Addiction to Dangerous Relationships
The most wonderful date of your life may become your nightmare if you’re in the sights of a dangerous man. He may be charming and exciting – boasting about his exciting and lucrative career, but in reality, his profile is not how he makes it appear.
Your grandmother used a term, “bum’s rush” to describe someone who shows up and takes over your life, ruining it before disappearing. Yesterday’s bum is today’s modern predator – and some of these men (and women) have worked hard to attract their prey. (more…)
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February 12, 2008
How to Quit Smoking - Go to a Doctor or Counselor
Although smoking, like all addictions, is a physiological problem, it has a profound effect on a person’s psychology as well, and may in fact be partly caused by psychological factors. This means that it is extremely difficult for people to quit smoking on their own - they have to battle against their body and their mind. Some people are strong enough to do this, but for most of us, when faced with the dilemma of how to quit smoking, it makes more sense to resort to outside help from professionals. They can tell us, right away, that cutting back on smoking is not going to help, and that we need to aim for total cessation.
While our friends and loved ones can certainly try to help us give up our cigarettes, pipes or cigars, they usually put their efforts into the physiological side of things. They try to control our actions, but they find it much more difficult to help us overcome our psychological dependence on nicotine. Even then, it is very difficult to control an adult (or even a teenager) if they really haven’t made the final decision to quit. Most people can find as many moments as they need to slip off somewhere for that cigarette or pipe. So, unless the “addict” has made up their mind, there really is little our friends can do, which is another reason why we need to consult a professional if we really want to know how to quit smoking. (more…)
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February 10, 2008
Food Addiction Recovery, or Aiming for Abstinence
Food addiction is always a very unpleasant situation, not only for the sufferer, but for his or her family and friends as well. For that reason everyone involved and affected will be on the lookout to help the sufferer treat the addiction as early as possible, since, the longer it lasts, the more difficult it becomes to reverse. Food addiction recovery can consist of many different things, including a plan outlining exactly what to eat and when - and when not to eat anything.
Physical and Psychological Aspects of Food Addiction
In most cases, it is a good idea to try to give up entirely the food you are addicted to - in fact it is probably the surest way to succeed with your food addiction recovery. Food addiction brings with it both physical and psychological problems and some people cannot return to their normal, healthy life, both physically and mentally, until they succeed in achieving total abstinence from the foods they crave for. (more…)
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February 8, 2008
How Can You Reduce Sugar Cravings?
Sugar cravings are probably much more common than most of us realize. It would perhaps come as a surprise to you to hear that the average American consumes as much as 160 pounds of sugar a year. This is a big increase on the amount consumed even only 15 or twenty years ago and while consumption in less developed countries is obviously lower, it is also on the rise even there. But perhaps the worst thing is that, for some reason, sugar is perhaps the one food that it is easy to develop cravings for - and difficult to then get rid of those cravings. Which brings us to the question in our title - how can you reduce sugar cravings? (more…)
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February 6, 2008
Learn How to Overcome Food Addictions
If you are a sufferer, you’ll probably be well aware that making the effort to learn how to overcome food addictions will be well worth it, both for your physical and mental health. We will see in this article how the most important thing you can do is to begin identifying your problems as a first step to be able to combat them. You need to learn to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy relationships with food, to understand the causes of food addictions and the triggers that can make your craving appear. And, finally, you need to put into practice what you learn from observing other people who also suffer from food addictions.
Once you have become aware of your problem, the next step is to take a conscious, active attitude towards it and towards your relationship with food - make sure you learn to recognize the danger signs and do not give in to them. At first, this process will be wholly conscious, but after some time it should become habit. As with many addictions, half of the battle is actually realizing that you are a sufferer. The other half is perhaps equally divided between will-power and action. (more…)
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February 4, 2008
Are Food Addiction Treatment Centers the Answer?
According to some medical opinions, food addiction can be just as damaging for a person’s health, both physical and mental, as drug or alcohol addiction. Food addiction can be defined as not being able to control a constant craving for a particular type of food. If the sufferer cannot get the food he craves for, he might experience withdrawal symptoms. Obviously, when the problem has got this far, the person suffering it needs treatment – and the sooner the better. The problem is – what types of treatments are available and what are the best? Is a food addiction treatment center the answer in these cases? (more…)
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February 2, 2008
Food And Drug Addictions: What are the Similarities?
Both food and drug addictions can have devastating effects on people’s lives. In this way, they are obviously similar. The methods used to treat the two different types of addictions can also at times show striking similarities. However, there are other facets, both of the addiction process itself and of its treatment, where food and drug addictions are very dissimilar.
Wide-Ranging Addiction Effects
Both Drug and Food addictions can have a profound effect on many parts of an addict’s life. It can seriously damage a person’s physical health and have a profound effect on their lifestyle. (more…)