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Dealing With The Mental Effects Of Prolonged Addiction

It’s much more than a choice. Addiction can best be described as a mental illness or a brain disease, a powerful compulsion that pushes patients to seek out drugs even if they know it’s detrimental and...

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Mental Health Month: Why Drinking While Depressed Leads Downhill

The great English poet G. K. Chesterton wrote: “drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” More than just a saying, there is a profound and applicable truth to this, even in the...

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Practicing Mindfulness in Recovery

Mindfulness is a lot harder than it sounds. A mindful state is, in essence, a state of calm wherein we can be reflective and consider our own thoughts and experiences within any given moment from a...

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How a Stressful Lifestyle Can Devolve into Addiction

It is generally understood that too much stress is bad for your health, but few people understand the complex relationship we have with stress, and how we need to account for subjectivity when talking...

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Ensuring Self-Care

I have been struggling with my depression and anxiety lately. Two feelings that have followed, and at times, plagued me for years. They’ve also taught me a lot about myself, my resilience, and what it...

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Are You Mentally Prepared for Sobriety?

For most people, there is a sizable gap of time between the moment you first decide you should probably start taking the idea of going clean seriously and taking the first step to going clean. The...

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Good Mental Health is the Basis of Sobriety

The brain reacts to addictive drugs. The reason these drugs are so dangerous is because a percentage of people who take them can’t stop. That doesn’t mean all people who take them can’t stop – as most...

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Improving Self-Esteem in Sobriety

Self-esteem, by definition, is about how a person sees themselves. Someone with a healthy self-esteem would be aware of their strengths and their weaknesses. They would know where they excel and what...

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Dealing With Stress In A Positive Way

Stress is a primitive, fight or flight, emotion. In early human history, it is what kept us alive. Stress is what got us moving when being chased by a lion, and what caused us to get out of bed to work...

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Mental Health

Mental health is an extremely important component of a person’s overall wellbeing. It affects our behavior, emotions, and thought processes. Mental illnesses are among the most common health issues in...

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