Sexual Attraction – Addiction or Intimacy?
When you have sex too early in a relationship, it might not be emotionally or physically satisfying.
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A New Definition Of Drug And Alcohol Addiction And Treatment – Substance Abuse Has No Societal Boundaries
An addict is not considered an addict just because he drinks and drugs too much, nor because his life spirals downwards because of drugs. These are just predictable symptoms of the progressive disease. Perhaps if we had a new definition for addiction, it would not be so difficult to accept that individuals may be suffering [...]
Why Addiction Counseling is Necessary
No one would use drug and alcohol treatment facilities if it was that easy to quit using drugs and alcohol and to beat an addiction. Unfortunately, drugs and alcohol cause both a physical addiction and a mental addiction. That means addiction counseling is required to help addicts overcome the problems and this counseling requires a [...]
Cocaine Addiction – Overcoming the Powder
Cocaine is a powerful stimulant with highly addictive properties that effect the brain directly. Cocaine is usually found in a white, crystalline powder, known as coke, blow, snow and other street names. When purchased on the street you are usually getting a substance that has been diluted with other powders such as cornstarch, talcum powder, [...]
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Dealing With Addiction in the Family
Addiction can be defined as a family disease. It is a fact that the entire family suffers with the addict. This is the reason that professionals consider treatment of the family to be the part of the whole treatment of addiction. First, it is important to understand that the tendency to become addicted is genetically [...]
Dealing With Addiction
I have personal experience of addiction and its effects, and felt it’d be useful to share them with the community. If folks are made responsive to the creeping, insidious nature of all styles of addiction, then steps will be taken early, preventing the illness that’s addiction from becoming chronic. I will be trying at three [...]
Help With Drug Addiction – How to Recover Without Rehab
Unfortunately, most counselors, specialists, psychologists, and recovery groups still believe that addiction is not only a disease, but it is also incurable! Well, as an addiction recovery coach, I have proven both of those hypothetical presumptions to be dead wrong! Disease is defined as an affliction that can be pathologically diagnosed. To date, there [...]
Addiction Overcoming
Sexual Attraction – Addiction or Intimacy?
Megan asked the following questions in one of our phone sessions: “Over and over, when I’m really attracted to a man and I sleep with him fairly early in the relationship, I discover that he is not good husband material. What am I doing wrong? Am I just attracted to the wrong kind of men?” [...]
The Difference Between Habit and Addiction
Copyright 2006 Cole’s Poetic License President Bush said we are addicted to oil. Most smokers say they are addicted to nicotine. I thought I was. Some, in attempting to quit, chew nicotine gum or apply nicotine patches. Neither work in more than fifteen per cent of cases because nicotine is not addicting. Heroin is. Until [...]
How to Deal with gambling Addiction
They say the first step to beating an addiction is to admit that you have a problem. Dealing with someone who has a gambling addiction can be painful. They have a tendency to withdraw from family and loved ones, so what are you supposed to do when someone you care about has developed a gambling [...]
Self Esteem And Addiction
Self esteem is something I believe that we would all like to have but when you have some powerful addiction one of the first things you lose is your self esteem. None of us like to think we are addicted to something and are adamant that we are in complete control, only doing what we [...]
