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THINKING ABOUT REHAB?
I just had occasion to reformat my novel Saint Mary Blue and make it available again as both Kindle and trade paperback. To do that I had...
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The NA meeting was large for our rural area, 20 to 25 recovering addicts on an average Saturday. Those who attended regularly took the num... -
So, we did the world this big favor, stopped using alcohol and other drugs, holiday time is coming up, and twin dreads begin camping out in ...
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"'Tis the season to be jolly . . ." is all the recovering addict in seasonal misery mode needs to hear to amp up the gloom an...
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There is no research, none, that indicates that people with substance abuse or addiction problems require a surfeit of platitudes for recovery. Intuitively, I might even think the opposite was true. Why is it that recovery is inexorably associated with truisms, platitudes, and moral cliches? Nothing is more discouraging than the thought of being subjected to mental pablum during a recovery period.
The fact is that recovery from addiction requires a large number of changes in both thinking and acting. The programs that have been successful have found that the repetion of certain truisms works better than hoping for enlightenment. "One day at a time," for one example. The disease insists that the addicted take the entire world all on at the same time because failure is assured, and failure is the path back to using. If you want to recover, you hang onto that one day at a time because, platitude or not, it works.
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