No, Recovery Isn’t Easy
The reality is, there are significant barriers to overcome. One of the more common ones is that pesky internal debate over whether or not one is really, truly, addicted.
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Some Good Advice
This woman’s in trouble. And on some level, I expect she knows it. But hasn’t yet mustered the courage to deal with it.
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Sober Living
Their presence sometimes go unnoticed because it’s the problem children that wind up in the media, the result of an incident or neighborhood complaints.
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Bad Timing
And the principle on which his transition plan would have been based is adaptability to the unforeseen.
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Recovery Quarantine
We just expected people to get well faster, only because they were no longer bombarding their brains with chemicals.
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First Person: Scared Silly
The question is, when you have all those years of apparently successful recovery, why throw it aside? How could that improve your situation?
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Do Supplements Help?
“The patient will probably go ahead and take them anyway,” a nurse practitioner told me. “Because some friend swore by the stuff.”
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Decision Making in Early Recovery
Suddenly we’re missing obvious warning signs, ignoring key markers of danger, or simply deciding to take a leap of faith at exactly the wrong moment.
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Emotional Sobriety
I must take responsibility for the ways I acted and the things I did. Then, I must ask if there is anything I can do to make these mistakes right.
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Unplugging From the Chaos
Now we carry 24 hour access to crap in our pockets, via the phone. And rather than a couple irritating broadcasters, we have access to millions.
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How to Forget
Suppose we could develop cognitive techniques and train the patient to use them whenever symptoms reappeared?
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What to do After Treatment
There will be times where you catch yourself lying either in your head or to somebody– fix it, there is major growth there when you do.
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Relaxing in Recovery
There’s not much point in pretending that all those years of dousing the brain with toxins hasn’t left its mark.
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