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"Hope for Recovery" is a series of podcasts in simple language to help the common person understand the baffling disease of addiction. The series doesn't just point out the problem, but also gives concrete solutions and specific strategies for recovery for not only people who are addicted, but for those who are affected by other persons who are addicted. The beginning of hope is a clear understanding of this illness.
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This episode is a review of of the second half of the material covered in the first 25 previous episodes. We are hoping to hear from you! Please send us question and suggestions for other episodes to pastorkal2015@gmail.com. If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email and I will be happy to send you a private reply.
This episode is a review of about half of the material covered in the 25 previous episodes. We are hoping to hear from you! Please send us question and suggestions for other episodes to pastorkal2015@gmail.com. If you have any questions, feel free to send us an email and I will be happy to send you a private reply.
Until addiction takes its rightful place with all other treatable diseases, our culture will be in trouble. Until we, as a culture, stop looking for shortcuts in dealing with feelings and problems, we will be in trouble. We must let people know that there is not only pain in recovery, but also great joy.
When working with addicted persons it is essential that they get the sense that your are treating them as sick people who can get well and not as bad people who need punishment. Many professional people don't like working with addicts, because they lie so much to cover up bad behaviors, but this is just a symptom of the disease and must be treated as such. To be able to both comfort and support is essential.
Not all addictive behaviors can be prevented, but it would certainly be better to prevent problems than to wait and have to solve them. Parents can help with prevention in their children by letting them know their genetic predisposition to addictions, by letting them suffer the consequences of their behaviors and by giving correct information about addiction in a calm, rational manner. Showing children how to handle emotions naturally goes a long way towards chemical health
One of the fastest growing addiction problems is computer/game/iPhone addiction, particularly among younger people. The same pleasure centers of the brain light up from excessive gaming as they do for the use of alcohol and drugs. These computer games are so fun, colorful, and splashy that it makes the real world seem dull and makes them very enticing.
Food addiction is has also been called eating disorders and is comprised of four main problems: 1) Overeating, 2) Bing eating disorder, 3) Bulimia Nervosa, and 4) Anorexia Nervosa. Eating disorders have now overtaken tobacco addiction as America's worst health problem.
Tobacco addiction is not just a "bad habit", but is one of the most deadly and difficult addictions anyone can have. There is an unusual drug combination os stimulant and sedative in tobacco that makes it very seductive. Plus, there are dozens of rituals in tobacco use that imprint readily on the brain. There are many specific actions that can make quitting much easier.
Because relapse is always waiting, it is imperative for an addict to have a program of recovery. This is not just a hope or dream or desire, but a specific plan of action that includes measurable, observable action with some built-in accountability.
Relapse is part of the disease of addiction. It is not a question of whether an addict might relapse - they all will relapse unless there is a program of daily spiritual growth that prevent the relapse for one day. Recovery is not an event, but rather a process that requires a plan and working for that plan every day.
Addiction is a spiritual disease, because it requires more power than the person has in themselves. Some people have religious background that may either help or hinder their spiritual growth. Religious background that is judgmental and view addiction as a sin never helps recovery, but religion can be very helpful if it is healthy.
Cross dependency is a term that means that an addict doesn't really quit their destructive behavior - they just switch to a different addictive agent. For example, switching from whiskey to beer or from beer to marijuana or from street drugs to prescription drugs. This is intended by the addict to look like change, but it really is not.
Addicted persons never get help until things look desperate, so sometimes those who love an addicted person can help them by actually making things worse. There are legal interventions, employer interventions, medical interventions, and family interventions. All of these can be useful to push the addicted person towards help.
Diagnosing addiction is sometimes a difficult thing to do. Certain signs such as: increased tolerance, relief use, blackouts and unplanned usage. The easiest way to tell if something is a problem is to look at what problems the usage causes in major areas of life such as: relationships, legal, financial, health, and work. That which causes a problem is a problem.
The term "enabling" can have a positive meaning in that we might be helpful to another person and enable them to have success. However, family members and friends of addicted persons often slide into desperate enabling that actually just help to keep the addict sick by covering for her and take over her responsibilities.
There are various roles that are leaned in an addicted family to keep the game going. There might be a family hero, a family foul-up, a lost child, and a jokester. All these roles play a part in maintaining the status quo so that the addict in the family can keep on using their addictive agent.
Children who grow up in dysfunction of some kind have struggles from that training that can have a very damaging effect on their adult lives. They learn survival skills that oftentimes don't translate well for the rest of the world. The shame that is part of an addicted household usually causes poor self-image to the children in that home.
Codependency is a term that describes damage done to persons who are close to an addicted person and are affected by their disease. Addicts are afflicted with the disease of addiction, but codependents are affected by that disease. In fact many times those around the addict are affected mare than the addict, because they are going through thew pain without any anesthesia, while the addict is anesthetized.
At a time of grief or loss people are oftentimes looking for something to numb the pain and addictive agents seem logical, but this is not a healthy thing to do. There are many losses besides death that people will experience such as: loss of job, divorce, aging and death of a pet. The stages of grief must be worked through without chemicals on board to eventually bring healing.3+20...
The emotion of fear is the level at which we really live. Fear of failure, rejection, intimacy, death and fear of the unknown all prevent us from living life to the fullest. Using addictive agents seems to relieve these fears for a while, but it does not work for long and the fears are doubled when we fear others will find out what we are doing.
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