Don’t Medicate Christmas
Don’t Medicate With Alcohol and Drugs This Holiday Season!
Daniel G. Amen, MD, CEO, Amen Clinics, Inc.
www.amenclinics.com
Guess what the busiest month is in mental health treatment nationwide – January! Wonder why? For many, the holidays include a visit from “the ghost of Christmas past” who brings a tray full of unpleasant memories and unrealized expectations.
Sometimes we [...]
Dismantling the Addiction Cycle
Dismantling the Addiction Cycle
Identify Triggers
Set Boundaries
Desire – You can have all the knowledge, skills and resources you need to get started , but if you don’t have desire, it ain’t happening.
Discipline – You have to discipline yourself to follow through. Yes, it’s hard, it’s painful. Yes, it takes you out of your comfort zone, but [...]
Sex Addiction
Greetings all – from wintery Waikato, New Zealand,
A few brief notes on Sexual Addiction.
Sexual addiction is more about masking stress and shame than about sex. A form of self-medication for the pain in one’s life. In the words of James Brown: “I feel good…”
Masturbation on a repeated basis, with or without porn, is a common form of sex [...]
Addictions – ‘Think and Do’ Differently
Greetings everyone,
Been reading up more on Addictions:
Bondage doesn’t respond to common sense, logic, and clear thinking.
Alcoholics Anonymous calls such actions “insanity”, which they define as “continuing to do the same thing and expecting different results”.
- on page 27, “Freedom From Addiction”, by Neil Anderson (with M+J Quarles), Regal Books, 1996. [Read reviews at Amazon.com]
As Mike [...]
