Dealing With Grief: How How To Ease The Pain
Dealing With Grief: What Can You Do Dealing with grief didn’t come easy for me. When my 39-year old sister died, I couldn’t function. I couldn’t quit crying let alone make it off the couch to cook dinner for my family. I thought I’d never find normal again. Yet life moves on, and I had […]
Why Conduct Disorder Is A Serious Problem
From Medical News Today Conduct disorder is a common and highly impairing psychiatric disorder that usually emerges in childhood or adolescence. It is characterized by severe antisocial and aggressive behavior, including physical aggression, theft, property damage and violation of others’ rights. Much greater awareness, improved diagnosis and enhanced treatment are all required in order to […]
6 Reasons Recovery Fails
Recovery fails, but not because of the addicts. But don’t call people with Substance or Alcohol Use Disorders addicts. After twenty years of seeing millions of families devastated by the ravages of addiction and experiencing real transformation and recovery in my own family, I know what works and what doesn’t. What we’re doing as families, […]
Warning Signs of Sex Addiction
Do you know the warning signs of a sex addiction? There is a distinct difference between a healthy interest in sex and a sex addiction. Take this quiz to see if you are at risk. Warning Signs of Sexual Addiction? Have you ever thought you needed help for your sexual thinking or behavior? That you’d […]
Addictive Substances Trick The Brain –
The brain can experience pleasure from all sorts of things we like to do in life; eat a piece of cake, have a sexual encounter, play a video game. The way the brain signals pleasure is through the release of a neurotransmitter (a chemical messenger) called dopamine into the nucleus accumbens, the brains pleasure center. […]
Addiction Is Similar To Other Chronic Diseases
Addiction research has clarified the definition of addiction which is now called substance use disorder SUD and considered a chronic brain disease. Over the last 30 years research has brought new understanding about how substances hijack and negatively impact brain function. This new information about the way the brain is affected, can now replace outdated […]