In general, it’s better to put time and effort into sobriety than to try to do the bare minimum. If you’ve struggled to quit drinking, you should consider support groups, counseling or rehab. Self-help books or apps are less likely to help you successfully quit if you are addicted to...
and 12-step facilitation. This workbook walks clients through self-reflective activities and exercises meant to help them recognize the underlying motivations and causes of their gambling addiction and to learn the tools necessary for recovery. The Third Edition of this workbook includes coverage of al...
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The carpet is faded, posters for self-help groups are hanging in their frames; half drunk cups of coffee and uneaten biscuits are lying around. Everything feels fusty, dusty and remote. But I am staring at a beautiful young woman with brown eyes and black hair. She is maybe 28, or ...
Somehow I didn’t will this deletarious situation on myself. Something in the past had happened to me to help cause it. Although that only partly explained things? There must be more to this than I realised. I related to the not being able to stay off the drink even when I tried ...
Self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, individual counseling with a therapist, and visits with health professionals often are needed. * detoxification (de-tox-i-fi-KAY-shun) is the process of breaking dependence on an addictive substance. * delirium tremens are also called "the DTs" or ...
The second factor spurring addiction is aggression. As the addict awakens to the cost of his behavior, it begins to take on a different tinge – it becomes about anger. As one of my clients, a recovered alcoholic, told me – when you’re doing something so obviously self-destructive, ther...
The first pastor of thePlymouth ChurchinBrooklyn, New York, Beecher shared his sister’s commitment to social causes; in particular, to abolition. But at the same time he turned a gift for tempering self-improvement advice with dialect and humor into a fabulously-successful career on the lectur...
It is only sometime later that I consider the consequence. I ache with knowledge of it, for I long to help others, to serve, and I know Icannotwith this constant dwelling on myself as “the Depressed Person,” the one that I have become. ...
I have had a few bouts w/ alcoholism myself. I've found the following to be helpful: L-glutamine (an amino acid) [already mentioned], Kudzu (an herb), grapes or grape juice, B complex vitamins [already mentioned], & magnesium - use as directed by what the supplement bottle(s) says...