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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
A shift in our collective thinking is taking place with regard to the treatment of alcohol addiction. There is increasing awareness that Alcoholics Anonymous is simply inappropriate for many people. Furthermore, increasing numbers of treatment centers are distancing themselves from the 12 steps model in their advertising.
Categories: Alcohol Rehab
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Tags: alcohol addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholism, alcoholism treatment, twelve step
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
I had remarried a couple of years before and was busy at home trying to establish a new consulting business. We had a typical family life with three teenagers at home with lots of distractions and noise; it was often hard to concentrate on my work.
My frustration was showing up in ways that I was barely aware of. One day my wife said to me very calmly, “Neill, it’s bothering the kids how you are snapping at them. If you don’t do something about it, you will end up as a lonely, grouchy old man.”
What hit me was the thought that my family would remember me as a grouch. I could not allow that to be my emotional legacy. The internal shift was instantaneous.
Categories: News, Parenting, Self Growth
| Tags: emotional, emotional legacy, family, family life, legacy, my family
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
Life is full of events that lead to personal distress. And stress can build upon stress which can lead to marriage problems. If one of you drinks to reduce stress, in time the drinking itself causes stress and becomes a major roadblock to solutions.
Quite naturally, you look around to see what’s causing your distress and the only person there is your spouse, so you instinctively blame him or her for upsetting you.
Categories: Alcoholism and Marriage, Marriage, News
| Tags: addiction, alcohol-abuse, blame, distress, love and respect, Marriage, marriage problems
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
The fact is that many people have overcome an addiction to alcohol on their own without ever entering an alcohol treatment center or going to group meetings. I read recently that you’re three to six times as likely to be successful if you stop drinking alcohol on your own as you would be by going to a traditional treatment program…
Categories: Alcohol Rehab, Alcoholism and Marriage, Self Growth
| Tags: alcohol, alcohol treatment centers, alcohol-abuse, alcoholic, Alcoholism, drinking-problem, impaired driving, stop drinking, stop drinking alcohol
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Posted by Dr. Neill Neill
September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month. As I pause and look back over the alcohol-related deaths and injuries of people I’ve known, I feel sad that it is still happening. A driver’s speed with alcohol took our mother away from my three younger brothers and me when I was 16. She left the house. Within ten minutes there was a knock at the door. An uncle uttered the simple words, “Doreen is gone.” Video: “Everbody Hurts.”
Categories: Alcoholism, News
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