Why Enabling?
A primary enabler is someone whose well-established pattern of enabling permits the alcoholic or addict to continue drinking or drug use.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Alcoholic Defenses
Even if such arguments have stymied you for decades, it’s quite possible, with a little coaching, to deal with them effectively in future.
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Can I Keep My Patients From Giving Up?
My outpatients get discouraged very easily. They may actually be doing pretty well for somebody new to recovery, but they don’t seem to realize it.
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Intervention with a professional present?
So the professional’s real value to an intervention is as a guide. One who can offer something the family really does need: a degree of informed objectivity.
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Can We Make Patient Education Work?
Use examples. It’s hard for someone with alcoholism to grasp the idea that he or she can’t go back to drinking at some future point – after a year of abstinence, for instance. But the old saw that a pickle can’t go back to being a cucumber – that people seem to understand.
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