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To me, addiction is layered, complex, and difficult to understand. Those layers and difficulties provide obstacles to treating those afflicted with the disease. Plus, in looking at family and friends within the addict’s circle, the challenges grow exponentially. However, in… Continue Reading →
Trees have been used to describe families for as long as there’s been families and trees. Just last night, someone, after asking how people at a function were related, took a deep breath and said, “Family trees can be so… Continue Reading →
While I know that there are few situations in life that are either on or off, that knowledge doesn’t prevent me from wishing there was a big magic switch with which we could change a person’s behavior by flipping it. … Continue Reading →
There’s these yellow flowers that populate large swaths of land and turn vacant fields into carpets of yellow. I run past no less than three (3) of these yellow fields within a short two (2) mile stretch. But, though their… Continue Reading →
For me, addiction is a multi-layered disease in accordance with the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s definition, “Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological,… Continue Reading →
The best villain in the comic book world, to me, is Two Face. He was once a kind and heroic District Attorney, but after being doused with acid on half of his face, he turned into one of the most… Continue Reading →
Perhaps, as someone shared with me, my approach to addiction/depression may work in “mild” cases, but probably wouldn’t work in more severe cases. Again, my approach to depression/addiction (and to life in general) is: 1) To seek and find beauty… Continue Reading →
A fourteen year old girl died while attending a concert at which she was taking heavy doses of Ecstacy. They coroner’s report indicated that her heart rate was more than double the normal rate. I didn’t know the girl, nor… Continue Reading →
I don’t know why some people end up lost within an addiction while others don’t. Nor can I say with any certainty that a given treatment plan will work. In situations of great complexity, of which addiction is one, there… Continue Reading →
I’m always talking and writing about how poetry can lift one’s spirit and assist in understanding a person’s place in the great Universe. But, when I ask groups to read and try to analyze poetry, it seems as though they… Continue Reading →
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