Categoría: Sober living

This type of on-going trauma is generally referred to as Complex PTSD or C-PTSD. Many Adult Children are constantly on the alert, surveying our environment – whether we are doing it consciously or unconsciously. The full list of characteristics can...

Learn about various childhood trauma tests, understand their implications, and discover steps towards healing and recovery. Dr. Lin has held an academic appointment at UTHealth, and he has spent his professional career supervising and teaching medical students and psychiatry residents....

Over time, the 12-steps will become a fully integrated part of your life, beliefs, and values. Meeting new people and building new relationships is normal in your first year of recovery. Many recovering addicts had friend groups made up of...

Relapse prevention and other treatment strategies may consider the person’s environment, level of motivation, severity of their addiction, co-occurring medical and mental health conditions, and other factors, too. Addiction is a brain disease and, as such, may involve disruptions to...

The minds behind the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) find the term carries too much negative connotation and is ambiguous. The World Health Organization also wanted to replace the medical designation of “addiction” with the word “dependence” back...