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Love is the Drug!
Science as we have shown in many blogs has given us unprecedented insight into brain mechanisms implicated in addiction. It has shown us how various neural networks governing reward/motivation, memory,...
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Insecure attachment affects emotion regulation in alcoholics?
I have blogged recently about how insecure attachment is linked to various addictive behaviours. What is important is to establish a mechanism by which insecure attachment contributes to later...
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Interpersonal Factors in Relapse – Part 1
“Living life on life’s terms” essentially means living with others. The majority of relapses I have witnessed have been due to interpersonal factors, e.g. arguments at home with family and loved ones,...
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The Rejection Issues at the Heart of Addiction?
Guest Blog from “Inside the alcoholic brain” Role of Early Maladaptive Schemas on Addiction Potential in Youth by alcoholicsguide The aim of this study (1) was to predict the “Addiction Potential” in...
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Childhood Maltreatment and later Alcoholism/Addiction
One old timer I know often says two things that I often take issue with – 1. there are as many alcoholisms as alcoholics and that 2. we all come to AA in different boats but end up in the same dock....
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The Fanatic in the Attic
When I first came into recovery the thing that really killed me was realising that my thinking was haywire – that I was generally wrong about everything. My ego was devastated by this newly apparent...
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Helping Others Helps Us.
In AA they say people who engage in service, i.e. helping out at meetings, sharing, making the tea and coffee, sponsoring others, helping on A A telephone helplines, inter group etc have a much...
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The Roots of All Our Troubles!?
Most of my distress and emotional pain in recovery comes from wanting stuff, and not getting my way or not accepting things as they are. As Bill Wilson noted, we seem to get distressed when we don’t...
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