Blog Entries tagged 'alcoholics'

Long Damned Gone. A Blues for Battered Wives.

kenandjody@comcast.net — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Any man who attends Al-Anon meetings on a regular basis will hear stories of abuse told by women. as they effect a hard to look at vacant stare into the middle of the room. It is quiet at these times. Yes, we all learn that alcoholism is a disease, and we work hard at accepting that alcohol's first victim when it reaches the brain is usually judgement. We all know that this deadening of the humanizing chips leads to un [...]

Why Grandma Doesn't Get A DUI

kenandjody@comcast.net — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

We have all heard that liars figure and figures lie, but when we started delving deeply into the data about women and alcoholism we found many figures that just didn't...well...figure!

For example, when it comes to DUI's (or DWI's) the number of arrests never matches any data on the incidence of alcoholism among women as compared to men. The trends are certainly there; in 1977 only 8% of DUI's were for women, and by 2007 that percentage had [...]

Favorite Addictions of Codependent Men

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

What, me addicted?

Addictive behaviors work. They provide temporary relief for intense physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual agony. We co-dependents have our own favorite addictions.

To most of us, the word addiction brings to mind images of down and out souls whose lives are lost to drugs and alcohol. But that group actually represents only a fraction of the population whose lives are hampered by addiction. If we must do the numbers, it is g [...]

Alternative to 12-step recovery?

karima@aboutdrugrehab.com — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:18:34 +0100

In all the talk about recovery from addiction, all I ever hear about is meetings and 12-step. It seems that all recovering addicts and alcoholics have become religious and embraced Christianity - for the most part. Is there any other way? I think to myself that there has to be a non 12-step, non religious way to remain in safe recovery from addiction. I am not in recoverymyself, but I can certainly empathize with those who do not embrace organized religion. I kn [...]

My First Meeting

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Scott Peck's first sentence in his seminal work , The Road Less Traveled was "Life is difficult." Program people understand this. Only those of us who have finally been reduced to desperation understand the internal forces that have to work against a codependent man that finally drive him to surrender and seek help.

I must have really looked like the "deer in the headlights" as I sneaked into my first Al-Anon meet [...]