Melanie's Story of Addiction and Recovery
Melanie's Story of Addiction and Recovery
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She's also thinking about writing a book about her struggles that may help others avoid what she's been through. There are a series of FREE seminars called Addiction Answers that will begin in the Blair County area next week and are open to those …
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Around the town 2/21/13
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A New York Times film critic's pick, “Addiction Incorporated” is a strong and thought-provoking film that tobacco-prevention advocates find inspirational. For more information about the event, contact Brett Christian at 457-9824 or Gayle Shirley at 457 …
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Bang Bang Boom Boom: Chatting with Beth Hart, The Devil Wears Prada's Mike …
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The Devil Wears Prada's Mike Hranica wrote a book? And it's called One & A Half Hearts, looking back on the creation of the …. I kind of self-medicated, which led me into a lot of problems with drug addiction and whatnot. Then I finally just had to …
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What are stages of change and how do they apply to addiction – Stages of Change’ was developed by Prochaska & DiClemente. It basically was a basis of research about cigarette smoking literature, and it helps cognitive behavior therapists, in particular, understand the motivation of an individual who’s coming in for treatment. The first stage in the ‘Stages of Change’ is called precontemplation, meaning the client just says, “Well, I don’t really think I have a problem.” In the twelve steps of the disease model, we call that denial. “I don’t really have a problem. You think I have a problem, then that’s your problem.” The next stage is contemplation. Contemplation is, “Yeah, I’ve got a problem, but I don’t know if I want to do anything about it.” That’s often the case. Lots of people come in and say, or they say to their spouse, “I know I have a problem, but I don’t know if I really want to go through all the misery, or all that stuff to stop.” Some people stay in the contemplation phase for years. Sometimes they even go to the grave in the contemplation; they never even evolve out of it. Then the next stage, if there that balance beam of the contemplation phase eventually tips it up, is that they’ll then go into the preparation. In other words, they’ll pick up a self-help book, or they’ll maybe go to a therapist and start to learn about the resources that are available to discontinue this behavior. If that’s successful, they’ll move on to what’s called the action phase, with action being doing something. They stop gambling. They stop …
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