Chemical Dependence: Understanding Addiction
Chemical Dependence: Understanding Addiction – Enjoy This Sample. Do you wonder if you have a drug addiction or suffer from substance abuse? When is “one more drink” one too many? Is yours an alcoholic family? What is the difference between substance abuse and chemical dependence (addiction)? This self-help video describes how chemical dependence starts and how the substance abuse cycle continues.
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This sound a lot more reasonable than the two rehab centers I went to where they encouraged me to find as many defects in my character as I could possibly find. The more I worked the program, the more defective I felt.?
Well-spoken. Thanks. It’s a refreshing? change to see the focus (correctly) placed in the center (Shame) vs the behaviours.
Hey, Rob.? Glad to hear you are doing better now. Mike BD
Thank you for the support and wise words. I am currently completly clean about 3 months. I agree with many of your comments, though there is most certainly an emotional void there. Hard to fill that especially having had a false emotional front for so long. Its the rollercoaster thats? hard to stay with.
Its such a devastating, commong? human attribute. You can do it, take it SLOW.
You must also find an “emotional” substitute for the drugs that give you pleasure and that feeling of control and power. Discover a talent you have, sports, art or anything you find interesting and turn to it for feelings of satisfaction and fulfillment when you need it. Do much? soul searching and discover yourself to the extent in which you can finally act towards the desctructive behavior. Remember one very important thing..You are not alone or unique in your weakness.
Oh my friend, the chains of addiction incredibly powerful. Your brain is simply doing what it was designed to do in the consumption of abused substances. The best help I can offer you is a very very gradual detox regime in which you decrease intake by 5 percent every 4 days. Doing this, you should feel? no discomfort or withdrawal symptoms.
Aye well these prescribed meds are not to be dicked about with – either abused or stopped without medical supervision.
Not an easy thing to? get off opiates, but it can be done. If you’re ever in Newtownardes tell ’em the Cuchullain’s are asking after ’em 😉
like i said i would have explained but hey no need now! No secrets here.
Ur a busy beaver! IP? trackers are indeed wonderful.
Talking of the crackhouse….. and eejits who advocate avoiding prescribed medicines. Maybe all the manic types ought to lay off the lithium they take to prevent them from killing their obnoxious whack-job? sponsors – what do you think?
Oh, and watch out for the ‘disease’ of gambling – just a ‘suggestion’ 😛
Was hooked on booze? aged 19, off it now 7 years but find myself addicted to drugs, for a few years i was truly clean and sober before taking prescribed meds then i began prescribing my own.
Clean and sober is the best way. my guilt is hard to bear.
my mate got hooked on prescibed codiene….i understand cus its like coke aint it? man….for back ache but it went tits up…..on like 20 a day just cus the come down was bad..lost? loads a weight and stuff…but yer man if i win the lotto il take you with me respect dude…..
im hooked on? booze mate i know where your coming from…….
humans are the one of the only creatures not able to produce the natural de- stressor ascorbate (vitamin-c),look up the work of dr.libby and stone or dr. cathcarth’s work with vitamin c and? addiction withdrawel.
large doses of vitamin c will cure heroin addiction…?
This video especially rang true to me on the ups and downs of having iron control of whatever it is that you should not have and then losing control and binging. The roller coaster described here was so accurate it was scary. It was good to hear it out loud and then I was able to start being easier on myself when I am not perfect and harder on myself in that? I dont get to where I need a binge in order to feel okay.
What if alcoholism is both a disease and a choice? Having a heart attack is partly a? genetic disease and partly is what I choose to eat, the exercise I get, the stress I encounter. Just saying its a disease does not absolve you of needing to treat it, right? You need to avoid things that make it worse (fatty foods for the heart attack, bars for the alcoholic), be proactive, (exercise vs. finding a positive way to deal with the stressr that leads you to want a drink)
Correct. Our behaviors are a? choice. Anyone can CHOOSE to not engage in an addictive behavior. People (and I was one of them) want to believe that they have a disease because calling it an “illness” takes the heat off of them.