What Is Addiction? Beyond Willpower and Weakness
The person sitting across from their family at Thanksgiving can’t explain why they keep drinking after promising they’d stop. They’re not confused about what alcohol...
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The person sitting across from their family at Thanksgiving can’t explain why they keep drinking after promising they’d stop. They’re not confused about what alcohol...
Read Article →He’d been thinking about getting help for almost a year before he actually called anyone. The barrier wasn’t that he didn’t know he needed it....
Read Article →She was thirteen years old the first time she took something to make the memories quieter. The thing that had happened to her she couldn’t...
Read Article →His anxiety had been with him since adolescence, a constant low hum of dread that made every social situation feel like a threat. The first...
Read Article →Her teenage daughter had started lying to her teachers about why she was late to school. The real reason was that some mornings she had...
Read Article →The first time he walked into a church basement for an AA meeting, he sat in the back with his arms crossed and was certain...
Read Article →She’d been to two inpatient programs. She’d done ninety meetings in ninety days. She’d tried everything that had ever been suggested to her, sincerely and...
Read Article →He had fourteen months sober when he used again. He’d been at a conference, alone in a hotel room, stressed about a work situation that...
Read Article →There’s a particular kind of drinking that doesn’t look like the movies. It’s not the guy stumbling home alone or the person who can’t make...
Read Article →Therapy isn't about lying on a couch talking about your mother. Understanding what really happens in treatment helps you take the first step toward feeling better.
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