On-Line Video Gaming: A Haven for the Insecure?
For some the cyber-world may meet some critical developmental needs that we may overlook.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 7, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Personality Source Type: news
4 Keys to Lasting Addiction Recovery
“Positive recovery” aims to fill the gaps in how addiction is treated through a balanced approach that attends not only to the disease, but also to the elements that make life most worth living.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 6, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Jason Powers, M.D. Tags: Addiction Happiness Health Resilience addiction treatment positive psychology positive recovery relapse prevention Source Type: news
Living With a Liar Can Make You Crazy
The concept of psychological abuse perpetrated by presenting false information and insisting those lies are true, thereby causing the victim to doubt his or her judgment, perception, memory, and even sanity, is relatively well-accepted in contemporary society. “Gaslighting” routinely occurs in conjunction with serial sexual infidelity and various forms of addiction. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 6, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S Tags: Addiction Relationships Resilience Therapy cheating emotional intelligence infidelity lying trauma Source Type: news
Addicted to Love
Brain research suggests that early love can function like a destructive addiction, but it's benefit must be balanced against its threat.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 6, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Jessica Grogan, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Relationships Social Life Stress Source Type: news
4 Factors That Increase Suicide Risk in Addicts
An article just published in the Journal of Affective Disorders looks inside the overall increased risk of suicide with addiction to discover what it is, exactly, inside substance abuse that puts people at risk for suicide.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 6, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Richard Taite Tags: Addiction Anxiety Depression Self-Help addiction suicide cliffside malibu constance scharff richard taite substance abuse addiction substance abuse suicide sucide risk Source Type: news
How Porn Is Damaging Relationships
Porn is hurting many couples in our society. How are couples responding when solo pornography use is discovered in the relationship? In this article I discuss how consuming pornography is negatively influencing both partner's in the relationship. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 6, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Kevin B. Skinner, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Relationships Sex Therapy Source Type: news
A Mistake in Identity: When They Saw OCD
On the outside, it looked like OCD. On the inside, it was something else. Working through it has been a sweet blessing.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 6, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Laura Berger and Glen Tibaldeo Tags: Addiction Resilience Self-Help Therapy Source Type: news
Tragic Reality of Substance Abuse in South Africa
Marijuana, crystal meth, heroin, crack cocaine and methamphetamines are taking over the streets of South Africa, condemning a new generation of deprived children to a life of addiction.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 5, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Constance Scharff, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Health Politics Self-Help africa drug addiction africa drug trade africa illegal drugs cliffside malibu constance scharff richard taite south africa south africa drug south africa drug problem Source Type: news
Might Candy Now Be the Answer to Alcohol Dependence?
Sweeten up for a Holiday (for a change) read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 4, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Judith J. Wurtman, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Health Self-Help abstinence to reverse negative cultural trends australia sobriety holidays Febfast recovery from alcoholism sugar alleviating withdrawal symptoms sugar boosting serotonin synthesis Source Type: news
3 Things I Loved About the Worst Day of My Life
I realized that I have the power to own my life and my experience and make them truly mine, which freed me from victimhood and the bondage of the things I thought I needed in order to survive.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 4, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Howard C. Samuels, Psy.D. Tags: Addiction Aging Resilience death of a parent grieving the loss of a loved one quitting addiction recovery sober alcoholics sober living Source Type: news
U.S. Moderate Drinking Limits Are Completely Unrealistic
The reason that study after study finds that heavy drinkers outlive abstainers is that the U.S. definition of heavy drinking is set far too low. When a more reasonable cut off point is chosen we find that abstainers live longer than heavy drinkers as was to be expected.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 4, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Kenneth Anderson, MA Tags: Addiction alcohol heavy drinking moderate drinking Source Type: news
The Serial Enthusiast’s Guide to Stimulants
A single driving passion is not the only path to life satisfaction. Some of us travel many routes. The point is to let at least one take us places we've never known. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 4, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Creativity Happiness Spirituality compulsion direction motivation obsessio Orchid Thief passion Source Type: news
A New England Journal of Medicine Article about Marijuana
With increased availability of marijuana, more young people are likely to use and abuse this drug. Some of the medical and societal consequences associated with increased use are discussed in a recent medical review. read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - August 1, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Eugene Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Child Development Politics Psychiatry Source Type: news
Porn Comes of Age
A recent study from University of Cambridge reports that porn may trigger compulsion in the brain of a sex addict much the way drug paraphenalia triggers a drug addict.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 31, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CST, CSAT Tags: Addiction Neuroscience Sex Therapy cambridge drug drug addiction incentive motivation JAMA Psychiatry porn porn addiction sex addiction Valerie Voon ventral striatum Source Type: news
Feeling Like a Moral Failure
Responsibility running riot makes us feel like moral failures.read more (Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center)
Source: Psychology Today Addiction Center - July 31, 2014 Category: Addiction Authors: Peg O'Connor, Ph.D. Tags: Addiction Ethics and Morality Happiness Philosophy embarrassment responsibility self-trust shame Source Type: news
