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Addiction: Disease or Defect?
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Awhile back, the Washington Post ran an excellent article by Maia Szalavitz on what exactly addiction is, and how we should go about treating the Britneys and Lindsays out there. To get to the article, click here. Below are excerpts: Today’s most widely accepted definition of addiction — used in psychiatry’s latest edition of its…
My Saving Grace Moment
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Also fitting for Advent, is the “Saving Grace” moment in my life: that specific point in my past in which I took inventory and made a few changes. I describe it in a blog post I wrote last year this time, “Gabriel and Directions.” Click here if you want to read it.
Depression and Addiction: A Very Bad Combo
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As a recovering alcoholic with bipolar disorder, I’m always looking for information on how the two are related, which illness is responsible for what behavior, and how their treatments might collaborate or clash. One of the best overviews I’ve read on the relationships between addiction and mental illness is written by J. Raymond DePaulo, Jr.…
Ready to Clean Up Your Act?
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Back in January, when we make New Year’s resolutions to clean up our act, I read this article in the Washington Post by Anita Huslin about understanding some of our bad habits. And then I filed it with the rest of my clutter, something I’ve been trying to get a handle on since, oh, grade-school.…
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