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Sunday, October, 25, 2009

Addiction And Recovery

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Brain change: New frontiers in addiction recovery

By Jim Christopher Health Expert

There's been a lot of exciting programming on public television lately about our brains and how we can change them.

 

 

Years ago, after writing my fourth addiction recovery book Escape from Nicotine Country: How to Stop Smoking Painlessly (quitnicotinenow.net), I'd - a few years later - toyed with titles for a new book project about recovery from all addictions.

 

 

Brain Change and Romancing Liz were two titles I came up with and still may use (along with explanatory subtitles). Harking back to ...

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Sexual Addiction
Sexual addiction, sometimes also called sexual compulsion or sexual dependency, is “any sexually-related compulsive behavior, which interferes with normal living and causes severe stress on family,... Read more »
Pornography Addiction
...pornography with the click of a button, they can access more extreme sexual content easily.   Pornography addiction is seen more often in males than in females, although this certainly does... Read more »
Stress Part 9: Can Bad For You Be Good For You?
...life-spans than the general population. But clearly, a lot more is going on than a simple craving or an addiction. Otherwise, most of us (I have never smoked) would have quit years ago.So what is... Read more »
Stress Part II: When the Brain Overreacts
...distant future. The take-home message for us in the here and now is that the brain science informs our recovery. We don’t have to understand the brain science. It is enough that we simply... Read more »
Stress Part 8: Working With Anxiety
...as Valium and more recent entries such as Xanax and Ativan. Because of their potential for abuse and addiction, they are generally prescribed on a PRN, or as-needed, basis.Dumb meds strategy is... Read more »

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