C. Scott McMillin | Recovery SI

A Simple Plan: Recovery With Co-Occurring Disorders

One key to success is learning recovery skills for both addictive disease and mental illness, and applying them together.

Short animated vignettes from the Life Renaissance Center treatment program.

Posted by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 9, 2011 | Families | 0 |

A primary enabler is someone whose well-established pattern of enabling permits the alcoholic or addict to continue drinking or drug use.

Even if such arguments have stymied you for decades, it’s quite possible, with a little coaching, to deal with them effectively in future.

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.