Posts Tagged ‘family disease of addiction’
Guest Author William G. Borchert Shining the Light on Family Addiction
Today’s guest author, William G. Borchert, is shining the light on family addiction. As readers of BreakingThecycles.com well know, this disease affects not only the person who has the substance use disorder (aka addiction), but it affects their families. Together, they represent approximately 120 million Americans – that’s roughly one-third the American population! So it is with great…
Read MoreBringing the Family Voice to Addiction and Recovery – Kathy Frasier
It’s not uncommon to learn of the ravages of the addiction from the perspective of the person struggling with this chronic, often relapsing brain disease. But hearing if from the family side – the moms, dads, sisters, brothers, cousins – is a less common occurrence. So when I read Kathy Fraiser’s FB share following the Christmas holiday,…
Read MoreSaving Jake | Interview with Author D’Anne Burwell
D’Anne Burwell’s smart, athletic son—raised in a loving and prosperous home—begins abusing OxyContin as a teenager, and within a year drops out of college, walks out of rehab, and lands homeless on the streets of Boulder. Struggling with fear, guilt, and a desperate need to protect her son, D’Anne grapples with her husband’s anger and…
Read MoreSharing the Family’s Side of the Disease of Addiction
Addiction affects approximately 23 million Americans. Those grappling with this chronic brain disease, in turn, affect some 120 million others – the parents, siblings, spouses, grandparents, aunts, uncles, children, in-laws, significant others and close friends of those who struggle. To raise awareness about the family side – not as a competition for which side has…
Read MoreMaster of Manipulation – the Disease of Addiction
If you live with and/or love a person with the brain disease of addiction, you can probably relate to this poem I wrote several years ago. I know that until I finally understood addiction for what it is – a chronic, often relapsing brain disease, I never saw the real puppeteer pulling all of our strings…
Read MoreFamily Disease of Addiction – Expand Health Care to Treat Both Sides
Treatment of the family disease of addiction would greatly benefit if treatment for both sides – the family AND the addict | alcoholic – were FULLY covered under health care insurance. Why? Because one often contributes to the other and both contribute to the continuance of the cycle, passing it from one generation to the next.…
Read MoreMothers Who Love an Addict | Alcoholic
Mothers who love an addict | alcoholic have it doubly hard in my opinion. We not only try to help the person with the drinking | drug abuse problem and/or addiction, we try to keep our non-drinking | non-drug abusing children safe in all manner of ways. We don’t want them to know what’s really…
Read MoreRecovery Resentment
Recovery resentment – the reason you still feel angry, lonely, hurt, and raw when your loved one is finally in recovery. Author Carolyn Hughes explains. The following is a guest post by Carolyn Hughes, a freelance writer with special interest in alcohol issues. Carolyn is currently writing The Hurt Healer, a novel based on her own…
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