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What to Do When a Loved One Doesn’t Want to Seek Treatment
It can be very painful to watch someone you care about battle with a substance use disorder. It’s even harder when they won’t admit they have a problem and don’t want to get treatment. If…
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How to Cope With Recovery Burnout
The road to recovery can be time-consuming, long, and winding at times. If you ask someone who is currently on their recovery journey about their experience, you may notice that it requires a lot of…
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5 Things You Should Know About Depression
Depression is an extremely serious but treatable illness. It has no specific gender, age, or ethnicity that it chooses to overtake – it truly can happen to anyone at any point in their life. Unfortunately,…
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Five Ways to Help Your Loved One Stay Sober
Addiction is a family disease. It affects each person within the family dynamic in a unique way. If your loved one is battling an addiction, you’ll want to do everything possible to help them succeed…
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Getting Help for a Behavioral Addiction
Similar to a drug or alcohol addiction, behavioral addiction is a repeated activity that continues despite negative consequences. A person who struggles with a behavioral addiction engages in an activity, such as compulsive gambling, shopping,…
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy approach that is an effective treatment for victims of past trauma and distressing life experiences. It can be hard to heal from past trauma, and if…
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Cancer Survivorship and Guilt
Cancer isn’t over when you receive the news that there’s no evidence of disease. Life after cancer doesn’t exist because experience with cancer never truly goes away. The emotional trauma that comes with cancer is…
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Life After Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment
Admitting you have an addiction is life-changing. A person’s path to recovery begins when they realize they have no control over their use of alcohol and substances, they take action, and they seek help. Asking…
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Safe Conversations: Design Your Comfort Zone
Quarantining during COVID-19 is stressful and tedious. Being in self-isolation while going through treatment means that being physically present or active in groups and going to appointments is impossible. Strict guidelines for self-isolation can be…