Today is the fifth day of the April Blogging Challenge. Today I have chosen the word Enabler. Now to some of you this word won't be real significant. To those of us who are greatly affected by this addiction, oh trust me you won't know how messed up life can get until you get caught up in this web.
Some of you who have been reading here for awhile might remember reading my post, Things I Learned From My Addict: The Tangled Web of the Enabler.
Remember when I had to make that moral inventory of, WHO AM I? while standing on Step Number Five? No, It's okay! I don't live there anymore.
Providing the Money and the Means- Giving out money is only one way we enable our addict. Also caught in the tangled web are other ways of enabling the addict. Maybe you have lots of money. Good for you. Now, stop handing it over to your addict. This is
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We blame ourselves and question everything. Was it our parenting? Was I a bad mother? Was it that time when he was two and I smacked him on his butt for not listening? How did this happen? Was it my fault? Why us? How did we end up in this mess? Why God?
Control- We become obsessed with controlling our addict. Do you have to know where your addict is every minute of every day? Do you have to know everything about your addict just in case there is something you can fix? Do you have to be in charge of everything? If I control him, then I can fix him, right? Wrong. We can never control the addict or this addiction. We can never control heroin. We are powerless over heroin and what this drug does to our addict and to ourselves.
Now, it is okay to set boundaries. Trust me in their active addiction there most definitely needs to be boundaries. I had a few. The main one was that he was not to come around me or to my house if he was high or using that day. You know I hate this so please don't disrespect me or my house. Even in recovery you set
This book really opened up my eyes to the world of addiction. I really like the examples that they book gives us. The book understands that it is difficult for most people and family members to understand that addiction is a disease. It could because addicts and alcoholics have done some pretty bad things, because addict’s behaviors can be intolerable and living with one can bring a family member to brink of insanity. It is easy for a person to think that someone can just give up using drugs and alcohol, but I have learn...
It is not uncommon to view drug addiction as a problem that is created and maintained by the drug addicts. Most of
Sally Satel, author of “Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate? Wrong,” leads us down a harrowing path of the causes and effects that lead people to addiction. It can be a choice, possibly subconscious, or a condition that leads a person left fighting a lifelong battle they did not intend to sign up for. Mental and emotional health/conditions, personality traits, attitudes, values, behaviors, choices, and perceived rewards are just a few of the supposed causes of becoming an addict.
In the book, Addiction & Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions, May explores how addiction develops and can be treated from a psychological, physiological, and spiritual standpoint. This theme is clearly shown throughout the text as it shows addiction from a whole person's perspective. The book covers the development of addiction from desire through the experience of addiction. The key focus is on looking at the matter of addiction from multiple stand points then broken down by explaining how addiction is an issue psychologically, physiologically, and spiritually. By focusing on these three areas, the author is able to present the reader with a clear understanding of addiction from all sides of the problem.
This experience helped me to recognize the internal struggle that a substance abuser faces on a continuous basis. In addition, I know that an individual can have a difficult time changing their behavior even when they have a strong desire to change; the smallest thing can cause a person to relapse.
According to President Barak Obama there are over 20 million Americans who struggle with substance abuse. (OBAMA, B. 2014). Although addiction is rampant in the United States there are intervention programs available for those who are seeking out recovery. Researchers explain that addiction is a
Drug addiction is more complicated than medicine thought in previous years. It’s not because someone is weak or unable to control themselves. They are chemical such a dopamine in the human body that makes the process difficult. The brain works in a neuropath way and drug interrupt the normal process which stops the frontal lobe to work as it should. Treatment isn’t done right and patients tend to repeat their habit after they get out of rehab. Psychological treatment is not as effective as chemical injection for dopamine to reward the brain. However, even after the treatment is complete, it will be a life struggle to stay away from drugs since the brain will always look for a simpler way to reward itself.
The word addiction is being thrown around all the time by family, friends, and even all across social media. Whenever people hear the word addiction more than likely their mind will immediately shoot to a negative conclusion. It is not often to hear the word addiction and think of it to be in a positive way. Addiction is defined as “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma” (“Addiction”). Although even this formal definition of the word makes it sound poor, addiction can be used in a good way too. The word can be used to describe someone's good habits or hobbies. For example, people’s addictions
So, it is clear that addiction is all around us and can attack anyone of us at any given time. Even studies conducted show that people neglect to speak around their dependency for two primary reasons. Foremost, because people do not comprehend, or they bear a total misconception to their addiction, that they do not realize that addictions can be critical to their overall wellness. Moreover, second, many people believe being an addict will never happen to them, but, in reality, most addictions start off as simple little habits. Such as starting with one drink after dinner and before you know it you are drinking several drinks a day. However, one does not opt to be addicted to a substance, because addictions are physical defects in the brain, a disease, and not one’s choice.
There is nothing about addiction that is easy or clear, and although every family's experience is unique, I know some of what you are going through at this time. The thing that makes addiction so difficult is that the cure is not one that a prescription can be written or a counseling session can fix or a parent can love out of them. The cure is totally dependent upon the addict. That is the frustrating and painful part of this illness and those of us who love our addict so much, and we cannot force them to get the help we so obviously see —they need—it has to be up to them.
For those struggling with an addiction, the first step towards recovery is the most challenging step.
Do repressed memories real exist? Is it possible that one’s memory can be repressed unconsciousness for decades of years after a traumatic experience and then later recovered accurately with no forgetfulness and with perfect consciousness?
Addiction has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, from my earliest memories of my father, until now as I am a licensed professional in the field of addiction as well as a person in long term recovery myself.
For many years, people have suffered many devastations about addiction. It has become a common killer in the United States just like murder. Addiction has affected over 23 million people from the age 12 and older. These addictions are wide ranging, they can include alcohol, drugs, sex, video games, food, pornography, and gambling. People like to keep quite because they view this disease as morally wrong. Addicts sometimes shut out their family member because they are afraid of the reaction if anyone knew their problem. The Nation Institute of Drug Abuse states Addiction is as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences.Today in 2016 addiction is spreading across
Drug addiction is a very big problem in today’s society. Many people have had their lives ruined due to drug addiction. The people that use the drugs don’t even realize that they have an addiction. They continue to use the drug not even realizing that their whole world is crashing down around them. Drug addicts normally lose their family and friends due to drug addiction.