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Inner Dialogues of Addiction, Treatment and Recovery IV » June 11th 2007
In our last entry we looked at how our addictive inner dialogs with specific absent others become repetitive such that the dynamic of our inner conversations themselves keep us trapped in our addictions. Underlying this dynamic is a closed feedback loop. It is this closed loop that keeps the...
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Inner Dialogues of Addiction, Treatment and Recovery III » June 4th 2007
Recalling that addiction is clinically defined as repeating negative behaviors despite the consequences or the risks involved and recalling also our initial categorization of our inner listeners as Absent Others we now look at addictive dialogs from within this framework. Addictive...
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Inner Dialogs of Addiction, Rehabilitation and Recovery » May 25th 2007
According to the American Society of Addiction Medicine the clinical definition of addiction includes:
"a primary, chronic, neurobiologic disease, with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. It is characterized by...
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Relapse Danger Signs » May 22nd 2007
The term relapse means from the Latin relabi to slide back, from re- + labi to slide 1 : the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding2 : a recurrence of symptoms of a disease after a period of improvement
Like recovery relapse is a process that begins before actual...
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Readiness To Change Questionnaire-Alcoholism » May 21st 2007
From the National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Readiness To Change Questionnaire
The following questionnaire is designed to identify how you personally feel about your drinking right now. Please think about your current situation and drinking habits, even if you have given up drinking...
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