Contemplating Your Great Escape After Rehab
…which may still be present even after the recovering addict returns home. Because their feelings of shame and self-consciousness are so strong, recovering addicts often dream of leaving everything behind…
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Five Signs That You’re Addicted to Shopping
…problem. Hiding your shopping sprees. Things are not looking good if you buy compulsively, bust your budget, and then out of embarrassment or shame, hide the goods from your partner…
Why Barriers Delay Treatment in Addicts
…fear the embarrassment or shame that may come up when seeking help. External Barriers Can Be Improved Changing internal barriers to treatment is not easy to do because of how…
Giving Back in Recovery
…get clean, you might start to feel guilt and shame over what you have done in the past—how destructive you were. Volunteering and living a constructive life is the best…
Why Are So Many Doctors Addicted to Drugs?
…Don’t Doctors Seek Help? Due to the idea that doctors should be able to diagnose and treat themselves, they feel shame as well as pressure to hide their problems. Some…
Do You Suspect a Nurse Has a Substance Abuse Problem?
…so much guilt and shame over what I was doing, but I just couldn’t not take any. It was a compulsion. I was powerless over it, but I also had…
Professionals Treatment at Promises Welcomes New Executive Director
…Skipper Gender-specific groups Profession-specific support groups Relapse prevention planning Dr. Brené Brown’s Daring Way™ Shame Resilience Curriculum Dialectical behavior skills training Professionals Treatment at Promises also offers intensive diagnostic evaluations…
How to Help Your Kids Understand Addiction
…it is important to strike a fair balance. Make sure that your kids learn not to shame addicts or to treat them with disrespect. On the other hand, they should…
Ways You Can Help A Drug Addict
…can come to you.” When you’re trying to take care of yourself, nothing is more toxic to your healing than shame. Eve had many friends who struggled with addiction in…
A Drug-Addicted Nurse’s Story of Recovery: A Tale of Hope
…its pull. From then on, “every time I walked in the door of the hospital, it just called to me. I had so much guilt and shame over what I…