Posts Tagged ‘help for families’
Loving an Alcoholic – How to Find YOUR Sanity If You Do
Loving an alcoholic can be crazy-making because so little is really understood or acknowledged about the impacts on the family member or friend who loves someone who drinks too much. Yet it is the family member or friend who is on the receiving end of the drinking behaviors. In other words, on the receiving end…
Read MoreFirst Things First — When Recovery From Addiction Feels Overwhelmingly Difficult, Keep It Simple
Recovery from addiction. Just three words — Keep It Simple. Such a big meaning, such a confusing concept – especially for those living with the family disease of addiction. Questions swirl: What does a person do? How is it done? Can it possibly work? Where do I start? If it’s not me but my family…
Read MoreWhat To Do When Your Loved One is in Treatment
Your loved one has finally decided (or was left with no other option than) to seek treatment for their alcohol or other drug use disorder. You’ve long wanted and fought hard for this. But instead of feeling confident that all will be well, you feel a tumult of emotions. And perhaps the voice screaming loudest…
Read MoreHealth Consequences of Secondhand Drinking | Drugging
The health consequences of secondhand drinking | drugging (SHD) can be as far-reaching as those experienced by the person with an alcohol or drug use disorder. They are the impacts experienced by the family member or friend who is repeatedly on the receiving end of a person’s drinking or other drug use or substance use…
Read MoreAlcoholism is a Family Disease – Really
Alcoholism is a family disease I was told by the staff at the residential treatment center my loved one entered for his alcoholism. “Oh brother, you can’t be serious!” I countered. “And what do you mean, I’m a codependent, an enabler, and that I should get help. I don’t need help — he’s the one…
Read MoreChoosing to Forgive an Alcoholic
Choosing to forgive an alcoholic… Depending on how long you’ve been living and/or coping with a loved one’s alcoholism, this can be one of the most difficult concepts to grasp, let alone embrace – choosing to forgive your alcoholic. I’d repeatedly been told that alcoholism was like any other disease, and I wanted to (and…
Read MoreLoving Someone Who Drinks Too Much
Loving someone who drinks too much is not fully understood by most people. As a result, nearly 80 million Americans (not including the millions more worldwide) grapple with secondhand drinking. And the consequences of that can be significant. So what should a person who loves someone who drinks too much do? The short answer, “Help…
Read MoreAlcohol Use Disorders | Secondhand Drinking | ACEs – Trace Your Family ACEs Tree
Alcohol use disorders | Secondhand Drinking | ACEs — often, it’s a cycle. The behaviors of a person with an alcohol use disorder (AUD) cause secondhand drinking (SHD), and both AUD and SHD can change an entire family system. A changed family system can cause adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for the current generation of children.…
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