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The title says is all. Excellent article for those who have been through substance abuse.
"Didn’t he realize that nobody would ever love him the way I did? Was it because I was an addict? Didn’t he realize that it’s because I’m an addict that I love so hard?"
Read MoreThis is a short piece, with a letter of response. My point in posting this is that we are still very much in the infancy of video gaming and the internet.
Read MoreI post this as many people feel that addictions--substance abuse in particular--are physically induced. Yes, and no. But mostly, no.
"Professor Alexander argues this discovery is a profound challenge both to the right-wing view that addiction is a moral failing caused by too much hedonistic partying, and the liberal view that addiction is a disease taking place in a chemically hijacked brain. In fact, he argues, addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you. It’s your cage."Read More
What I take from this interview is that focusing on your breath, is helpful for so much of what ails us, including, but not limited to, addictions.
"I got wind of an ex-addict doing breathwork with people at various rehabs with supposedly rave results. His name is Nathaniel V. Dust and he is not your typical hippie weirdo. Far from it. When I showed up at his house to sit down with him, he was wearing a pink tie, pink socks with the words “sock whore” and cats on them and a plaid suit jacket with a pink handkerchief peeking out of the pocket. Oh, and he has a mohawk."
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