Check the clock in the corner of your computer screen. How long have you been on Facebook? Two or three hours? All day? Is your smartphone in bed with you? Are you constantly “liking” posts or scrolling through fabulous selfies of countless “friends”? How much time have you spent composing yet another carefully-crafted status, designed to show your wit and depth of thought? Close the Facebook tab, if you can. Now, take a look at the following...
Social Media Addiction.
I was featured in this report from NJ101.5 about social media addiction. http://nj1015.com/social-media-addiction-is-real-and-scary-but-treatable/
Your Addiction Treatment and Empathy — What’s the Connection?
Jake sat in the group for weeks before he shared. But he’d been listening to the stories, and noticed the heads nodding at the confessed lows, and sexually-induced highs, they all seemed to have in common. Slowly, Jake had begun to feel safe there.His group understood sex addiction and didn’t judge. He realized he cared about them. Wanted those guys to get better too. Something he thought he’d forgotten how to do. Jackie was starting to...
Why is Empathy a Key Component in Addiction Treatment?
Addiction is a beast. A cruel one. It doesn’t care about you. It toys with you. It doesn’t befriend with you. It draws you in. All along, it whispers “more” and “higher” and “mine.” Addiction has no empathy for you, your situation, or the messes it makes. And the longer the two of you are involved, the harder you find it to care about the people you hurt, or the people who love you. Why is that? Why does addiction seem to steal the caring...
Co-occurring Disorders: Is Your Addiction the Only Thing You’re Fighting?
When you know you’re addicted, it seems to eclipse everything. You miss so much. You miss the family and friends you used to value. The goals you used to strive for. The dreams you used to dream. The thing you crave is the only thing you want. The one need you have to meet. The wound you have to heal before you can do anything else. At least that’s how you feel. But underneath the addiction you know you’re fighting, there may be more going on....
You can Overcome Intimacy Anorexia — Start with These Steps
Intimacy anorexia has been described in lot of ways. None of them good. “A prison of my own design.” “Walls of withdrawal and withheld affection.” “…a marital cancer.” Emotional, spiritual and sexual intimacy are intentionally and perpetually withheld by the “intimacy anorexic,” regardless of the damage done to their partner (who generally longed for a more fulfilled connection), or to the relationship in general. The spouse who craves intimacy...
