Bipolar disorder is a potentially debilitating mental condition that can torture the mind. It’s common for people with bipolar disorder turn to drugs and alcohol to help numb the pain. Most people who go this route learn that drugs only temporarily mask the agony and can even cause more problems. People need to tackle the […]
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When someone suffers from addiction, everyone around them suffers as well, especially the ones that care about them the most. In the heat of things, it can be easy to spew out hurtful remarks or take drastic measures as an attempt to make sense of the situation or just out of mere frustration. However, in
When someone has just completed residential treatment for alcoholism, they leave knowing the quality of their life depends on them maintaining the recovery they worked so hard to establish. That means doing everything possible to stay away from alcohol and drinking situations. Temptations and triggers are the enemies of someone in recovery. Most people in
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An international non-profit organization that works to help people conquer addiction is SMART Recovery. The SMART acronym stands for Self-Management and Recovery Training. This organization’s approach is secular and based on science. It utilizes non-confrontational methods of motivation as well as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Alternative Method This organization’s method is an alternative to other twelve-step
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The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a few new challenges into how people manage their addictions. For people who have established their sobriety, it is common to be dealing with new potential triggers as fear and anxiety levels begin to rise. You might have also recently realized that you might need help dealing with an addiction
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Entrance into and completion of a rehab program demonstrates one’s desire to change their life for the better. That said, graduating from rehab is only the beginning of the battle. A return to civilian life often necessitates the recovering addict to make numerous difficult but necessary decisions geared towards helping said individuals maintain a straight
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The steps of recovery are well-known to the recovery community, but to people just getting into treatment, they can seem a little daunting. Most step-based treatment programs layout 12 steps to recovery, but there are newer programs that may have more or fewer steps. Whatever kind of step-based recovery you’re in, you’ll find that those
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Halfway houses are sober living communities that allow residents a greater degree of freedom than they had in detox. They perform regular drug testing on residents, provide counseling services, and generally maintain a calm, recovery type atmosphere that gives you access to community resources while you’re in your first year or two of recovery. How
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Going back to school is a desire of many recovering individuals. Perhaps you never completed high school or college due to active addiction. Maybe you are hearing another calling now that you have gone through addiction and are in recovery. You may want to further your education to start a stable career that will financially
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the world’s largest research institution, 1 in 10 veterans are struggling with a substance use disorder. And for many of these veterans, drug or alcohol addiction is further compounded by a co-occurring disorder, particularly PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). In a separate study published by the U.S. Department
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