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There are many variables to maintaining a successful recovery. Such variables exist to provide you the treatments and therapies that meet your individual needs, so you have the best opportunity for a lasting recovery. Among the many tools you will gain in your journey, one of the most important is seeking a counselor. The relationship…

Maintaining recovery requires a great deal of persistence, consistency, and vigilance. However, because recovery involves a lot of work, you might become your own worst critic when deciding the successes or failures of your recovery. It might be easy to overlook how recovery moves at different paces based on the individual. Instead of moving too…

Maintaining a healthy family dynamic where everyone works together, takes on responsibilities, and accomplishes life goals is challenging. If you live with someone struggling with addiction, it can add many difficulties to the relationship’s dynamic. Over time, addiction creates barriers between you and your loved one where you begin to harbor feelings of disappointment, resentment,…

12-step programs have been around for many years and help people manage sobriety. Throughout the years, since the inception of AA, there have been many advances in the field of addiction recovery. Today, more evidence-based treatments exist to help individuals become sober and stay sober. Some of these include specific therapies such as motivational interviewing,…

When an individual uses substances over a long period to the point of addiction, the impacts extend beyond them to their family. The effects that addiction can have on relationships soon diminish the trust and communication within families. In addition to being troubled by addiction, the family may also struggle with their emotional difficulties. Continued…

Many people use the terms compulsion and addiction interchangeably to describe either their or another person’s behavior, however, they are not the same thing. The interchangeable use of these terms also causes confusion with those seeking treatment for specific conditions. Both compulsion and addictive tendencies can have a significant impact on your mental and physical…

After years of substance use and addiction, you might feel emotionally numb. Whether this happens consciously or unconsciously, addiction tends to cause people to turn off their emotions. Sometimes this response occurs due to past trauma, anxiety, fear, stress, or other responsibilities. When you use substances to cope and suppress feelings, you might think that…

Addiction is an issue that has been around for decades. But since the arrival of COVID-19, substance abuse rates have soared in the U.S., with 13 percent of Americans reporting an increase in drug or alcohol use. This surge has been linked to the stress, fear and uncertainty of the pandemic and shows no signs…

Reaching out for help for a mental health or substance use disorder (SUD) can be intimidating because it often means that you are admitting to something that you’d probably rather not talk about. Furthermore, opening yourself up to being vulnerable can be just as challenging. As such, it’s important to know that the friends and…