Families and Drug Rehab
So you’ve come to the truth about your drug addiction. It is out of control and you can’t deny it for one more minute. You hurt inside and out, you don’t want to keep going like this, and you know there is just one solution – drug rehab. You’ve made the committment to go now, . . . . Continue Reading
Differences Between Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction
Not everyone who uses drugs and alcohol becomes addicted. Some people can get away with casual use with few consequences, and others ride the thin line between “some trouble” and “big trouble”. How do you know if you are abusing drugs or truly addicted? Drug and Alcohol Problems Depend on Control and Level of Problems . . . . Continue Reading
Addiction Makes Families Pay a High Price
Many people understand that a person with an addiction really puts their life at risk. They could die of an overdose, drive drunk or high, get arrested for a bar fight, wreck their internal organs, and ruin their finances. But what is the long-term fallout for children and their other parent? Addiction really does a number . . . . Continue Reading
Addiction and Shame
It’s a catch 22 – you already feel so sad and lonely, and you don’t want to screw up by getting drunk again. But your emotions are too strong for you to manage alone, so you drink your sorrows away. When it’s over, you still have your loneliness and sadness. On top of that, you have shame . . . . Continue Reading
How To Help a Woman With Addiction Get Into Drug Rehab
It’s so hard to watch a woman you love take her life into a downward spiral. You know you don’t control her choices about doing drugs, but how can she not see? How can she not know that she needs to go to drug rehab and get off those damn drugs?? Well, she may or . . . . Continue Reading
Self Medicating With Drug Addiction Wrecks All Your Emotions
The sexual abuse was horrifying, and you’ll do anything you have to so those flashbacks don’t come back. The whiskey and marijuana are the only two things that give you relief. But when you cut off one emotion by self-medicating, you sacrifice others as well. At this point, you don’t care about the other stuff . . . . Continue Reading
Starting Drug Rehab is the Hardest Part
Tom Petty had it wrong – waiting isn’t the hardest part, it’s starting. You know you should go to drug rehab, but you just can’t get yourself going. It’s not the right time, or it will be too hard, or something. So why don’t you get started? Fear Stops People From Starting Drug Rehab Fear . . . . Continue Reading
Perfectionism and Drug Addiction
You’re not a perfectionist, right? In fact, you often believe you are lousy at so many things, can’t keep your life together with your drug addiction, everything around you is out of control. That can’t be perfectionism, can it? Addiction Keeps Perfectionism In Disguise When you think of perfectionism, you might picture a woman obsessed . . . . Continue Reading
Women Practice Healthy Coping Skills in Drug Rehab
Every woman on the planet has coping skills for everyday life. Does this mean all coping skills are healthy choices? No! Many women use coping skills that may seem to work for the short term but actually harm them in the long run. This is especially true of women with addiction. Drug rehab is an . . . . Continue Reading
Women With Depression and Alcoholism
The alcohol looks the same, smells the same, and goes down the same for alcoholic women and men. However, alcohol does things differently inside women’s and men’s bodies. And depression is said to be the “common cold” of mental illnesses – not as mild as a cold, but certainly common. It’s quite likely that a . . . . Continue Reading