Cognitive behavioral therapy is changing your negative thoughts into positive thoughts which has made a big impact in the mental health community. We would not have had this effective form of therapy without psychiatrist Aaron Beck who has made a number of accomplishments for those with depression. Because of Beck, depressed patients are more understood […]
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Our addictions can develop for many reasons. For some of us, our addictions manifested from our lack of self-love and self-acceptance. Addiction is often about trying to numb ourselves from our pain, and for many of us that pain comes from our insecurity, our lack of self-worth and our low self-esteem. Our insecurities can come
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One of the most challenging aspects of addiction is how prevalent and widespread drugs and alcohol are in our everyday culture. Current songs, TV shows, movies and video games are inundated with them. Young people are specifically targeted with intentional marketing geared towards getting them to start using and drinking at an early age, so
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When we make the important decision to get help for our addictions, it usually comes after years of fear, indecision and putting off doing what we know we need to do for ourselves. We’ve been stuck for a long time, afraid to take the first step. We’re afraid we’ll fail. We’re afraid of doing the
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An unfortunate reality for those of us in recovery is that many of us do relapse, sometimes multiple times. There are some things we can do, however, to help prevent ourselves from relapsing. Here are a few suggestions. Consider treatment as the first step in recovery, not the last step. The work continues long after
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There are many things we can do to help ourselves during the addiction recovery process, and as important as these things are, such as therapy and professional treatment, they are only as helpful as we allow them to be with our mentality, outlook and perspective. Perhaps the most important thing we can do for ourselves
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Our inner demons are the term we give the insecurities, fears, anxieties and other issues that we become fixated on, that we feel control our minds. Our inner demons can dominate our inner dialogue, to the point where it can be hard to distinguish our true inner voice from the voice of our inner demons.
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Our addictions have a lot to do with the relationship we have with our emotions, how we relate to our emotions, process them and release them. Many of us struggle with holding onto anger, sometimes for years at a time, if not our entire lives. When we have such a strong attachment to it that
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Many of us struggle with the decision to get help, and there are different reasons why we put off getting help even when we know we need to. For some of us it may be a combination of things. We can be consumed by fear. We might be in denial. We might be convinced our
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One of the things we learn in recovery is to take inventory of our character traits. The ones we feel are holding us back, that are hurting us and the people around us, are the ones we consider to be character defects. We have much to learn from these character defects, and working to improve
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