially these videos suggest addiction is caused solely by environment. The idea that addiction is caused solely by […]
Suppressing traumatic memories can cause amnesia, research suggests – New study could explain why people suffering from PTSD and other psychological disorders can have difficulty forming everyday memories. The study offers new insights into the ways in which we block distressing recollections. The study offers new insights into the […]
Part 4 “Theory Underlying Compassion-Focused Therapy The neurobiological model of CFT sees key anxieties as emerging from the interaction between the life history of the person and the “tricky” nature of our evolved brains (Gilbert, 2000, 2009, 2014). Traumatic memories are tagged by the brain’s threat-based alarm system, […]
Part 3 Impaired Self-Soothing and Emotional Regulation ” Liotti and Gilbert (2011), Fonagy (1996), and many other developmentally based researchers describe how people cannot learn to emotionally regulate in the same way as they learn facts. Social encounters can soothe us when in distress, and it is through […]
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