Love For An Addict
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So You Re In Love With An Addict
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Author : Heather O'Hara
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2020-11-05
So You Re In Love With An Addict written by Heather O'Hara and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-05 with Self-Help categories.
Addiction is an increasing problem in our society. While there are a variety of programs and “steps” that addicts can follow to work towards recovery, there is no rule book for us—the people who are in love with an addict. All of our journeys are different and yet, the same—filled with chaos, uncertainty, and confusion. This book may not hold any magical solutions to your challenges, but it just might provide you with the comfort and companionship that the author longe
Love Addict
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Author : Ethlie Ann Vare
language : en
Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-09
Love Addict written by Ethlie Ann Vare and has been published by Health Communications, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09 with Family & Relationships categories.
Neuroscience now shows us--in living color, thanks to PET scans and fMRI technology--that falling in love affects our brains precisely the same way as snorting cocaine. Award-winning author and screenwriter Ethlie Ann Vare already knew that; she's been addicted to both. She survived to tell the tale . . . with humor, honesty, and hope. Just because something is addictive doesn't mean that you will get addicted to it. But . . . if your stomach ties up in knots while you count the seconds waiting for a phone call from that special someone . . . if you hear a loud buzzing in your ears when you see a certain person's car (or one just like it) . . . if your eyes burn when you hear a random love song or see a couple holding hands . . . if you suffer the twin agonies of craving for and withdrawing from a series of unrequited crushes or toxic relationships . . . if you always feel like you're clutching at someone's ankle and dragged across the floor as they try to leave the room . . . welcome to the club. With a light touch and a sharp wit, Ethlie has enlisted some famous love junkies--including supermodel Amber Smith, movie star William McNamara, and comedienne Margaret Cho--and the top therapists and researchers in the field to help lead you from the dark of despair into the dawn of recovery.
Helping The Addict You Love
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Author : Laurence M. Westreich, MD
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-04-17
Helping The Addict You Love written by Laurence M. Westreich, MD and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-17 with Self-Help categories.
It's okay to love them. It's your right to help them. Addiction destroys people and can even end lives. When you know or suspect that someone you love is suffering from addiction you have two goals: getting your loved one into treatment and turning that treatment into full-fledged sobriety. Many addiction experts tell you that you have to disengage or risk being an enabler, a codependent bystander, in the wreckage of an addict's life; that you have to cut all ties or be taken advantage of financially and emotionally; that you have to protect yourself from your loved one, who isn't the person you used to know. But many friends and family members find it unnatural, even impossible, to turn away from a person they love who is at his lowest point, and refuse to believe that their addict is lost to addiction. Backed by his years of experience, Dr. Westreich guides you through the process of getting the addict you love on the road to treatment and recovery. He provides detailed scripts to lead you through pivotal conversations with the addict in your life, highlighting the words that he's found to be most effective and the words to avoid. With this book in hand, family and friends will know, for example, how to motivate their addict to recognize his problem based on the addict's own definition of what addiction looks like; how to "raise the bottom" that addicts so often must hit to a more acceptable level -- such as embarrassment, job loss, or ill health; and when to use gentle disagreement, quiet listening, or forceful confrontation to move the addict toward treatment, while managing and protecting their own emotions. Dr. Westreich also shows you how to engage a therapist in the process and provides methods for combating an addict's defense mechanisms. By outlining several treatment options, he helps you to weigh what each can and cannot accomplish, which is the most effective treatment for the kind of addiction you are dealing with, what each treatment requires of the recovering addict and the friend or family member, and how successful each is. Dr. Westreich also takes care to discuss the kinds of special situations you may face when the addict in your life, in addition to having a substance abuse problem, is a minor, is pregnant, has mental or medical diseases, or has other issues that are likely to affect recovery. Helping the Addict You Love is the guide that so many loved ones of addicts have desperately needed. Dr. Westreich supports you through the emotional process of helping the addict you love, tells you it's okay to want to help, and teaches you how to do so.
Confessions Of A Love Addict
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Author : Jill Williams
language : en
Publisher: Aberdeen Bay
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Confessions Of A Love Addict written by Jill Williams and has been published by Aberdeen Bay this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Interpersonal relations categories.
The author recounts her struggles trying to let go of a relationship that she knew was unhealthy, but to which she was addicted.
Addiction To Love
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Author : Susan Peabody
language : en
Publisher: Celestial Arts
Release Date : 2011-04-13
Addiction To Love written by Susan Peabody and has been published by Celestial Arts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-13 with Psychology categories.
Love addiction manifests in many forms, from Fatal Attraction-type obsessive lust to less extreme but nonetheless psychologically and emotionally harmful forms. The most common of these is staying in a bad relationship because of a fear of being alone-the "I hate you but don't leave me" relationship. In ADDICTION TO LOVE, recovering love addict Susan Peabody explains the variety of ways this disorder plays out, from the obsessively doting love addict to the addict who can't disentangle from an unfulfilling, dead-end relationship. Peabody provides an in-depth and easy-to-follow recovery program for those suffering from this unhealthy and often dangerous addiction and explains how to create a loving, safe, and fulfilling relationship. • A seminal work on unhealthy and obsessive behaviors in love, and how to change behavior to have a positive relationship. This third edition includes a new introduction and revisions to the text throughout. • Some symptoms of love addiction include love at first sight, excessive fantasizing, abnormal jealousy, nagging, and accepting dishonesty. • Even relationships with parents, children, siblings, or friends may be addictive-dependency is not always related to romantic love. • Previous editions have sold more than 40,000 copies. "Love addiction is a three-headed serpent that Susan Peabody adeptly slays. This is the quintessential book for any love addict or counselor needing to fully understand this highly prevalent and complex disorder. Susan detects and dissects aspects of this condition not comprehended in other books of its kind. Recovery is possible. This book makes it possible to take the succinct steps necessary toward a loving and reciprocal long-term intimate relationship." —Sudi Scull, M.F.T., C.N., psychotherapist and nutritionist
Recovery Workbook For Love Addicts And Love Avoidants
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Author : Susan Peabody
language : en
Publisher: Susan Peabody
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Recovery Workbook For Love Addicts And Love Avoidants written by Susan Peabody and has been published by Susan Peabody this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with Self-Help categories.
Addicted To Love
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Author : Stephen Arterburn
language : en
Publisher: Servant Ministries
Release Date : 1992-04
Addicted To Love written by Stephen Arterburn and has been published by Servant Ministries this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04 with Psychology categories.
What do these people have in common? Carol cannot free herself from the abusive relationship she has endured for ten miserable years. Ben is driven to secret sexual liaisons with one woman after another. Ginny spends every free moment of her day absorbed in romance novels. Carol, Ben, and Ginny suffer from the same problem. Psychologists call it the disease of the '90's-love addiction. Addicted to Love describes the many forms this addiction can take-from romance novels and relationships to spouse abuse and sexual acxting-out. Like drug addicts or alcoholics, love addicts get high from sex and romance, develop a tolerance for it, and need ever-greater doses to keep going. Stephen Arterburn examines why this addiction is on the rise, what it looks like, who it afflicts, and what you can do if you suspect that your spouse, friend, or family member may be suffering from it. With compassion and wisdom, Arterburn points the way to psychological and spiritual healing, to enable men and women to enjoy real and lasting intimacy.
Love And Addiction
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Author : Stanton Peele
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05
Love And Addiction written by Stanton Peele and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05 with Drug addiction categories.
In Love and Addiction, published 40 years ago and sold as a mass-market paperback on love, Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky laid out every major issue confronting the addiction field today. This pioneering classic, which was excerpted in Cosmopolitan and spawned the codependence movement, is the first-and still the definitive-book on addictive love. But it is much more than that; it is the book that explains why addiction is not what we think it is. Love and Addiction focuses on dependent love relationships to explore what both love and addiction really are-psychologically, socially, and culturally. Addiction is an overgrown, dependent, destructive relationship. Love is the opposite, a sharing, growth-inspiring one. The authors' analysis makes clear that an addiction is an experience that takes on meaning and power in light of a person's needs, desires, beliefs, expectations, and fears. By showing how addiction grows out of ordinary human experience, Peele and Brodsky offer a liberating understanding of all addictions-to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, food, gambling, shopping, electronic media, sex, or love. In 1975, Love and Addiction boldly proposed ideas whose truth is only now being recognized: Addiction is not limited to drugs, and drugs are not necessarily addictive. AA's 12 steps are not the last word in addiction treatment. On the contrary, practically oriented addiction treatments are more effective. The goal of addiction treatment and recovery is not abstinence to the exclusion of all else, but to build a life that rules out addiction. Love is the opposite of the self-protective constriction of addiction; it is the expansion of your spirit with another human being. Remarkably, all of these issues-the widespread application of the addiction diagnosis, the limited value of AA and its disease theory, the possibility that people can continue using but still eliminate addiction (harm reduction)-are as hotly debated today as when Peele and Brodsky first analyzed addiction forty years ago. Most remarkably of all, the answers Peele and Brodsky arrived at in Love and Addiction are only now being embraced by progressive thinkers in the field. "Destined to become a classic " Psychology Today proclaimed in 1975. Rereading Love and Addiction 35 years later, addiction researcher Rowdy Yates wrote that the book "still reads absolutely true as an understanding of addictive behavior." Reading today this clairvoyant analysis of the most challenging issues we face in the twenty-first century-the meaning of love and the cure for addiction-you will recognize both the current relevance and enduring value of Love and Addiction, now reissued with a new (2015) Authors' Preface, the Authors' Preface written for the 1991 paperback reissue, and a brief new introduction to each chapter. Otherwise, nothing has been changed in the original book.
Love Addict
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Author : Brianne Ellison
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-05-10
Love Addict written by Brianne Ellison and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-10 with categories.
Love Addict? Don't stop reading! For days I struggled to find the perfect words - the wow factor - for this description. I wanted to craft something that would prompt you to read this book immediately. The more I thought about it, the more I realized I couldn't think of anything better to say than the truth. My name is Bri, aka Lipstick Preacher, and I'm a recovering love addict.I can already imagine what you're thinking. A love addict? No, I'm not talking about being addicted to sex or having multiple relationships and partners. As a young girl and into adulthood, I obsessed over the idea of being in love and assumed it was an easy thing to attain if you were a decent person. No one in my life explained to me the importance of love and how much power it holds. I developed a deep desire to achieve love and had no idea where it came from. The desire for love is embedded in the core of our being, and when we encounter it, good or bad, it can shape the essence of who we are.After many failed relationships and encounters with the opposite sex, my idea of love became broken. This achy and painful feeling consumed my mind and eventually created a pattern of addiction. A love addiction.If you're reading this description, and you know love has dealt you a blow you don't know how to recover from, read this book. If you're someone who has ended or creates complicated relationships that have left you feeling like a different person, read this book. If you've never experienced love to a capacity that you know is real and true, read this book. If you want to love again but believe it's for everyone else, read this book.If you're in an amazing relationship but had some sucky ones in the past, and you find yourself sabotaging something good because of it, read this book. Hey you, Read this book! The End!
Loving An Addict Loving Yourself
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Author : Candace Plattor
language : en
Publisher: Being At Choice Consultants
Release Date : 2016-10-28
Loving An Addict Loving Yourself written by Candace Plattor and has been published by Being At Choice Consultants this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-28 with Self-Help categories.
Are you feeling exasperated and helpless about your family member's addiction? Are you at your wit's end, having tried everything you can think of to make them stop? If someone you love is engaging in addictive behaviors such as alcohol and drug misuse, eating disorders, smoking, gambling, Internet addiction, sex addiction, compulsive overspending, or relationship addiction, you are undoubtedly experiencing unpredictability in your relationship. Some of the most common emotions you will experience include: - Guilt and shame - Anger and anxiety - Confusion and powerlessness Whether the addict in your life is your spouse, partner, parent, child, friend, or colleague, the key to changing this reality for yourself lies in shifting your focus from your loved one's addiction to you own self-care. This book presents a dramatically fresh approach to help you get off the roller-coaster chaos of addiction, maintain your own sanity and serenity, and live your best life.