Help an Alcoholic 10
This is a bit like the picture at left – can you see other faces in the flowers and the disease of alcoholism? Understand the nature of the chemical alcohol, how alcohol affects the alcoholic and the non-alcoholic in different ways, and why the alcoholic continues to drink when drinking is obviously harming them. Learn …∞
Posted in Al-anon, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, Codependency, Family, Healthy, Help an Alcoholic, Men, Sobriety, Sponsorship, Treatment, Women and tagged alcoholic, brieftsf, Disease, physiological, symptoms, tolerance, withdrawal. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
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12 Step Treatment Reduces Healthcare Demand
Encouraging post-treatment self-help group involvement to reduce demand for continuing care services: two-year clinical and utilization outcomes. BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence indicates that addiction and psychiatric treatment programs that actively promote self-help group involvement can reduce their patients’ health-care costs in the first year after treatment, but such initially impressive effects may wane over time. This …∞
Posted in 12 Step Fellowships, Addictions, Alcoholism, Healthy, Men, Spirituality, Treatment and tagged in recovery, patients' health-care, psychiatric functioning, self-help group. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
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8 Reasons Women Stay in Painful Relationships
Many people in recovery from alcoholism, addiction, co-dependency and compulsive gambling may identify with these points. They may be the victim, the perpetrator or an observer. These reasons apply to heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual and transsexual people. Additionally, just because someone is in recovery does not exclude them from being difficult in relationships. Why …∞
Posted in 12 Step Fellowships, Addictions, Alcoholism, Codependency, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Men, Relationships, Sexuality, Treatment, Women, Youth and tagged abuse, asexual, heterosexual, observer, painful, perpetrator, transsexual, victim. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
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Sex Drive: How Do Men and Women Compare?
Experts say men score higher in libido, while women’s sex drive is more “fluid.” People in recovery from addiction, compulsive gambling, alcoholism or co-dependency may be unsure of what sex drive is normal or acceptable. This article may help answer some questions about libido. Birds do it, bees do it, and men do it …∞
Posted in Addictions, Alcoholism, Codependency, Gambling, Men, Recovery, Sexuality, Women and tagged libido, women's sex drive. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
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Vibrator use is OK, Improves Sexual Health
Not only is vibrator use common, but the two studies also show that vibrator use is associated with more positive sexual function and being more proactive in caring for one’s sexual health.
Posted in Emotions, Fun, Healthy, Men, Relationships, Sex Addictions, Sexuality, Women, Youth and tagged doctor, genital, gynecological, health, heterosexual, Medicine, orgasm, side effects, therapist, vibrator. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
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Neurosis, Co-dependency, Alcoholism and Recovery
Karen Horney saw neurosis as part of normal life. Specifically, she saw neurosis as an attempt to make life bearable, as a way of “interpersonal control and coping.” This is, of course, what we all strive to do on a day-to-day basis, only most of us seem to be doing alright, while the neurotic seems …∞
Posted in 12 Step Fellowships, Addictions, Codependency, Drugs, Men, Relapse, Relationships, Sexuality, Sobriety, Spirituality, Women and tagged clinical, coping, Karen Horney, neurosis, neurotic needs, normal. Use this permalink for a bookmark.
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