Codependency: I Love You to Death

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Is it possible to love someone too much? Is it possible to literally love someone to death? An article posted by All About Life Challenges discusses how loving relationships can easily turn into enabling relationships characterized by codependent behaviors when addiction is involved.  “The relationship between enablers, addictions, and codependency is a perplexing and arduous [...]

DRUG-USE STAGES

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Drug use can be viewed as a series of developmental stages: initiation, escalation, maintenance, discontinuation (sometimes including relapse), and recovery.  Some clients go from one stage to another, others do not. Some relapse many times, whereas others bypass relapse altogether. INITIATION Drug experimentation typically begins during adolescence, in social settings during middle or high school. Teens rarely [...]