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Alcoholism Symptoms - Never Ignore Them
Alcoholism is one of the biggest evils present in the today's world. People generally lose their consciousness when they consume excess of alcohol. It is very easy to differentiate between a normal person and a drunk person.
Graham Timson
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8 Styles of Thinking You Must Be Aware of If Addictive Behavior is Hurting Your Life
Throughout the course of our lives we develop certain habitual styles of thinking that serve as defenses or distortions of reality, feeding into craving and urges and aiding in the cycle of relapse of addictive behavior. Defenses and distortions of thought are often unconscious ways of trying to protect ourselves from a painful reality that we don't want to face. In this article we go over 8 styles of thinking that keep us entrenched in our addictive behavior and introduce how the practice...
Elisha Goldstein
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12 Step Quotes and Sayings XIII
"If you don't like what you hear at a meeting, then say what you need to hear." At a question and answer meeting I attend, I often hear questions and comments from people who either don't enjoy meetings, or who don't think that particular meeting gives them what they need. "It's always the same people saying the same things," I hear them say.
Michael Z
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Addiction - Why We Don't Overcome
Counselors and former strugglers testify of the power to break the cycle of addiction. Why do so many continue in their destructive pattern and never overcome? This article explores the things we tell ourselves and the things we believe that keep us from confronting our addictions.
Bob Perdue
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12 Step Quotes and Sayings XII
"There are only two times when you should go to a meeting - when you feel like going, and when you don't feel like going." It's hard living with a disease that tells me I don't have it. When I'm in between meetings and life is busy, it's easy for me to think of going to a meeting as an imposition.
Michael Z
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Is Willpower Necessary to Overcome an Addiction?
Overcoming nicotine, alcohol, drugs, overeating or any other destructive behaviour should be a simple matter of willpower. I am willing to do everything in my power to give up my addiction. But the harder I try, the less I seem to achieve my goal, and I realise that willpower doesn't work. There must be another way.
Isabella Kratz
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Stop Drinking Now - Self-Test For Breath Alcohol
Drinking Alcohol is a serious health issue and affects almost everyone in one way or another, so this article will help guide you towards a guaranteed method of quitting this forsaken addiction. If you feel that this subject may affect you or somebody you know, then please read on with an open mind as you could be one step away from changing your or somebody else's life.
Eddie Philips
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My Experience In A Detox
Why did you end up in a detox? About six months prior to my visit in detox I had been sober for a couple of months. At that time I relapsed and went on the six month run leading up to my detox stay.
Joshua Thatcher
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Alcoholism In Both Men And Women Can Result In Infertility
Alcoholism can create many unfortunate occurrences in someone's life and many times it can be quite devastating, to say the least. A person battling with alcohol dependency has the potential of suffering from different health ailments that occur from alcoholism and it can even result in being the cause to some men and women's infertility problems.
Dennis Bassey
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Gambling Problem Stressing You Out Or is Stress Making Your Gambling Addiction Worse?
Stress and gambling addiction are linked and stress may make a gambling problem worse, but on the other hand, the problems caused by out of control gambling can also cause stress. It is a little like the old saying, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
Wil Langford
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